This document provides tips and ideas for using mobile devices to promote hands-on language learning. It discusses using phones and tablets to complete tasks like taking photos, recording audio, and making videos to practice the four language skills. Specific activity ideas are presented, such as photo challenges where students find examples of shapes or locations, video projects like making commercials or book trailers, and audio projects like recording a collaborative story. Advice is offered on managing classrooms with devices and keeping students focused and on task. The goal is to engage students in active language learning through mobile technologies.

1. Hands-on Language Learning with
Mobile Devices
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2. “… young people are
reading and writing
more than we ever did
at their age, but they
are doing it using their
computers and mobile
phones.” - David Crystal
“On Myths and Mindsets,” 2012

3. Ideas for ⬆ the 4 skills with mobile devices
Ideas for using devices offline
Ways to promote active learning
Ways to manage a classroom full of devices
Key Takeaways

4. Introduction to Mobile Learning
Keeping Students Focused
Get-to-KnowYou Activities & Icebreakers
Photo Challenges
Video Tasks and Projects
Audio Tasks and Projects
Session Outline

5. Which types of mobile devices do you and
your learners have access to?

6. Make videos
Record
audio
Take pictures
Send messages
Add notes
Use maps
Play games
How many of these tasks have you completed
with your mobile device?
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7. Taking photos
Making videos
Recording audio
Session Focus

8. How do we keep students on task?

9. Tip! Time tasks

10. Tip! Pair or group students

11. Tip! Set up a mobile device area
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12. Tip! Outline clear
expectations and
consequences

13. Get-To-Know You Activities,
Mingling and Icebreakers
Less than 5 minutes
Gather information
Make connections
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14. Share an image with a peer & the story behind it
Icebreaker Example: Show-N-Tell With a Cell
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15. Follow up activity! Use the 5 senses and
adjectives to describe the image
Smell
Touch
Sight
Sound
Taste

16. Photo
Challenges

17. Photo Challenge Example: I Spy With My Device
1st Teach the shapes 2nd Students take a close up
photo of a real world
example
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18. Photo Challenge: I Spy With My Device
3rd Students show peers
who guess the object
4th Then peers guess the
shape

19. Photo Challenge Example:
Go On A Selfie Adventure!
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Pet, sibling, hero
Hobby, talent
Favorite book, place
Toy selfie adventures

20. Take a photo example of the vocabulary
Create a photo writing prompt
What photo challenges could you
give your students?

21. Video Tasks & Projects

22. Video Project Example: Invention Commercial
1st Students improve
an invention or
invent an app
2nd Storyboard the
commercial
3rd Produce a
commercial (1
minute or less)

23. Student Storyboard for MicroWow

24. News Broadcast
How-To/Do ItYourself
(DIY)
Book Trailer
What other video projects can help
students improve their English?

25. Audio Tasks & Projects

26. Audio Project Example: Record a Chain Story
1st Place students in a circle
2nd The first student receives the
mobile device and records his/
her beginning of the story
3rd Each student takes the device
and records their part of the
story

27. Listen to or produce podcasts
Create a radio jingle
Create sound effects for a
story (Novel Effect iOS app)
What other audio projects can help
students improve their English?

28. Which mobile learning tip or idea from this
presentation are you most excited to try?
Photo Challenges
Video Projects
Management Tips
Audio Projects
Icebreakers

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