Mobile Learning
Embracing Handheld Devices for The Post-Pencil Classroom
A Presentation By Rob De Lorenzo
Academic ICT Consultant - Toronto Catholic District School Board
http://themobilelearner.wordpress.com
Presentation Notes:
http://themobilelearner.wikispaces.com

Mobile Ubiquity

Introductory Questions

What Would
Aristotle Say?

What Would
Galileo Say?

What Would
Charlie Chaplin Say?

What Would Today’s Teacher Say?

Today’s Goal
Present potential uses of multi-purpose tools

The Most Popular
Mobile Communication Device of All Time

The Most Popular
Mobile Communication Device of All Time

Banning

What Do These Have in Common?
Adapted for Mike Sharples presentation: Disruptive Mobile Learning

Today’s Reality
Tomorrow’s Students

From “Teaching Homo Zappiens”
Technische Universiteit Delft

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Academic Research
Understanding Today’s World:
Horizon Report, 2008

Significant Trends: Horizon Report, 2008
The way we work, collaborate and communicate is
evolving and becoming more global

Significant Trends: Horizon Report, 2008
Digital, online culture
=
changes in scholarship

Significant Trends: Horizon Report, 2008
Smaller portable devices = more accessible content

Asus EEE PC OLPC XO
Ultra-Portable Laptops
Everex Cloudbook Classmate PC

Significant Trends: Horizon Report, 2008
The gap between students’ perception of technology vs.
that of faculty continues to widen

What is Mobile Learning?

Why Bother?

Because all of these...

Can all fit into here...

...and here...

...and here....

Engagement Matters!

What’s in it for the teacher?

Mobile Learning
Cell Phone

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion
3.3 Billion

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion
3.3 Billion
50%

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion
3.3 Billion
50%
21.9%

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion
3.3 Billion
50%
21.9%
26 years

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion
3.3 Billion
50%
21.9%
26 years
38 years

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion
3.3 Billion
50%
21.9%
26 years
38 years
Canada: 60%

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion
3.3 Billion
50%
21.9%
26 years
38 years
Canada: 60% USA: 75%

2007 Wireless Penetration Rates
6.6 Billion
3.3 Billion
50%
21.9%
26 years
38 years
Canada: 60% USA: 75% Italy: 122%

Why are cell phones a problem?

Is this what we are afraid of?

Mark Prensky
“What Can You Learn from a Cell Phone?
Almost Anything!”

Uses of Cell Phones in Education:

Trenton,
Michigan

Trenton,
Michigan

Do you see the
cell phone?
Welcome to St. Joe’s Radio Podcast ... Recorded by
Cell Phone!

Cell phones on field trips

Mobile Browsing
Is it really practical?

Opera Mini Web Browser Mobi Pocket Reader
Blogs and Wikis
Cell Phone and Web 2.0 Integration
You mean I can do that on a cell phone?
Microblogging with Twitter
Poll Everywhere
RSS Feeds

Mobile Learning
Apple iPod

Isn’t an iPod for entertainment?

Do you think that learning on an
iPod is impossible?

Uses of an iPod in Education:

Reach All Learners
45

Reach All Learners
Photos Lyrics Artwork Videos
Portfolios Transcripts Illustrations Visualization
Art History Lecture Speaker Documentaries
Research Notes Photos Demonstrations
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Letts, Iowa
&
New Jersey

Letts, Iowa
&
New Jersey

Letts, Iowa
&
New Jersey

Louisa Muscatine iPod Project

iPod for Language Instruction?

TCDSB iPod Project

TCDSB iPod Project

Librivox YouTube video
Manybooks.net
iPod and Web 2.0 Integration
You mean I can do that on an iPod
iTunes and Podcasting
Internet Access Image analysis - Flickr

Mobile Learning
PDA/Smart Phone

PDA’s or Smart Phones
for Kids?

Uses of a PDAs and Smart Phones in Education:

Scotland

Scotland

Learning2Go:
Mobile Learning Project

Liverpool John Moores University:
PDA in Environmental Education

Wi-Fi Internet Access Online Office Suites
eBooks via ManyBooks.net
PDA and Web 2.0 Integration
You mean I can do that on a PDA?
Web 2.0 Tools
Mobile Apps Mobile Blogging

Remember who we are
and what we are called to do.

In Conclusion
“You can never solve problems
with the same thinking that created them.”