Putting Learning in Student Pockets: The Case for Mobile Learning

1. Putting Learning in Student Pockets:The Case for Mobile Learning Berlin Fang Luke Hartman Heartland ConferenceMarch, 2010

4. If Mobile learning is the answer, what is the question?

5. The ME-Generation Mobile+Electronic

6. Mobile workforce

9. Jesus taught anywhere, anytime

12. Academic value for students 97% of our students (N=428) think that having a laptop is useful for them academically.

15. Professors vs. gadgets

16. The big ban theory

17. Problems with restrictive approaches • “An Apple [the computer] a day keeps professors away” : Professor vs. Laptop? • “Innovator, early adopter, early majority, late majority, my professor” • “I don’t trust you can put learning in your own hands”

18. Contain or channel

21. Delicious distraction “Historically accumulating structural tensions within and between activity systems…generate disturbances and conflicts, but also innovative attempts to change the activity.” Jyri Engestrom University of Helsinki

23. Medium Message Method

24. Tool Subject Object Outcome Community Division of Labor Rule Anatomy of an activity

25. How not to integrate mobile technology • Failing to motivate • Creating fear of job security • Having a bad introduction • Taking vendor promises too literally • Leaving technology take charge • Failing to adapt to change • Having technology dominate teaching

26. Integration into the classroom • Motivate learners • Organize content • Be the model • Institute rules • Leverage tools • Evaluate results

27. Inclusive approaches:Contract with Students “If your cellular phone is heard by the class, you are responsible for completing one of two options: 1. Before the end of the class period you will sing a verse and chorus of any song of your choice or, 2. You will lead the next class period through a 10-minute discussion on a topic to be determined by the end of the class. (To the extent that there are multiple individuals in violation, duets will be accepted).”

28. Enriching the class

29. On-the-fly learning

30. Creating opportunities for collaboration

31. Extending the classroom:“Blizzard lecture”

32. Extending the classroom: “Food for thought”

34. Extending the classroom: Mobile rehearsal

35. Extending the classroom: Greek to go

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37. THANK YOU Berlin Fang Berlin.fang@oc.edu Luke Hartman Luke.hartman@oc.edu Oklahoma Christian University