User:Vtaylor/Mobile learning

== new==


 * apps for -	Providing feedback,	Reinforcing effort & providing recognition,	Cooperative learning,	Cues & questions,	Advance organizers,	Nonlinguistic representation,	Summarizing,	Notetaking,	Homework & practice,	Identifying similarities & differences,	Generating & testing hypotheses

== Mobile learning== http://www.mobl21.com


 * Listen - audio out


 * Text - text in/out


 * Record - audio in


 * Look - images, diagrams


 * Watch - video with audio


 * Participate - interactive / control over content - flashcards, quiz, discussion


 * Create / contribute / collaborate / share - images, video, recording, text-based content

online video tutorials http://www.mobl21.com/faq/videotutorials

Download the Desktop Widget (and /or) Now, you can access learning content on the widget or iPhone/iPod app Sign-in: Username (e-Mail ID): Password: 	-- see email -- Content Code: 	atu4e8uz We hope you enjoy learning with Mobl21!
 * Install Adobe Air: http://get.adobe.com/air/
 * Install Mobl21 widget: http://www.mobl21.com/package/mobl21.air
 * Download Mobl21 app for iPhone / iPod touch http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/mobl21/id350326010?mt=8

== 2011.02 ==

apps >< moodle - instructor grade, portfolio
 * text outline / audio presentation
 * image / writing / audio
 * instructions / reading / quiz

Is there any work ongoing looking at mobile learning using open educational resources? Is any development underway to create applications for mobile phones to be used in education, either for direct delivery of instruction or as a supplement to other learning resources? Is consideration being given to student-instructor or student-student communication? Assessment?


 * ideas, resources

project ideas
 * assessment - readiness (skills, concepts, content knowledge), interest (surveys, interest centers, self-select), learning profile (areas of strengths and weaknesses, work preferences, self-awareness) - to customize/personalize presentation, activities for learner


 * infrastructure - collect, store, categorize, deliver mobile learning


 * portfolio - learner self-evaluation/reflection, feedback

tools, resources


 * Beginners Guide to Slide to Learn aims to be the guide that busy educators need as they consider tapping into the advantages of learning at the speed of mobile. community, resources


 * iTunesU


 * awareness, global opportunity (full report .pdf)


 * assessment - pre-assessment diagnostic (finding out), formative (keeping track and checking up), summative (making sure)

Would it be possible to take CNX resources like Statistics and provide a phone-based application to enhance student learning?

Part 2 - Perhaps most important to Connexions end users will be this technical update. EPUB (eReaders) has Connexions content on it. This eReader is used for most mobile devices (except for Kindles). Connexions content is on iTunesU (18 collections), is available with an Android App, has Mobile downloads, and has new math support that is better looking for users. I am excited that Connexions pages now load faster due to a technical change to have better load balancing. Part 3 - Upfront Systems in South Africa (there was an excellent demo of http://mobile.cnx.org and a demo showing MathMl and text on cell phones using just a mobile browser, i.e., not needing an iPhone or an Android), WebAssign (http://webassign.net – an excellent homework and grading system for the sciences and mathematics which I personally admire and use with Collaborative Statistics), Shutterfly in South Africa (all content in the K-12 curriculum is available via mobile cell phones, again, not needing a smart phone)
 * Connexions Conference 2011


 * WebAssign


 * Moodle for mobiles


 * Mobile Moodle (MOMO)


 * Rice University Connexions - downloads available in EPUB format


 * EPUB


 * [MIT] ? mobile access to content


 * Collaborative Statistics - Sophia - html


 * Athabasca


 * MobilED was to bring Wikipedia to so called “entry level” mobile phones, mainly used in the Global South. In practice the entry level mobile phones are those with voice (calling) and text message. With the MobilED prototype we demonstrated that this is possible.

== mLearning - Feasibility==

Questions
 * Is it feasible for under-served populations to use mobile phones to facilitate learning?
 * Can mobile learning be cost-effective - rates, tasks > meaningful learning - cost, availability, affordability, educational funding/discounts
 * content - subjects, depth, breadth, audience - teachers, students, community - need, feasibility
 * learning activities - innovative, effective, engaging - device functionality, resources, support services

Activities / tasks
 * listen - recording, 1:many lecture - call-in number with pre-recorded message
 * say - leave voice message - call-in number with recording capability
 * discuss - many:many, 1:many, 1:1 - synchronous conference call
 * read - text display
 * text message - leave text message, interactive ? capture / archive / web-display
 * view - images, video - store, distribute / play
 * photograph / video - participant generated - capture, store, forward, display, share
 * record - interview - capture, store, forward, listen, share

Issues
 * privacy - participants personal information, phone number
 * security
 * technical - storage / reteival, display
 * access - all participants have adequate access to phone to complete work

Subjects
 * academic
 * vocational
 * life skills

Bloom applicable to mlearing
 * creating
 * evaluating
 * analysing
 * applying
 * understanding
 * remembering

