The Future of Mobile Learning

ED 5670By: Jennifer Rumore

P.D.A.(No, It’s Not Public P.D.A.(No, It’s Not Public Display of Affection!)Display of Affection!)

What is Mobile Learning?What is Mobile Learning?

• Quick Video• Using PDAs (Palm

Pilot, Apple Newton), Web-Enabled Phones, SmartPhones, Blackberrys and iPods in the classroom

The Future of M-LearningThe Future of M-Learning

• Temporary Trend?• Fun-Driven

Edutainment Opportunity?

• Mass-Market?• Fundamental

Component of Lifelong Learning?

Promoting Active LearningPromoting Active Learning

• Spontaneity• Immediacy• Interactivity• Self-Evaluation

Strengthen Learner Strengthen Learner InvolvementInvolvement

• Just in time information• Ownership of learning• Mentor/Tutor Support

Empowering LearnersEmpowering Learners

• Motivation• Control• Portability• Recording Achievement

Enhancing the Learning Enhancing the Learning ExperienceExperience

• Informal Learning• Portability• Accessibility• Context Awareness

Some People Think M-Some People Think M-Learning…Learning…

• Is harmful to students’ grammatical development

• Is impersonal learning• Requires high self-discipline• Has too many technological and

software problems• Is not convenient because battery

life of PDAs

Teachers, Consider ThisTeachers, Consider This

• Vary Content & Interactivity

• Information should remain your focus

• Grab your students’ attention

• Use M-Learning with PDAs to SUPPLEMENT instruction

How can this helpHow can this helpTeaching Literacy?Teaching Literacy?

• Handwriting programs on touch sensitive screens

• Story Writing and Sharing Programs• Enthusiasm for technology helps

keep interest in other topics

Reading and Writing with Reading and Writing with PDAsPDAs

• Students can “see” setting• Students can explore responses to sounds and images

Some quotes from students using PDAsHow did using a PDA for literacy help your learning?

• It helped us by the sounds which help our imagination and by the pictures to see what it is like.

Charlotte

• Using a PDA for literacy helps me learn because I am discovering some new experiences.

Amy

A Short Quiz-Give at least 2 A Short Quiz-Give at least 2 examples of each!examples of each!

• How M-Learning enhances learning experiences

• 1)• 2)• 3)

• How M-Learning promotes active learning

• 1)• 2)• 3)

How Did You Do?How Did You Do?

• How M-Learning enhances learning experiences

• 1)Portability• 2)Informal Learning• 3)Accessibility• 4) Context

Awareness

• How M-Learning promotes active learning

• 1)Spontaneity• 2)Interactivity• 3)Immediacy• 4)Self-Evaluation

Oh, The Possibilities!Oh, The Possibilities!

• “By age 21, the average of digital natives will have spent over 10,000 hours on cell phones. More than 1.5 billion mobile phones are used in the world today, with a half a billion new ones sold every year. This is more than three times the number of personal computers (PCs), and today’s most sophisticated cell phones have the computing power of a mid-1990’s PC.”

• Dr. Steve Yuen

Works Cited

• (2008). Mobile learning. Retrieved July 29, 2008, from YouTube Web site: http://www.youtube.com/user/mobilelearning

• Crew,T.B., & Keane, L.B. (2006). Moving out of the classroom: using PDAs and tablet PCs in teaching and learning. University of S.C..

• Stone, John The practitioner's perspective. Retrieved July 29, 2008, from JISC Web site: http://www.elearning.ac.uk/innoprac/index.html

• Yuen, S (2008). Tech learning. Retrieved July 29, 2008, from Tech learning blog Web site: http://scyuen.wordpress.com/