Nmcinteractives Handhelds

Why Would Your Students Give Up Theirs, If the U.S. President Didn't? Using Mobile Technologies in the Classroom
Kimberly Conely, Wayne State University and Windsor University
Anne-Marie Armstrong, Wayne State University

Learning with Handhelds In the palm of your hand. Tuer’s History of the Horn-Book , 1896. Apple iTouch, 2008

Overview
Demonstration
Discovery
Experimentation
Storage and Retrieval
Accessibility
Instantaneous information
Small enough to be taken anywhere
Mobility
Not tethered to one place
Adaptability
User changes behavior

M-Learning defined
Uses PDAs, tablet PCs and digital cell phones
Focuses on instant messaging and wireless access pages (WAPs)
Modularizes and delivers information and small learning objects
Provides information anytime users need it
Transmits
… ubiquitous, pervasive, personal, and connected learning

Why
Use what you have
Extend learning outside classroom
Link people and places in real and virtual worlds
Expertise on demand
Support a mobile/global society
Support lifetime learning

M-Learning Examples
Mobile audio/SMS wikipedia
Historical/geographical tours
Citizen activism
Dissemination of JIT information
Collect real time data for research and evaluation
Video historians
Document solutions to problems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsPRpQfHYOY Geohistory project http:// www.mobisitegalore.com/index.html

A Walk Through 19 th Century NOHO

Mobile Devices and Types of Learning Behaviorism : Quick feedback or reinforcement can be facilitated through mobile devices. Constructivism : Enable immersive experiences such as those provided by simulations or games. Situated learning : Learners can take mobile devices into authentic learning environments or "context-aware" environments, such as specially equipped museums Collaborative learning : Provide a handy additional means of communication and a portable means of electronic information gathering and sharing. Informal/lifelong learning : Accompany users in their everyday experiences and become a convenient source of information or means of communication that assists with learning. Support/coordination : Provide just-in-time access to learning resources, news, information, planners, address books, calculators, and so forth. L. Naismith et al., "Literature Review in Mobile Technologies and Learning," 2004, http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/lit_reviews.htm#lr11 retrieved January 26, 2007 and quoted in Educause Quarterly, Vol 30, Nov, 2007

Demonstration
Audio/Video cameras/players
Tablet PCs
iTouch
Cell phone
Digital Camera
Capturing
Converting
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Video
Tutorials
Lectures/podcasts
Instructional material
Learning objects
Student projects
Student constructed learning
http://people.virginia.edu/~ejb9z/Weblog/category/mae230-statics/lecture-modules-mae-230/

Cell Phones
Audio/Video
Polling
Photo
Global positioning
Web browsing
Email
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =3YhWNiRRblY Now, 4G

Polling Which mobile device(s) do you own? Use your cell phone Choose new text message To:99503 Message: 12850 (cell phone) 12851 (iphone, itouch) 12852 (pda) 11629 (laptop) Send What is your recommended source for news and information? Use your cell phone Choose new text message To:99503 Message: 14873 and your answer Send http://www.polleverywhere.com

Educational Technology Survey, March 2009
… said they would like to use their mobile devices to communicate with classmates or other students via eMail, instant messaging, or text messaging; work with their classmates on projects at home or school; and play educational games. They also said they would use their mobile devices to do internet research, record lectures to listen to at a later time, receive alerts about upcoming homework and tests, or access their school's web portal http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/news-by-subject/technologies/index.cfm?i =57889

Results of Kim’s survey

What’s coming +1 (415) 376-7253

Netiquette Cell phones must be turned off before you order. The dog ate my homework! The sound of one hand clapping

Research issues and challenges:
Realize the dialectic relationship between personal technology and everyday learning
Accommodate the diversity of learners
Promote strong interdisciplinary research agendas
Online workers needs:
Awareness of challenges of multicultural online communities
Assess and analyze global thinking and trends
Reflect values of diversity, opportunity, and public responsibility
(Kurubacak, 2007)
New Media literacy http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = pEHcGAsnBZE #

Contact
Anne-Marie Armstrong
[email_address]
Kimberly Conely

Comparison
Wifi
Web browsing
eMail
Reference
Content delivery
Gaming
Storage
Retrieval
Cellular network $$
Web browsing
eMail
Reference
Content Delivery
Gaming
Storage
Retrieval
GPS
Field work, data capture
iPhone

Replacing OLPC
With contributors all over the world, DataDyne.org , a nonprofit open-source software organization, is working on health-care solutions that take advantage of the mobile infrastructures. Its EpiSurveyor mobile public health data collection toolkit can be used to collect health-care information, monitor infection patterns, and coordinate treatment. Working with the Vodafone Group Foundation and the U.N. Foundation, DataDyne.org recently completed a pilot of EpiSurveyor in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Zambia that is very promising.
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = EsPRpQfHYOY
While reading assigned books in the library, students use the Shuffles to listen to the audiobook version. The Shuffle has no screen and is wearable. So far, the devices have received enthusiastic support. One learner stated that having something in her ears actually helps her to focus on what she is reading. Media Specialist Kristi Alexander said she believes that if she can get students to like to read, their academic achievement will improve, and they will do better in their classes (Gibson, 2008).

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