Services / applications
 * social - Twitter, Facebook

Learning Pyramid
 * lecture
 * reading
 * audio-visual
 * demonstration
 * discussion group
 * practice by doing
 * teach others / immediate use

== Learn more...==

Mobile volunteerism
 * there are more people on earth with cell phones, than without
 * mobile phones are the fastest growing consumer market in history
 * mobile phones have an incredibly large user base with over 23 million mobile subscribers in Canada
 * massive mobile usage, over 122 million sms messages sent daily in Canada
 * over 80% of Canadians take their cell phone to bed
 * it's a one-to-one relationship with it's user, the device is very personal and seldom shared
 * most important, it's always carried, and always connected

2010.04


 * I was inspired to re-think how I approach education. I never want my focus to be on “achievement” in things that are easily measurable. Real life skills are harder to measure, harder to pin down, but so much more beneficial. -- Lori Bourne

CIS2 student work
 * Mobile learning - Spring 2008,  Summer 08,   Fall 2009

Can You Get an Education in Spite of School? via - Summary of a talk by John Taylor Gatto, including this bit: "Mr. Gatto ended his presentation by talking about traits that a truly educated person possesses; they bear little resemblance to traditional school curriculums:
 * An educated person writes his/her own script in life; destiny is self-determined
 * An educated person is never at a loss for what to do with his/her time
 * An educated person has a blueprint for personal values, a philosophy
 * An educated person understands his/her own mortality and learns throughout life, right until the end
 * An educated person has the capacity to create new things, new experiences, and new ideas"

mLearning, handschooling


 * android - devices, tools
 * mobile-aware - web sites that detect a mobile display and adapt automatically
 * transform - browsers, applications to transform content to m-format

Overview of mobile devices, use and their role in education.

What is being done to capitalize on the availability of mobile devices? How can mLearning contribute to formal and informal education? Are there examples of innovations and successes with mLearning?
 * What Can You Learn From A Cell Phone? – Almost Anything!
 * ShareIdeas
 * Literacy Changes Lives
 * M-Learning.org
 * .. CIS2 student project mLearning
 * mLearnopedia

Having been involved in the IT industry for many years, we have seen how hard it is to manage personal computing in a high service area. While I have been impressed with the work of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), it is clear that the infrastructure, management and distribution issues are extremely difficult. Mobile Learning appears to be a more practical solution to achieving anytime, everywhere education.


 * Africa 	Nokia and Plan Give a Voice to Africa's Youth
 * Global 	"Museum On The Go"
 * Africa, Americas 	Dunia Moja
 * Americas 	MobileASL
 * Africa 	Entrepreneurial Programming & Research on Mobiles
 * Africa, Asia-Pacific 	HIV/AIDS Education Via Mobile
 * Global 	Socialight
 * Global 	wildlive!


 * Education for a Digital World - part 1 http://www.colfinder.org/material/Education_for_a_Digital_World/Education_for_a_Digital_World_part1.pdf


 * http://www.kiwanja.net — “Where technology meets anthropology, conservation and development.”

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9790452-7.html, October 3, 2007
 * “UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube”
 * “Podcast lectures for uni students” at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/5013194.stm, May 26, 2006
 * “wildlive!” at http://www.kiwanja.net/wildlive!.htm
 * “Freedom HIV/AIDS” at http://www.dgroups.org/groups/oneworld/OneWorldSA/index.cfm?op=dsp_showmsg&listname=OneWorldSA&msgid=498250&cat_id=513, November 30, 2006
 * “Dunia Moja” at http://duniamoja.stanford.edu
 * “FrontlineSMS” at http://www.frontlinesms.com
 * http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/index.php/2006/09/21/20-ideas-getting-students-to-use-their-mobile-phones-as-learning-tools/
 * http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article2572.asp
 * http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/reports/mlearning.doc
 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7178278.stm


 * Athabasca Digital Reading Room is going mobile… AU library has implemented a comprehensive mobile library website, containing relevant digital reading files, application tools and software, as well as learning objects (eg mp3 versions of journal articles, video clips, and e-books).


 * Limitations - What are some of the existing limitations on mLearning? How can these be overcome? access and equity, connectivity, relevance, flexible assessment, and efficiencies.


 * Text messaging - short forms incomprehensible, detract from formal academic and/or business writing practice


 * Audio only - phone-in homework, lecture review, enrichment resources


 * Smart phones - What other features are being introduced to mobile devices? How are these being used in education and learning? portable video, integrated web access formatted for device display and behaviors


 * Assignments, quizzes and assigned reading


 * Photoblogging using telephones. (Blogger is particularly good for phones). We did local landmarks and geographical features. Also a vocabulary exercise where each person was given a word to illustrate with three photographs by the end of the day. (If you are going to use blogs use one that is mobile-friendly – like WordPress where you can get a plug-in called WP-Mobile so that students can access them from their mobiles) 25 practical ideas...


