Less is MoreM-Learning with Cell Phones

Lucy Haagen, Program in Education

CIT Showcase April 24, 2009

Today’s Workshop

Introduction to M-Learning with Mobile Phones: Rationale and Resources

Mobile Phones and Civic Engagement:

Local and Global Examples From Margin to Mainstream: Future

Possibilities

What is M-Learning?

Use of mobile devices to produce an anytime, anywhere learning experience

M-Learning in Context

Why Mobile Phones? Ubiquitous Web 2.0 compatible Platform of choice for under 30s Compatibility Portability Eco-friendly Promotes multiple modes of interaction

Rationale and Resources (USA) Horizon Report (

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report.pdf) “New interfaces, the ability to run third-party

applications, and location-awareness have all come to the mobile device in the past year, making it an ever more versatile tool that can be easily adapted to a host of tasks for learning, productivity, and social networking.”

Mobile Phone Use Explosion

Source: lTU World Communications Database, 2009

China: Mobile Phone Use Outstrips Web Use (000’S)

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Mobile Phones

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Millennials Use of Cell Phones

SMS text messaging outstrips phone calls

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Source: Harris interactive, January, 2009

What functions do you currently use?

Phone Call SMS                 Email Web Browsing Camera for images Camera for video Voice recorder Video player Text Reader Music/Audio Player Games

Free/Affordable Mobile Phone Applications Polling (ex: polleverywhere.com) Google Maps Speaking Dictionaries China2go Adobe Reader MP3 file translator Gcast (podcasting) Jott (audio to print memo) Free SMS Messaging Twitter!

Mobile Phones and Civic Engagement: Southern High School, Durham NCSpring, 2008

Service Learning Seminar: Teaching ESL

Ranked bottom 10 percent of NC High Schools

End of Course Test Passage Rate for LEP (Limited English Proficient): 16.7 percent

Cooperating English and World History Teachers

M-Learning Goals

1. Increase oral presentation skills

2. Write personal essay

3. Research world-historical figure (One of history’s “troublemakers”)

4. Develop multimedia Powerpoint Presentation

Project Activities Voice Message Board: Duke Student Response “Ask an Expert” link between Southern students

and Duke professors Old Fashioned “Call your Coach” link between

Southern Students and Duke learning coaches. Voice Recording: Audio Narration Podcasting: This I Believe (Sample Podcast) Incentives: Extra Cellphone Minutes for

productivity

What Didn’t Work

Southern Students and Duke Students did not talk by phone

Southern Students did not make productive use of phones outside of school

Incentives didn't work as motivators

What Did Work

Audio Recording Ask the Expert Message Board Personalized Podcasting Project-Based Learning in Small Groups Team-Teaching

Indicators of Success

Project Completion Rate Student Attendance During Project Period LEP Student Test Results (16.7 percent to

30.1 percent passage rate) Student and Teacher Satisfaction

Mobile Phones and Civic EngagementNorth Vietnam Summer, 2008

Mobile Applications and Purposes

Maximize Mobility and Safety of Students in Foreign Environment

Group Text Messaging Free English-Vietnamese

Dictionary Photo Images of Key

Locations Photo Log of Students

Community Building & Documentation

Audio Diaries

Photo-journalism

SMS PoetryWhen I vIsted the orphanage,

I went with balloons, hard candies,

Old National Geographics

The children grabbed for everything.

I gave one a candy, others screamed

Until seven or eight were clawing at my legs.

They popped the balloons,

Choked on the candies

Shredded the magazines

I looked over to the nun for help.

She stopped ladling gruel into the communal trough

“Next time, if you come,

Bring enough for everyone, or bring nothing.”

Wendy Wilder Larson

Direct Service Oral English

Assessment

Electronic Alphabet Book

Personal Audio Dictionary

Literacy through Photography

Project Documentaton

In the Works

M’Ubuntu: Mobile

Phones Empowering

Primary School Teachers

to Address South Africa’s

Literacy Crisis

Mobile Phones in Your Course

Share a specific example of how you could use of mobile phones in one of your own courses or projects. Be sure that the mobile phone is not a just a possible technology but actually a preferable one.

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