This overview slideshare provides a quick glimpse into some key ideas about using mobile learning and micro-learning in higher education settings.

1. COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, UT ARLINGTON
TEACHING-FOCUSED BROWN BAG
OCTOBER 15, 2014
PEGGY SEMINGSON, PH.D.
peggy@uta.edu
Active Learning with a focus on millennials
Large-group instruction
Overarching Concepts: Multi-media and mobile
Mobile learning
Micr0-content
Micr0-learning
Your own ideas and curriculum

2. Reminders from Last Week
Data from PEW research suggests millennials are a
unique demographic.
See: http://bit.ly/1nlqVVR

3. Ask students for their
feedback!
Five minute Quick-write
Thoughts on
previous
session?
What you should know about me as a learner….
What strategies
have you tried?
Follow-up in class with dialogue
What were the
results?
Quick-write
Write for
one
minute
Then we
will share!

4. Fostering engagement and
dialogue with low-tech
▪ Break up instruction every
7-10 minutes
▪ Quick-writes (1-3 minutes)
at beginning and/or end of
session
▪ --warm-up
▪ --application
▪ --current events-connect to
practice
▪ Turn and talk (share)
▪ What else?

5. Optional: Put up language
prompts for dialogue
▪ To build on what you said….
▪ I believe….
▪ Based on the readings, I believe…

6. Formative assessment-
“exit tickets”
▪ Pen and paper
▪ Index cards
▪ Post to Blackboard designated area
▪ (assign a hashtag for your course). Something you learned.
– Twitter, e.g., #elementaryliteracy
– Try to avoid the exact name of your course
– What I learned/what stood out
– “”The muddiest point”; use as opening for next class
– What I want to learn further about and how I can do so
– Questions
– Other?

7. Other uses for
Twitter
▪ Students “follow” organizations’ updates
– “International Dyslexia Organization”
– “International Reading Association”
Students follow notable people in the
field who post professionally
Who would that be in your field?
What else?

8. Millennials like relevance
▪ New York Times articles (some have quizzes!)
▪ Applications to real-world
▪ Scenarios
▪ Collaborative learning (with guidelines)
▪ What else?

9. Tech-savvy and connected students:
Mobile Devices
▪ “Bring your own
device” (BYOD):
smartphone,
tablet, laptop, etc.
▪ Can use for
backchannel (e.g.,
Kahoot!, Twitter
with designated
hashtag, real time
searches)

10. Kahoot!
Example: Supply and Demand Quiz
▪ https://play.kahoot.it/#/lobby?quizId=23712e8f-bf76-
4e02-81cc-add6ec7e898d
▪ Kahoot.it
▪ Use a mobile device, tablet, or laptop
▪ “Bring your own device” (BYOD)

11. Polleverywhere
▪ Checking for understanding
▪ Warm-up
▪ Multiple-choice or open-ended
▪ Variety of ways to display information
▪ http://www.polleverywhere.com/
▪ User guide: http://www.polleverywhere.com/guide

14. Other uses for mobile tools
▪ Productivity
▪ Students put due dates into their mobile device
calendar
▪ Cloud-based note-taking tools:
– Evernote
– Google Docs
▪ What else?

15. Micro-content
▪ Shortened, concise content
▪ Great for busy students
▪ Advance organizer (summary of what is coming
up) on 1-page
▪ Multi-modal content
▪ Can post links in Blackboard or embed.
▪ Can make optional or required

16. Micro-learning
▪ Create your own or find outside learning
▪ Example
Mini-podcast (30 seconds-2 minutes) on key topics
https://soundcloud.com/peggy-semingson

17. To create a podcast
▪ Audacity
▪ Soundcloud (can use free for up to three hours of
content)

18. Micro-lecture
▪ “These lectures are gone
in 60 seconds” by David
Shieh, Chronicle of
Higher Education, March
6, 2009.
▪ http://chronicle.com/arti
cle/These-Lectures-Are-
Gone-in-60/19924

19. YouTube
▪ 1) Overviews or “microlectures” of crucial concepts
related to learning so students can review and
reinforce challenging concepts
▪ 2) Demonstrations of techniques that students will
be implementing both in their lesson plans in this
class, student teaching, and future teaching
▪ 3) Explanations of key assignments with advice for
student success on the assignment
▪ App: YouTube Capture

20. Video creation tool in
Blackboard: Kaltura
▪ Center for Distance Education offers training
courses in using Kaltura.
▪ How can students make their own Kaltura video?
▪ How can students create their own micr0-content
(e.g., with their mobile device?)

21. Dialogue
1. What are your thoughts?
2. How can you use mobile-compatible tools to
engage your students?
3. What can you create with multi-modal content?
4. What do you want to try, either l0w-tech or high-tech?