 * Networked learning


 * MLearning:A look at educational uses of PlayStation Portable (PSP) or Portable Media Player (PMP)

2011.02


 * Mosio - a mobile community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people  http://www.mosio.com/


 * Podcast Alley - Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners. http://www.podcastalley.com/


 * PodcastDirectory - This education podcast database has been constructed and is maintained by David Noble http://www.podcastdirectory.org.uk/


 * Podictionary - Podictionary is the audio word-a-day. For a couple of minutes Charles Hodgson discusses the unexpected history of words you thought you already knew http://www.podictionary.com/


 * Podiobooks - Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule - by podcasts http://podiobooks.com/

2010.4.22


 * Mobile Learning - student group project
 * http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article69 This article states that 70% of Japanese students prefer receiving lessons on their mobile phones, as opposed to on their computers. It also says that the United Kingdom is planning to teach english through mobile phones in the country of Bangladesh. It shows that other countries are looking for innovative ways to teach, and since almost everybody has a cellular phone, the mobile phone can become an educational resource. I noticed this myself when I was in China over the summer. There I would always receive advertisements through text messages, something that I had never seen in the states.


 * http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook/mobile-learning-group This is a slide show which demonstrates a mobile learning program and how it's carried out


 * http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/why_hasn_t_mobile_learning_gained_traction An argument about why it's hard to truly bring mobile technology into education.


 * http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/ This website is dedicated to making mobile phones a learning device, it puts links to downloads of software for cellphones, and just different ideas to learn from it. Many cellphones also come with scientific converters, for example converting cm to mm, or km to mi, so in the science department you can learn the different conversion rates from your phone.


 * http://mlearnopedia.com/ mLearning will definitely be a useful tool in the future. The technology provides a great deal of opportunity for both educators and students. But like any technology, this can be a double edged sword. Some teachers want students to pay attention in class and ban the use of both computers and cell phones in class. However, the cell phones can be used for educational purposes in class. Efforts should be made now to harness this technology so it can be used in a positive way. I think that some activities with mLearning should be incorporated into the class. Start off with some optional activities, just to have students get the hang of it.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLearning mLearning is convenient, because you can take it anywhere with you, wherever you are, you have access to classes and educational resources such as wikipedia, wikieducator, google, etc.. It also helps you learn without carrying books or materials that you need, they are all made available online. I think that mobile learning can make a difference in education, but of course there are some drawbacks. Some of these drawbacks could be being outside of the network which may disconnect you in the middle of an assignment or chat. It may also be a distraction or harder to utilize because of the size of the device. M-learning has a bigger impact on learners who loss interest in traditional learning that requires in-class lectures and group discussions. Readings can be done from reading off the cell phone is the most favorable learning activities as it functions as an electronic book. Assignments often require researches and drafts, it would be difficult to be done solely on cell phones. Nokia and M-Learning Institutes work together to encourage university students on different m-learning projects like "Earth Day Challenge" and "Envision 2020". The partnership indicates the importance in m-learning that corporates are willing to invest.


 * http://www.digitalartsalliance.org/partnerships/mli/index.html


 * http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080827_832352.htm This article talks about how Cell phones can be useful in education. The name of the article is: Cell Phones Make Headway in Education". There are a few useful point of view about using cell phones in education such as: For checking schedules or taking quizzes, mobile gizmos show promise on the campus. But teachers fear they create barriers in the classroom...


 * http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/ In this site I found out that apple products are good for mobile learning. In this site it says that students are using more and more their iTouch and iPhone everyday. They say that they do not only work for listening to music but that students can use their mobiles to "gather information on the web, get their e-mail, watch lectures, getting directions" and many more things.


 * http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091127/ap_on_hi_te/us_schools_cell_phones I think letting the students use their cellphones for assignments is just another sign of the times. Too often they were being told to put them away and don't let the administration see that you have a phone or they'll take it away. Now they're requesting that you take your phone out for today's lesson. So with any new technology it's at first handled with skepticism, but then slowly but surely is embraced by everyone involved. The cellphone is a great tool to use, but it must still be handled with care because again the cellphone can be a tool for good and for evil. As in the case of students cheating on tests and bullying the innocent ones. We just need to remain vigilant that the teachers and professors have the real power because they are the keepers of the grades after all, and not the cellphone.


 * http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE%2BQuarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/AreYouReadyforMobileLearning/157455 I found a very interesting page that talks about, Are you ready for mobile learning? And they say that frequent use of mobile devices does not mean that students or instructors are ready for mobile learning and teaching. This article is complete because it gives a broad explanation of the topic and all the factors surrounding, also it shows what the different mobile devices on the market are and how they can be use in the education. On the other hand also tells us all the benefits and challenges of mobile learning and many more things that help us to understand what is mobile learning and thus to have a better idea to form an opinion whether it is beneficial for us or not.


 * http://www.zimbio.com/mLearning/articles/91/10+Reasons+Mobile+Learning+Matters This link gives 10 reasons why mobile learning matters.

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