This document summarizes a webinar presentation about mobile learning and how technology may change education. The presentation discusses how mobile devices can be used for interactive textbooks, tutorials, augmented reality, and interactive multimedia learning. It also shares the results of a study on teachers who used iPads in Austrian schools. Key findings were that technical infrastructure and administrative support are important, and iPads facilitated constructivist, self-directed, and individualized learning with teachers taking more of a coaching role. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the need for education to evolve with technological advances.

1. Mobile Learning: New Ways of
Learning and Teaching?
Prof.(FH) Mag. Dr. Tanja Jadin
Webinar: MEDEAnet 14.11. 2013

2. What do you think of this
picture?
Which words come to your
mind?
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3. And what do
you think
about the
classroom of
the future?
What are your
first
associations?

4. What should learning and
teaching look like in future?
What about fun? Asking questions?
Experimenting? Exploring?
What about the motivation to learn?

5. Does Technology Change
Education?
If technology changes education it serve its purpose.
Changes and further development both education and
learning is bound to be an ongoing task.
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6. Some Facts about Learning
Theories
Behaviorism:
Learning through reinforcement
Teacher provides input to the learner
Black Box, drill and practice
Cognitivism:
Active information processing,
thinking, problem solving, situated
cognition, knowledge, tutorials
Constructivism:
Authentic learning situations,
learning in groups, self-directed,
problem-based learning, simulation
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7. Drill and Practice
Learning Geography
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8. Drill and Practice
Learning Vocabulary
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9. Learning with Interactive
Textbooks
New ways of
interacting: switch,
zoom..
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10. Courses and
Tutorials
Individual Learning based
on Previous Knowledge
and Personal Interest
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11. Augmented Reality
To Visualize Hidden Objects and
Processes
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12. To Grasp Social Realities
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14. Interactive
Multimedia
Learning
Learning by Means of 3D
Simulation
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16. Some Results from a Empirical Study
Interviews with 6 teachers who have already
used tablets in Austrian schools
Photo CC T.Jadin

17. The sample
Teachers from:
three elementary schools
two grammar schools
one secondary modern school
All teachers use iPads. Some provide iPads for all
classes, whereas others uses them for one class only.
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18. A summary of Main Findings
Framework for Tablets in schools
Additional technical equipment: Wirless Lan,
Synchronisation of required Apps, Projecter, Printer,
Headset
Support by the management/ headmaster/ mistress
Flexible usage (battery, ready for use, mobile), no
Computer Room
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19. A summary of Main Findings
Framework for Tablets in schools
Financial aspect: which tablet should be used, who
will buy and manage the tablets?
„Bring Your Own Device“ = personalised learning
Teacher needed introduction to tablets not the
students
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20. A summary of Main Findings
The Learning Scenario = Constructivism
The scenario is project-based and interdisciplinary
Learning by doing
iPads are used for desk research, for drill and practice
and to create presentation
Clear division of labour is needed
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21. A summary of Main Findings
The Learning Scenario = Constructivism
Self-directed learning will be facilitated
More individual, personalised learning is possible
Students are motivated to learn and work
Teachers are rather coaches than instructors, but that
is challenging. Shift in teacher identity and the way
how learning happens.
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22. To answer the Initial Question, just
watch this Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYMd-7Ng9Y8
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23. If we teach today as we taught
yesterday, we rob our children of
tomorrow. (John Dewey)
Prof.(FH) Mag. Dr. Tanja Jadin
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
tanja.jadin@fh-hagenberg.at
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