Colloque international Mobile Education &Mediation Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle |

Paris, 5th-6th December 2013

The world in our hands: enhancing the power of mobile emerging technologies to

transform learningDr. Mar Camacho

Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)

emerging technologies

…Are reshaping the nature of education

…Hold great potential for increasing the access to information as well as promoting learning.

…Are transforming classrooms into more engaging, collaborative and productive learning environments in which instructions can be customized to student’s specific needs, interests and learning styles…

emerging technologies

more personal – networked - fun - more interactive – spontaneous- shorter in duration - to the point - for instant use- engaging users to contribute and share …

At the time that a distinct learning culture emerges, in which learners take mobility and context-awareness as departing point and become more visible as innovators, creators and producers they develop new skills, attributes and literacies enabled by mobile devices that offer them further possibilities to extend their learning and link the use of social media to their own context and interests.

(Kukulska-Hume, 2010)

Digital natives, but digitally competent?

More self directed, less top-down Better arrayed to capture new information

inputsMore reliant on feedback and responseMore inclined to collaboration More open to cross discipline insights

and creatingtheir own “tagged” taxonomiesMore oriented towards people being their

own individual nodes of production

Pew Internet Project, 2012

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29575505@N08/6466580353/

… y diferentes formas de comunicación

The NMC Horizon Report: 2011

m-learning phases

focus on the mobility of the learner

focus on learning outside the classroom

focus on devices 90s

… is not just the miniaturization and convenience of portable computing, but is transforming how we conceptualize and interact with computing and our environment, communicate, and create and manipulate information (Cheney, 2010; Pachler, Bachmair, & Cook, 2010).

… is about ubiquitous social connectivity, instant information access, and enhancing how we view the world through digital augmentation (Cook, 2010).

… is empowering for learners, who can become content and context generators within authentic learning environments (Herrington & Herrington, 2006, 2007) rather than simply consumers of transmitted content in classrooms.

Source: @jokay

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teaching%204/206/151/25It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyQK2ZucXJI

emerging technologies to watch

… Within the next12 months

Defined as the fastest growing dimension of the mobile space in higher education right now, with impacts on virtually every aspect of informal life,and increasingly, every discipline in the university.

#mobile apps

Top apps functions • Games

• News/weather

• Maps

• Social networking

• Music

• Entertainment/food

• Banking

• Sports

• Shopping

• Movies

Info updatesCommunicationLearn about interestsDestinationsWork tasksPurchasesExtra info about event Health

The relevance of Mobile Apps for teaching, learning and creative inquiry in Higher Education becomes evident when designing project-based workshops, geo-localization activities or using storytelling techniques to explore place and community.

#tablet computing

Higher Education institutions are seeing them not just as an affordable solution for one-to-one learning, but also as a feature-rich tool for field and lab work, often times replacing far more expensive and cumbersome devices and equipment.

#m-URV

• To design and pilot test the mobile phone supporting functions to enhance teacher development

• To develop short training courses and workshops, supporting resources, and interactive functions that are appropriate for the commonly used mobile phone in the local context.

• To explore the institutionalization mechanism to provide sustainable content development

Actions:

• Content creation w/ mobile devices

• Empower pre-service teacher’s with training regarding the use of mobile devices for T and L (UNESCO, 2012)

• Create training courses addressed to teachers on the pedagogical use of mobile devices.

#m-activities

#geolocalization#AR & QR

#show & tell w/ a cell#mstorytelling#scavenger hunts

#podcasting

www.guardian.co.uk

oEconomic pressures and new models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to the traditional models of higher education.

oDigital (and mobile) media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.

o3. Institutional barriers present formidable challenges to moving forward in a constructive way with emerging technologies.

#challenges

#questions

oHow will institutions respond to students bringing in their own mobile multimedia communications devices? BYOD

oHow can institutions manage the tension between informal networked learning and formal institutional learning?

oWhat types of mobile learning are appropriate and cost-effective for colleges, universities and the workplace?

… and some #conclusions

1.- There is the need to envision the transformation of teaching and learning for 21st-century skills and citizenship, including emerging mobile technologies.

2.- There is a growing emphasis in higher education on non-traditional learning models, which is further fueled by the integration of mobile and emerging technologies.

3.- Education paradigms are shifting to include mobile learning, at the time that there is new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based and active learning. Pedagogical training of teachers becomes essential and key.

mar.camacho@urv.cat | twitter.com/marett

Merci