Mobile Learning: What is it? How do you design it? How do you do it well?

1. Mobile Learning
What is it?
How do you design it?
How do you do it well?
Sandra Sawaya & Douglas K. Hartman
Michigan State University

2. Introduction

3. Merhaba Arkadaslar
Hepiniz Hosgeldiniz!

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8. Bilgi Teknolojisinin Beyin
Teknolojisi
From Knowledge Technology to Brain Technology

9. From Knowledge
Technology to Brain
Technology
Bilgi Teknolojisinin
Beyin Teknolojisi

10. Tesekkurler!

11. Tesekkurler!

12. Agenda
1. What is mobile learning?
2. What are key design considerations?
3. What are best practices?

13. What is “mobile learning”?

14. When most people think of mobile learning:

15. Kultepe-Karum, TurkeyHand Held Cuneiform
Tablet
Earliest mobile technology:

16. 2,000 BCE
Mobile technologies then & now:
2,000 CE

17. Today’s mobile digital technologies include:

18. What does “mobility” mean?
● physical mobility
● cognitive mobility
● social mobility

19. What does “learning” mean?
How learning is transformed:
spontaneous/personalized, etc….

20. So, what is “mobile learning”?
Mobile learning is “learning across multiple
contexts, through social and content
interactions, using personal electronic devices”

21. Design Considerations for
Mobile Learning Activities

23. full potential of mobile learning is realized when
a certain type of mindset, or habit of mind, is at
work in the planning and implementing of
student learning
Intelligence designed by Cole Casper from the Noun Project

24. TPACK
Technological
Pedagogical
Content
Knowledge

25. CONTENT
LEARNING
GOALS
What will students learn?

26. PEDAGOGICAL
APPROACH
What approach will best help
students learn?

27. TECHNOLOGICAL
AFFORDANCES
What technology will best help
students learn?

28. TPACK
Reproduced by permission of the publisher, © 2012 by tpack.org

29. 1. Content Learning Goals
• What is it that the students are to learn?
• What are the content learning goals of the
activity?

30. Content
Learning
Goals
Subject Matter
Knowledge
Procedural
Knowledge

31. Subject Matter Knowledge
• Concepts and facts learned in subject
areas in the curriculum

35. Common Core State
Standards
Next Generation Standards
for Science

36. Procedural Knowledge
• Approach one takes or thinking about
concepts and facts that are characteristic
of subject areas of the curriculum

37. Procedural Knowledge
• Learning to make, recite, use, explore,
name, criticize, calculate, find, interpret…

38. Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Scheme for organizing procedural learning
goals from least to most cognitively
demanding

39. Bloom’s Taxonomy

40. Bloom’s Taxonomy
More complex
Less complex

41. Remembering
Retrieving information
Searching for
information on a
smartphone

42. Understanding
Determining the
meaning of content
Describing the
differences between
states of matter after
watching a Khan
Academy video on
smartphone

43. Applying
Using a procedure to
transfer knowledge from
one situation to another
Using smartphone to
take pictures of
triangles and using
properties of triangles to
classify them

44. Analyzing
Taking content apart
and understanding how
the parts relate to one
another
Using smartphone to
take video of chemical
reactions then
comparing rates and
forming conclusions
about reactivity

45. Evaluating
Making judgments
based on criteria and
standards
Using screencasting
mobile device app to
provide your peer with
oral feedback on their
work

46. Creating
Putting pieces of
content together to form
a coherent, whole, and
original product
Using a drawing app on
your mobile device to
create a diagram of the
heart

48. Content Learning Goals
FIRST CONSIDERATION

49. 2. Pedagogical Approach
• How will the students go about
accomplishing the learning goal?
• What is the underlying strategy that
fashions the learning activity?

