The document summarizes Khanh Cao and Daniel Cagley's experience investigating different mobile technologies for learning in a class. At the beginning of the class, Khanh identified as a visual and active learner based on a learning preferences survey. Daniel was surprised by how accurate the survey was in identifying him as a visual learner. Throughout the class, they explored using iPads and tablets, which helped accommodate their visual learning preferences. They chose different initial learning pathways - Khanh chose "Learning Warrior" to gain deeper knowledge, while Daniel chose "Learning Sage" to gain broader knowledge, but both ended up more interested in specific technologies like iPads. Form entries introducing new apps were most helpful, while podcasts and bookmarks were

1. Khanh Cao
Daniel Cagley
15 May 2012
Note: Daniel is in the red writing, I am in the blue writing, and the group is in black writing.
Describe your personal learning preferences (1 paragraph, 100-150 words for each team member) -
Answer EACH of the following questions:
At the beginning of the class, what were your scores when you first took the learning preferences survey?
At the end of the class, how has your thinking changed about your learning preferences?
At the beginning of the semester, I took the learning preferences survey. My scores were visual (11), sensing
(11), sequential (7), and active (5). By the end of the class, I would say that my thinking about my learning
preferences is the same. Not much has changed about me as a learner. I did take into consideration what
the learning preferences told me, but I have always understood myself as a learner. I am a very visual
person. I like when professors have visual aids or powerpoints. It’s hard to pay attention in lecture when
they only speak and don’t write on the board. I am more prone to active preferences because I like doing
hands on things. I would rather go and do something myself to learn about it then just read an instruction
sheet about it.
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At the beginning of the semester I was shocked by how accurate the scores were on the learning
preferences survey. I was a Ref=4, Sen=9, Vis=11, and Seq=3. I have always felt I was a visual learner and the
quiz confirmed that. I realized that I was not much of a sequential learner and noticed it was something I
needed to work on. As the semester has wore on I have realized that my visual learning preference has
really come into play. Knowing about my different learning preferences has made a difference in how I
approach my learning in other classes. I now realize that I am skewed preferably toward visual learning and
always need to write down the lectures so that I can see them and study them.
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2. • Summarize your group's thoughts about learning preferences (1
paragraph, 100-150 words) - Answer the following questions (Show how
each person contributed to the answers):
• At the end of the class, how has your thinking changed about learning
preferences overall?
• Does knowing about learning preferences make a difference in your
personal learning success?
• At the end of the class, our thinking has not changed about learning
preferences. We think that the learning preferences are a great way for
some students to recognize what their strengths and weaknesses are.
However, for both of us the learning preferences didn’t tell us anything we
already didn’t know about ourselves. We are both visual learners and
always have been. Knowing about learning preferences has not made a
different in our personal learning success. We can only attribute that to
our own drive to do well in school and overcoming obstacles in our way. To
us, it doesn’t matter what our learning preferences are because you can’t
always choose your professors or classes. I think a better way to help
students would be enabling them to overcome obstacles that hinder their
learning preferences.
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3. • Describe the learning pathway you chose at the beginning of the class (1 paragraph, 100-200
words for each team member)
• Which learning pathway did you choose at the beginning of the class? Were you successful in
getting a broader knowledge of mobile technologies (Learning Sage), a deeper knowledge of
mobile technologies (Learning Warrior), or opportunities to use mobile technologies to learn with
others (Learning Guide)?
• Did you change your pathway? Why?
• I chose the Learning warrior pathway. I chose this because I feel that in able to become a guide or a
sage, I would have to have a deeper understanding of the mobile technologies before helping
others. I think by the end of the class, I did have a better knowledge of the various mobile
technologies that can be used in an educational environment. I wanted to better my performance
this semester. I think of the mobile technologies, I used my smart phone, my ipad, and texting the
most. I didn’t use clickers this semester because I didn’t have a class that was big enough. The
mobile technologies are probably the ones that I am most comfortable with. I use them every day
of my life. Things such as blogs are more for entertainment purposes. I never changed my pathway
because I wanted to better myself. Also, even though there were tons of forums I didn’t know
anyone in class besides my boyfriend so it’s hard to be a guide or a sage for people you do not
know. That is why I prefer in class interaction. It allows you to get to know fellow students and
communicate better.
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• At the beginning of the semester the learning pathway I chose was sage for a broader knowledge of
mobile technologies. I really wanted to know about all of the different technologies that existed
and how best to use them for my specific learning needs. As time went on and I discovered more
about ipads and tablets and microblogs, I changed my pathway to warrior because I became
extremely interested in these technologies and wanted to know how I could use them to get better
grades and graduate! The activity that worked the best was when I had to use my ipad for taking
notes in class instead of using a traditional paper and pen. I discovered that I could be much more
organized and take more notes in class.
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4. • Summarize how the activities you completed contributed or did not contribute
to your learning pathway (1 paragraph, 100-200 words as a group)
• Which specific activities helped you get a broader understanding of how to use a
mobile technology to learn? How did they help?
• Which specific activities helped you get a deeper understanding of how to use a
mobile technology to learn? How did they help?
• Which specific activities worked best for learning with others to use mobile
technologies?
• For this class, I think the most helpful activities were the form entries. They gave
new suggestions of ways to use our iPads. They helped because they gave us
different ideas of applications to use. We were both pleasantly surprised when we
saw apps like Evernote on there. I never knew that there were so many learning
apps for the iPad. I always saw it as more of an entertainment purpose. They
helped us explore our options. The note-taking apps helped us organize our notes.
Once again, the specific activity that helped us get a deeper understanding of how
to use a mobile technology was probably the form entries. They allowed us to try
new applications and see if they applied to our learning preferences. Honestly, we
hated the delicious.com bookmarks. We never received credit for sharing our links
and the links did not help us throughout this course. The forums worked best for
learning with others to use mobile technologies. This allowed us to share our ideas
with one another.
