Dr. Kevin Burden investigates how teachers and academics can build a pedagogic knowledge base around the use of iPads using the MESH project (www.meshguides.org). The emerging research evidence undertaken by Dr. Burden and his team indicates that Personalisation; Collaboration and Authenticity are powerful affordances for learning with mobiles devices like iPads

1. Towards a research-informed
use of iPads in schools
Dr. Kevin Burden
Senior Lecturer
The University of Hull
27th February 2014
Southampton

4. ‘bench-top to bedside’ in medicine
Translation research

5. Imagine if........

6. Imagine if teachers could access research
based pedagogic knowledge about.....
barriers to learning threshold concepts at a fine
grain level
the most effective strategies for using iPads in the
classroom
there was a Map of Medicine for education????
‘Concept to
classroom’

7. www.meshguides.org

8. UNESCO and OECD publications on mobile
learning

9. National research and evaluations

10. Edinburgh 1:1 Mobile pr
2013

11. Personalisation
What have we discovered about mobile
technologies?
Collaboration
Authenticity

12. Personalisation

13. Individualisation
Adaptive customisation

14. Independence:
where and how to learn

16. Collaboration

17. Conversations mediated by mobile
devices, not replaced by them

19. Learner Generated Content

20. How we ‘read’ a book changes

21. Students as authors
(knowledge constructors)

22. eBooks that understand your
‘reading’ habits

23. Authenticity

24. Greater authenticity is
possible
1. Acces to ‘professional tools’
2. Access to ‘live data in real time’
in the classroom
3. Using mobiles in outdoor contexts

28. Heritage learning situated

30. home and they would just complete it and send it
back to me. But if I put the worksheet on ‘Screen
Chomp’, then they can do the worksheet on
‘Screen Chomp’ but record themselves while they
do it, and explain what they are doing to me, so I
can see where their understanding is, and I can
see any points that they are not
understanding. And I can also, when I am marking
it when I am talking to the children after, I will be
able to give them more direct and targeted
feedback because I will know exactly where they
have gone wrong with things. I think that has
been a big change in being able to do that”

34. How do I get involved?

35. What pedagogical questions about the use of iPads in
schools would you want to have answered?
k.j.burden@hull.ac.uk
Twitter
@edskjb
Text: 07815184477

36. http://goo.gl/On3qDI

37. Your take-away
• the research evidence base for iPads is
growing but is not organised for
teachers
• Personalisation; Collaboration;
Authenticity are emerging as powerful
affordances of iPads
• MESH is an international, free, online
project to map the pedagogical
knowledge base in all subjects

39. (SFHEA)
Faculty of Education,
The University of Hull, HU6 7RX
Tel: (44) 01482 466731
Mobile: 07815184477
Twitter: @edskjb
URL: https://hull.academia.edu/KevinBurden
Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/edskjb/edit_my_uploa
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MESH maps (iPads)