50. Skill Building
Practicing skills

51. Direct Instruction
Reading or
watching

52. Project-Based Learning
Investigating or
solving problems
situated in the real
world

53. Collaborative Learning
Working with a
team

54. Authentic Learning
Applying what is
learned in a real-
world context

55. Experiential Learning
Experiencing and
then reflecting

56. Learning goal ➔ Pedagogical approach
ALIGNMENT

57. 3. Technological Affordances
• What is it about this mobile device that
lends itself well to designing a robust
learning activity?
• What does this mobile app make possible
for learning that wouldn’t be possible
otherwise?

58. • Make possible a way of learning that is
unique
• Characteristics open up possibilities to a
large range of interactions between the
student, mobile device/app, and the
content

59. Affordances of mobile device
Basic ➔ Leading-edge

60. Basic Affordances
• Mobile devices are
simple input/output
devices
• Consume
• Record
• Capture

61. Consume
• Readings an e-book,
watching an
animation, listening to
a podcast

62. Record
• Typing notes during
an interview, audio
record a lecture,
video record a lab
procedure – recording
content that shows
some sort of
interaction

63. Capture
• Snapping a quick
picture or taking a
quick video –
capturing content that
does not necessarily
show some sort of
interaction

64. Compute
• Built in calculator.
Apps that convert
currency and
measurements, solve
trigonometric
problems…

65. Create
• Using the pictures,
videos, notes… to
create content that
showcases their
learning

66. Communicate
• Connecting student’s
device to other
devices and to

69. Content Learning Goal ➔ Pedagogical
Approach ➔ Technological Affordances
ALIGNMENT

70. Example
Science project

71. Study the water quality in rivers
and lakes around the state of
Michigan

72. Lake Michigan

73. Lake Huron

74. Lake Superior

75. Goals
Scientific Societal

76. Water Quality Project Goals
• Scientific Goals
– Understand core concepts about the water
cycle and conversation
– Apply scientific methods for collecting and
analyzing water resources data
– Evaluate the impact of human activity on the
local and regional water environment

77. Water Quality Project Goals
• Societal Goals
– Using the water quality data to inform regional
water management policies and regulations

78. Real-world
scientific
experiences
Problem-based
learning

79. Alignment Table
Activity/Project Goal Pedagogy Technology
Water quality
project
Science
Grades 7-12
Understand core
concepts about the
water cycle and
conversation
Apply scientific
methods for
collecting and
analyzing water
resources data
Evaluate the impact
of human activity on
the local and
regional water
environment
Project-based
learning
Viewing video clips
and studying
animations (e.g.,
Khan Academy)
Collecting and
testing water
samples (e.g.,
external sensors)
Collaborating to
interpret and report
results (e.g., Google
docs)

80. Mobile devices and
apps integrated into
learning, data
collection, and data
analysis

81. Understand core concepts about
the water cycle and conservation
View video clips
and study
animations

82. Apply scientific methods for collecting
and analyzing water resource data
Collect and
test water
samples

83. Evaluate the impact of human activity
on local & regional water environment
Collaborate to
interpret & report
results

84. Alignment Table
Activity/Project Goal Pedagogy Technology
Water quality
project
Science
Grades 7-12
Understand core
concepts about the
water cycle and
conversation
Apply scientific
methods for
collecting and
analyzing water
resources data
Evaluate the impact
of human activity on
the local and
regional water
environment
Project-based
learning
Viewing video clips
and studying
animations (e.g.,
Khan Academy)
Collecting and
testing water
samples (e.g.,
external sensors)
Collaborating to
interpret and report
results (e.g., Google
docs)

86. Turkish Science goals
• Understanding core environmental
concepts
• Knowing how to engage in scientific
inquiry
• Communicating findings to relevant
audiences

88. 3. What are best practices? (8 mins)

89. Macroview
● Cost
● Management
● Training
● Security and Privacy

90. Microview
● Before class
● During class
● After class

91. Advantages of mobile devices
● increasing learner independence
● increasing learning engagement
● increasing communication

92. Conclusion (3 mins)