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5. • Using one or two paragraphs each, describe the top mobile technologies you explored for
learning (1-2 paragraphs, 100-150 words each for each team member)
• Name a mobile Technology Quest and how you explored it for your own learning. How well do you
think the mobile technology accommodates one or more of your learning preferences? Which
preferences? How does the mobile technology accommodate each preference? (Don't just say "I'm
a visual learner, so it helped me to see it." That's not good enough.)
• The mobile technology Quest that I explored the most for my own learning was the iPads and
tablets. I think that this mobile technology accommodates a lot of my learning preferences, but the
one it applies to the most is my visual learning. I cannot function without physically seeing what I
am learning. The visual aspect of my learning is insane because I sometimes have a photographic
memory. Visually, the ipad was able to lay out all the materials I needed for my classes. The
applications that I downloaded for learning allowed me to be interactive which played into my
active learning preference. As for my sensual learning preference, I think that the iPad was able to
play into my senses. I was able use the iPad and touch the surface and move things around. I was
able to type with my attachable keyboard. Honestly, the iPad just completely changed my learning
experience. I feel that it enabled me to use many resources all in one convenient location. I have
been marked down before for the convenience of the iPad. However, I don’t learn well at a library
and it is pretty cool when I am able to open pdfs or books onto my ipad. One quest that I didn’t
enjoy was podcasts. They didn’t help me at all.
• The microblogging quest was extremely useful as a quest. I explored microblogging by finding
popular sites and searching them for my interests. At first I started out searching motorcycles and
my Yamaha R6, but as I began to dive deeper into the sites, I realized that I could search them for
communities of people who have similar interests. By using microbloggs I was able to get links to
videos and other forums where I could communicate and see how different motorcycle riders had
maintained and upgraded their R6’s. I could also post my own feedback and blog about what I was
doing and planned to do to my bike. This quest helped me to learn a lot and gave me connections
to seek people’s help when I needed advice about my motorcycle.
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6. • Synthesize your group's experience investigating the use of different mobile technologies for
learning (2 paragraphs, 100-150 words each as a group)
• PARAGRAPH: Which mobile technologies interested you the most as learning tools? Which mobile
technologies surprised you the most as learning tools? Which mobile technologies do not seem to
work as learning tools? What mobile technologies do you want to explore further to improve your
learning? Why?
• PARAGRAPH: Which mobile technologies worked best for your learning preferences, if any? Why?
(Don't just say things like "I'm a visual learner, so it helped me to see it." That's not good enough.)
• Our group enjoyed the Ipad and microblogging quests as learning tools. I would say that these two
mobile technologies surprised us the most as learning tools. Daniel didn’t think that microblogging
would help him out as much as it did to find a motorcycle. I figured that the iPad would be helpful
in my education, but I didn’t know to that extent. There are a few mobile technologies that we
hated as a group. We were unable to understand why they were even learning quests. Those were
podcasts and vlogs. I think that these were not realistic to us because not everyone is able to have
access to these things. Not everyone has a camera or an ipod. I think we just want to continue
exploring our ipads and tablets. They are the future of technology so we want to use them as much
as possible to further our learning. We want to learn all the apps we can use for classes.
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• The mobile technologies that helped us the most were the Ipad and the microblogging. They
helped our visual learning preferences greatly. These two quests displayed the information for us so
that we could understand them better for class. The Ipad was very interactive so this helped our
sequential learning preferences. These devices also helped us look at the way we perceive things.
They allowed us to reflect on the learning materials and they played into our active and reflective
learning preferences. I think that the hardest thing sometimes is learning about our learning
preferences. During the metacognition quest, it was frustrating at times because I don’t think that
you can just label people with learning preferences. Everyone is different. Sometimes we even
surprise ourselves as learners and are able to learn with devices that don’t match our learning
preferences. I would say that we are very adaptive learners.
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7. • Summarize how you will use what you learned in this class after this semester (2
paragraphs, 100-150 words as a group)
• PARAGRAPH: What mobile learning strategies will you continue using after this class? How can they
be used when you are learning at a job (or outside of school)?
• PARAGRAPH: Which mobile technologies will you continue using for learning after this class? Why?
How can they be used when you are learning at a job (or outside of school)? Which mobile
technologies will you continue using for non-learning purposes? What are they? Which mobile
technologies will you avoid using after this class? Why?
• I think that mobile learning strategies that we will continue using after this class are the microblogs
as well as the Ipad. Like we said before, those are the only learning strategies that we really
connected with. A lot of companies have begun to use the ipad and tablets in their businesses.
Currently we both work at In n Out burger, so I think that we can’t really use any of the mobile
learning strategies at work. Our work is more about labor than using devices such as the ipad or
microblogging. I think that we both want to explore internships outside of school so both of these
could help us learn about our internships. They also will help us figure out organize our materials
and reflect on how we are doing in the internship.
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• Everything that we have learned in this course about mobile learning has allowed us to continue
using these tools. I think that it’s a great skill to be able to operate these devices. I will definitely
use the ipad to continue taking notes. That is the greatest function for both of us. We love that you
can highlight and write notes on pdfs. Particularly we enjoy apps like OneNote or Evernote. We can
use them outside of school to help with our internships as we stated above. For non-learning
purposes we can use many mobile strategies. We will use things like texting, and microblogging.
Micoblogging is a way to express how we feel and it is like a personal online diary at times. That’s
pretty awesome. We will use to the ipad to play games. I think we just want to avoid podcasts and
vlogs because they have no use to us. I don’t really care to become a youtube guru or something
like that.
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