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Mobile Learning in Career Programs
This document discusses mobile learning (m-learning) in career programs. It defines m-learning as e-learning using mobile devices and wireless transmission. M-learning allows learning to occur anywhere and anytime, as learners are no longer tethered to a fixed place and time. The document provides examples of using smartphones and specialized mobile devices like heart rate monitors to document activity logs and reflections. It acknowledges technologies must improve learning and be easy to use. Resources for additional information on m-learning are also provided.
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- 1. Mobile Learning in CareerPrograms Brett McLean Apprenticeship Coordinator, SD43 Bmclean@sd43.bc.ca or simply Google “bmclean43”
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- 3. What is SSA? Purpose of the Program Eligibility
- 4. The Hidden Apprentice Alreadyworking? In a trade? Communicating the Possibilities
- 5. Benefits For theStudents Scholarships Accelerated Certification and Career Exploration For the District Course-by-Course Funding Collaboration and Community-Driven Education
- 6. Why Online? » DistributedLearning and the Road Ahead • Increasing Accessibility • Increasing Awareness
- 7. Why Online? » Today’schild is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules” • (Marshall McLuhan, 1967).
- 12. M-Learning • Milrad (2003)states that e-learning is “learning supported by digital ‘electronic’ tools and media, whereas mobile learning is e-learning using mobile devices and wireless transmission (in Hutchinson et al, 2008).
- 13. M-Learning • This definitiondoes not require the learners to have any actual mobility, however.
- 14. M-Learning • learners couldbe using a mobile device at fixed times, in fixed locations.
- 15. M-Learning Definitions • “Interms of devices and technologies” whereas others • “define and conceptualise it in terms of the mobility of learners and the mobility of learning” (Traxler 2007)
- 16. M-Learning • Knowledge construction,‘sage on the stage’ vs. ‘guide on the side’
- 17. M-Learning • Effective, efficient •No longer tethered to a time and place
- 18. Smartphone and SpecializedMobile Devices
- 23. • Polar HeartRate Monitors
- 24. • Polar HeartRate Monitors • Understanding what your heart is telling you and how much work you are capable of doing. • Seeing improvement by increasing work rate at the same heart rate level.
- 25. Dropbox • Documenting each activitylog with a meaningful reflection of what was applied from the theory part of the course.
- 26. •Using heart ratemonitors you can upload your activity logs into an online journal.
- 28. REALLY? Technology for technology’ssake Disconnection from here and now Is it better than what we did before?
- 29. It can improvelearning If focus on why and how learning will improve If it’s easy to use If we aren’t trying to teach two courses in one
- 30. Simple solutions Bmclean43.posterous.com/can-i- really-podcast-on-the-go Photosof work projects for a later Powerpoint
- 31. M-Learning Resources Tony Vincent- “Learning in Hand”
- 32. M-Learning Resources Tony Vincent- “Learning in Hand”
- 33. M-Learning Resources James McConville- past-president of the PSA “Computer Using Educators of BC” http://jamesmcconville.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/jmcconville1000
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