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Are mobile technologies safe and educationally sound for use within our
classrooms ?
What mobile device do students have and what can they do?
Cokk
Collaboration
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Sharing information Find answers at point of
need
Marking
Synchronising documents across
devices
Access and create primary source
documents
Texting questions and answers
Text book access
Access learning
objects and games
Record video or sound tasks
Peer to peer sharing
Edit and create documents
Note taking
Access and send extra readings or
information
What can they be used for?
In clas
s
• Questioning by text messaging at point of need and to avoid ridicule• Can assist behaviour and concentration• Allows immediate feedback
At home
• Homework completed at a convenient time for student• Synchronise home PC with documents created at school• Create a truly global community- access to classmates, teachers and
the rest of the world,
In the field
• Group work with allocation of roles is possible• Recording of data in a variety of formats.• Finding answers to questions which arise at point of need.• Ability to link tasks to real life situations
How are mobile devices being used in other people’s classes?
Advantages for students
Learning and collaboration: Students can-
Learn at their own speed, not bound by confines of the classroom. Take responsibility for their own learning and prepare for their future.
Have truly differentiated curriculum: aimed at the students needs and strengths
Shape their own meaning using technology they understand and have available.
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Advantages for teachers
• Network with other teachers both locally and globally• Model what it means to be part of a team • Free up teachers time to work at point of need with
smaller groups of students.Professional
• Work from any location with access to students, their work and their benchmarks.
• Synchronise documents between locationsOrganisational
• Engage and extend students in a differentiated curriculum
• Prepare students for the working world they will enter• Improve student outcomes• Improve students enquiry skills
Student learning
Advantages for schools.
Reduce need to access computer
labs
Ensure that more often than not the technology works
Ability for teachers to embed
technology into lessons without a
great deal of support from IT departments
Limited amount of infrastructure
needed
No cost outlay to purchase equipment
Large servers no longer needed
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Disadvantages and barriers to use within our classrooms.
Pedagogy
Feelings of inadequacy
Lack of policy and procedure documents
Fear
Out of date scope and sequence
documents
Fear of losing
control
Organisation
Uncharted territory
Device limitations
Lack of education concerning appropriate
use
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Ethical and equity considerations
EthicalDecrease students
ability for independent thought
Limit higher order thinking
May increase or decrease attention to
task
Little research done on long term effects
Equity
Not all students own mobile devices
The one-on-one model maybe flawed
Should parents foot the bill?
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Support and monitoring of devices?
Can we? Should we? I s educati on a bett er way?
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Where to from here?
What questions we should ask?
What Readings we should do?
1. Ash, K. (2010, March 18th). Teachers Testing Mobile Methods. Education Week, 29(26), 26-27. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/detail?sid=b106587a-0bbf-4bf1-a398-9b5553f49959%40sessionmgr115&vid=3&hid=112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ehh&AN=48817229 This reading looks at the advantages and disadvantages of mobile device use in the class room and gives practical examples of how they can and are used.
2. McCaffrey, M. (2011, February). Why Mobile is a Must. THE Journal, 38(2), 21-22. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/detail?sid=1841e453-ccf5-4474-b40b-d30aa59622b5%40sessionmgr104&vid=1&hid=112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=iih&AN=58523891 McCaffrey examines how the use of mobile devises in the classroom can impart on student learning.
3. Morgan, H. (2010). Using handheld wireless technologies in school: advantageous and disadvantageous? Childhood Education, 87(2), 139-147. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA245884637&v=2.1&u=csu_au&it=r&p=EAIM&sw=w This article looks at the pros and cons of presenting learning material for students on mobile devices.
A. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using student owned mobile devices in our classroom?
B. Do they fit our pedagogy for teaching in the Primary Years Program?C. How would the use of these devices impact on our classrooms and would this
benefit our students?