Incorporating mobile devices in your learning activities needs to be done with much consideration. This session will introduce you to different strategies you can use to design effective mobile learning activities.

1. Designing Effective Mobile
Learning Activities
Sandra Sawaya
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2. action plan
• introducing you to different strategies to
design effective mobile learning
activities

3. the mobile device is ________

4. texting
sharing
surfing
talking
emailing
browsing
uploading
downloading
the mobile device is a
communication* device

5. design considerations
1. promote enriching conversations
– collaborating with others
– constructing common knowledge
– carrying conversations across context
(Sharples, Taylor, & Vavoula, 2007)

6. design considerations
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decide on using apps or built-in features
create micro-interactions
prepare flexible materials
develop a seamless flow of learning
facilitate learning
produse
(Herrington, Herrington, & Mantei, 2009; Naismith & Corlett, 2006)

7. Questions?

8. example: math learning activity
• While you’re at school, at home, at the
mall, and so on, look around you and
identify five different polygons you see.
Take a picture of these shapes and share
them with your group members to create a
presentation showing the different looks
the same polygons can have.

9. example: language arts
• Classroom vocabulary scavenger hunt
using Aurasma.
• Note cards with vocab words on them
placed on corresponding objects
throughout the room.
• Students scan the cards to reveal an audio
file of the correct pronunciation of the
words.

10. other examples

11. design challenges
• enriching learning conversations and
enhance learning experiences without
interference
• evaluating mobile learning activities
– using a fixed technology to achieve a fixed
learning goal in changing and varying
contexts
(Beale, 2007)

12. implementation considerations

13. implementation challenges