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Lyn Pemberton Marcus Winter Interactive Technologies Research Group University of Brighton, UK SIMOLA: Helping Language Learners Bridge the Gap ICT for Language Learning Florence 20-21 Oct 2011

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The Mobile Phone as Menace http://www.dailymail.co. uk/news/article- 1387291/Mobile- phones-wi-fi-banned- schools-theyre- potentially-harmful.html

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The Mobile Phone as Swiss Army Knife camera text phone camera calculator atlas/m ap note book video camera recorder Web browser

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The Mobile Phone as bridge

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The Mobile Phone as Bridge

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What do we hope for our students? Effective learning Deep cognitive processing Making and strengthening links between concepts Memorisation, discussion, exams, essays, re- representations Making connections between different contexts lecture theatre, lab, town, workplace, home, outdoors, media, etc (even different modules)

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LingoBee a mobile app to Collect, annotate and tag unknown, interesting or odd language and culture related content found in everyday life in target language setting Pool these items with other language learners in an online repository and distribute them via rss or SMS alerts

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Our target users

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design process focus groups d esign sessions

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I saw this and thought of 18 th Century rural economics Whats a free house?

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I saw this and thought of 18 th Century rural economics Whats a high street bank?

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Whats the word/phrase? Hey thats not right Ill write my own entry Show me a picture Hows it pronounced? How would you tag it? Whats the meaning? Is there a link?

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Evaluation with University of Sussex pre- sessional language students will international students use the system? how do they use it? what do teachers think? does it help the students learning and engagement? ethics funding

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and? phones ethics funding most suitable for advanced students needs to be super-usable phones need to belong to students students like social media aspects (anonymity issue) teachers found ways to integrate into classroom teaching and combine in- and outside class work issues of authoritativeness and misuse

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SIMOLA Lifelong Learning Project for European Union Two years - EU 450,000 - began Nov 2010 Seven EU partners & Tokyo U of Agriculture and Technology University of Brighton Study Group, UK Regional Community College of Amsterdam University of Molise, Italy Baltic Educational Technology Institute, Lithuania Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim Hungarian Virtual University ethics What next?

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If you have an Android phone, download the app and tell us what you think Encourage Android-owning students to use it See how online version goes down in class Get RSS updates to your FaceBook or iGoogle page Like to contribute?

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Demouy, V. and A. Kukulska-Hulme.(2010). On the spot: using mobile devices for listening and speaking practice on a French language programme. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(3), pp. 217232. Kukulska-Hulme, A. & S. Bull (2009). Theory-based support for mobile language learning: noticing and recording. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 3(2), pp. 1218. http://oro.open.ac.uk/15704/ Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & S. Fallahkhair. 2009. A User Created Content Approach to Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Advanced Language Learners. Proceedings of mLearn 2009, Orlando, Florida, pp. 184-187. Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & S. Fallahkhair. 2010. Collaborative Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Language Learners. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, Vol 6, No 1 (2010) http://rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/viewArticle/76

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Thank you any questions? Lyn : Lyn.Pemberton@bton.ac.ukLyn.Pemberton@bton.ac.uk Marcus : Marcus.Winter@bton.ac.ukMarcus.Winter@bton.ac.uk