2. Synthesis Project about Mobile Learning
Kyle Lee
Contents
Section 1 - My Personal Learning Preferences 3
Section 2 - My Learning Pathway 4
Section 3 - Contribution of Activities 5
Section 4 - Top 3 Mobile Technologies 6
Section 5 - My Use of Mobile Technologies 7
Section 6 - Future Use of the Technologies 8
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My scores when I first took the survey were: 3
towards REF, 3 towards SEN, 11 towards VIS, and
Section 1 3 towards GLO. I’m not sure if much has changed
about the way I perceive my learning preferences.
I feel that I’ve always been pretty sure of who I am
My Personal Learning Preferences as a learner, but it is interesting to go through this
class and be active in things that maybe show me
something a little different than what I might have
thought about myself. I always knew that I was more
partial to learning through visuals, but I am also trying
to look at the details more now that I’ve taken this
class. Seems like it would be a great place for me to
grow as a learner.
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I feel that I began the class with the mindset that I
would be a learning Sage. I wanted to learn about
Section 2 new technologies and websites. I think that I was
very successful in doing this through the class. There
were many online resources that I was not familiar
My Learning Pathway with until using them in this class, and I think that
I will be able to use some of them throughout my
career. I didn’t change my pathway, but I do find
that I would like to implement what I have learned
more thoroughly in to the rest of my learning career
(becoming a Warrior).
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I think that the Social Bookmarking activity really
stuck with me. As a History major, I am in the middle
Section 3 of doing some in depth research that I feel I could
use help on. These days, a lot of research can be
done online through digitized archives, and if I
Contribution of Activities ever teamed up with someone to research specific
things, or needed help with my research, I can see
how Social Bookmarking will be very useful. It
makes me excited to think about being able to share
information and sources with other historians so
easily! I’m having hope that tablet computers will
be able to aid in research as well. Things like google
docs and other online sharing techniques will be able
to lend a hand when finding something in a physical
archive and needing to save the information and
share it right away.
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6. Synthesis Project about Mobile Learning
Kyle Lee I explored the use of ipads/tablets in the activity by downloading some
of the apps that were discussed. Blogging wasn’t really new to me,
even though I hadn’t done it on an iPad before. Apps like the spanish
lessons and Brain Anatomy were very fun to use though. I’m looking
forward to searching out apps like that in the future, and seeing the
development of more of them over time. I really only thought of apps
Section 4 as being entertainment, but after using some of the ones suggested in
the activity, I can see some new potential in the technology. Obviously,
being able to participate in the the apps like Brain Anatomy was really
Top 3 Mobile Technologies useful to me because I was able to see and almost touch something
that I was trying to learn about.
For ipods/mp3 players, I did not feel as successful at as the ipads/
tablets activity. I think it was still an interesting activity to do, but I just
felt that audio really is not a strong way for me to learn. I’m definitely
more of a visual person/learner, and listening to one-minute Mandarin
just didn’t really make a huge impact on me. I can see how it works for
a lot of people, but I would do better with even something as simple as
flashcards, because I would be able to store the visual memory of the
information.
Microblogs are actually very engaging to me. I’m usually a very patient
person, with a long attention span. But reading updates of short
information through things like the LA Times Fire News Twitter really
embedded information in to my mind. It was like bullet pointed info.
Although there were a lot of tweets to read through, and I can only
imagine how intense it was in real-time, I feel that I was able to grasp an
overall understanding of what was happening very easily.
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Kyle Lee
iPads definitely interested me the most of the mobile
technologies that we explored through the different
Section 5 activities. Although I found that microblogging
surprised me the most as a useful tool of education,
I still think that tablets are the most significant of
My Use of Mobile Technologies the mobile technologies discussed. I feel that I
would like to explore the use of microblogging more
though because I think that it can lend a hand in
really creating a lot of information for the future. As
student of history, I see every tweet as a new primary
source.
Again, iPads really did help me the most with my
learning. I felt that the technology lends itself
to my learning preferences perfectly. I am very
comfortable with sitting alone and learning new
things through educational apps. I like the idea of
being able to take a “silent reading time” but be
interacting with some sort of activity on a tablet
computer that is teaching me something new.
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I will continue to use education apps on the ipad
outside of this class. I think that there could be
Section 6 more apps out there that I would like to explore
as well. As a graphic designer right now, mobility
always helps me. The more that I can work at home
Future Use of the Technologies or capture inspiration for ideas when I’m walking
around town, the better I can be at my current job
as a designer. I think that things like microblogs and
social bookmarking are ways to share information
and collaborate with other designers.
iPad apps that allow me to learn are very exciting
to me. I plan on exploring these kinds of apps more.
Language lessons and visual-interactive apps could
be a new way for me to learn things that can be
in addition to class content or just for curiosity
purposes. MMOG’s are probably something that I
will not utilize. I understand the benefits through
the activities in this class, but I just could not really
connect with the MMOG’s personally.
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