2. Three Parts
Importance of Having a Sense of Community at School
Mobile Device Use by Today’s Young People
Using Mobile Devices for Team Building – Some Activities
4. . . . be academically motivated.
Solomon, Battistich, Watson, Schaps, & Lewis, 2000 in Schaps Creating a School Community
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar03/vol60/num06/Creating-a-School-Community.aspx
5. . . . develop social and emotional competencies.
Solomon, Battistich, Watson, Schaps, & Lewis, 2000 in Snaps Creating a School Community
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar03/vol60/num06/Creating-a-School-Community.aspx
6. . . . act ethically and altruistically
Schaps, Battistich, & Solomon, 1997 in Schaps Creating a School Community
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar03/vol60/num06/Creating-a-School-Community.aspx
7. Unfortunately . . .
Unfortunately, schools with a strong sense of community are fairly
rare. In fact, most schools that survey students' perceptions of
community wind up with mediocre mean scores. Of further concern
is the fact that low-income students and students of color usually
report a lower level of community in school than do affluent or white
students. Many schools appear to be ill-equipped to provide
community for the students who may need it most.
Schaps, Battistich, & Solomon, 1997 in Snaps’ Creating a School Community
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar03/vol60/num06/Creating-a-School-Community.aspx
9. commonality is the essence of community
Brown, R. (2001). The Process of Community Building in a Distance Learning Classes
10. commonality is the essence of community
Getting to “know” each other. Finding out where people lived, what
they did, their experiences, whether or not they had families and the
like was the “X” factor. Participants generally agreed that this should
have been a first step in community-building, but usually it was not
part of the formal coursework.
Brown, R. (2001). The Process of Community Building in a Distance Learning Classes
11. Responsible not only for one’s own learning
but for other learners, too.
Brown, R. (2001). The Process of Community Building in a Distance Learning Classes
13. . . .supports student’s development of collaboration skills.
Cortez et al., 2009; Sanchez et al., 2009 in Nouri, Cerratto-Pargman, Johan Eliasson, Robert Ramberg, Stockholm
University, Sweden (2011). Exploring the Challenges of Supporting Collaborative Mobile Learning.
14. . . . increases student motivation and engagement
Facer et al., 2004; Schwabe & Göth, 2005in Nouri, Cerratto-Pargman, Eliasson, Ramberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
(2011). Exploring the Challenges of Supporting Collaborative Mobile Learning.
19. Networked creators among internet users
65% are social networking site users
55% share photos
37% contribute rankings and ratings
33% create content tags
30% share personal creations
26% post comments on sites and blogs
15% have personal website
15% are content remixers
14% are bloggers
13% use Twitter
6% location services
20. Digital devices
Younger Older Silent G.I. All
Millennial Gen X
Boomers Boomers Generatio Generatio adults
s (18-34) (35-46)
(47-56) (57-65) n (66-74) n (75+) (18+)
Cell phone 94% 92% 86% 80% 69% 1% 84%
Laptop
computer 71% 67% 56% 46% 34% 16% 57%
Desktop
computer 52% 64% 62% 55% 49% 33% 55%
iPod or
MP3 player 69% 57% 36% 24% 10% 5% 44%
Game
console 63% 63% 38% 19% 8% 3% 42%
e-book
reader 12% 14% 14% 12% 6% 5% 12%
Tablet, like
iPad 14% 15% 8% 4% 3% 3% 11%
28. 2011 Horizon Report
For most people in the developed world, a mobile is always
close at hand and available with speedy Internet access
whenever it is needed. Mobiles are easy to use for web
browsing; much of the available content seamlessly adjusts for
optimal display on whichever device is used to access it.
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/sections/mobiles/
29. Social networks and social media have become more important in people’s learning strategies
Social media aids peer-to-peer learning by doing
33. Mobile Education Landscape Report
For the Education sector, mobile connectivity provides an
opportunity to offer new ways of teaching and learning that
ultimately will improve performance and results whilst at the same
time open up new markets for mobile operators across the world.
Mobile will increase access to up-to-date materials, will enable
collaboration and strengthen learner engagement.
http://www.ambientinsight.com/News/Ambient-Insight-highlighted-in-GSMA-reports.aspx
34. Social Collaboration and Mobile Learning
Social collaboration is the key to mobile learning. Social
learning and collaboration are important to successful learning
because the interaction engages and motivates learners.
http://www.trivantis.com/mlearncon2011-evolution-mobile-learning
42. About Me and You
Use a random number picker to select a number from one to 145 -
http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/
Answer the question that corresponds with your number on
http://www.teampedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=Question_Cup
Post your answer and first name to Wifitti
44. Texting Interviews
Randomly pair up.
Develop questions that you would ask to help you get to know someone better.
Text or email your questions and answers back and forth.
Summarize what you found out and post this information (along with a first name)
on a Sticky Note Board on Corkboard http://corkboard.me/4zRLXQB4OI
46. What are your values?
Chose your most important 3 values
from http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/list-of-values.htm .
Find objects in your environment that symbolize these values.
Take pictures of the objects using your mobile devices and emailed the photos
directly to a Flickr page set up for this purpose.
seen98toll@photos.flickr.com
48. Values Page on Flickr Site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57763362@N05/
49. A Texting Communications Exercise
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/a-texting-
communications-exercise/
50.
51. An Experiential, Mobile Driven Communications Exercise
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/an-
experiential-mobile-device-driven-communications-exercise/
52.
53. I was unaware of how much we use communication. The way
we think about things make all the difference in the
world, reminds me of “The glass is half full or half empty”. I
loved the fact that we spent most of the class time learning
about the others in the class. Learning about others helps us
communicate better as well as making the class more
comfortable!
Editor's Notes
Explaining how factor analysis was used to identify benefits of technology in academic success:A statistical technique used to reduce a large number of attributes into a smaller set of “factors” based on response patterns.A factor consists of a number of attributes that are rated in a similar way.Factor analysis is extremely useful when dealing with a very large number of attributes that would be cumbersome to analyze individually.The names of the factors are subjective and are intended to describe the common theme shared by all of the attributes within that factor.
Continuing with the factor analysis, there are relationships between selected technologies and certain benefits.
Overall, the average student spends at least some time engaging in about 21 different kinds of software applications and activities out of 40 they were asked about. Students use a variety of communication tools, but the most common ones have reached mass adoption.
Smartphones have a variety of academic uses, not just communication. More than one in three students (37%) have used an iPhone or another smartphone in one or more courses or academic activities in the past year. Forty-five percent of smartphone users have used these devices to look up information on the Internet in class.