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SXSW 2012: Three Innovative Approaches to Mobile Learning. Presented by Angela Maeirs, Katherine Burdick, Tom Wolf, Matt Federoff. Add your photo's guys!. Tom Wolf After School Learning esparklearning. Angela Maiers Emcee @angelamaiers angelamaiers.com. Matt Federoff 1:1 Mobile
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SXSW 2012:Three Innovative Approaches to Mobile Learning Presented by Angela Maeirs, Katherine Burdick, Tom Wolf, Matt Federoff
Add your photo's guys! Tom Wolf After School Learning esparklearning Angela Maiers Emcee @angelamaiers angelamaiers.com Matt Federoff 1:1 Mobile Vail ISD Katherine Burdick Blended Learning @iAppleLearner katherineburdick.com
Schools Should Blend Mobile Learning with Traditional Approaches Katherine Burdick Learning A-Z
Schools are not ready for Mobile LearningMoney is not there to buy the hardware, train the administration and staff, buy the softwareSome teachers are not tech savy and have no desire to beThere is not enough software to create a complete mobile curriculum
Blended Learning is the Solution • Core Instruction comes from textbook, traditional ways • Mobile Devices provide supplemental instruction and practice
Three Ways to use Mobile Devices to Blend Instruction • Use Mobile apps as a motivational tool to provide additional practice. • Use Mobile apps as another way to practice the same text material • Use mobile apps alongside other apps or text
Use Mobile apps as a motivational tool to provide additional practice. 1. stats on kids with mobile devices 2. stats on kids turned on by technology who are turned off by books 3. allows for constructivist learning, get kids out of their seats using text messaging, cameras,
Use Mobile apps as another way to practice the same text material 1. www.readinga-z.com Offers close to 900 leveled readers grades k-5 delivered online as a printable PDF, a projectable, as an ebook, and as two kinds of apps in the Apple app store - THE EXACT SAME BOOK delivered FOUR different ways.
2. www.kaeden.com 300 books leveled to common Core available in soft cover print, 100 have matching apps with progress monitoring and are correlated to Common Core.
Use mobile apps alongside other apps or text 1. Tools 4 Students - 25 graphic organizers that students can use alongside literature to chart story structure and character growth 2. Puppet pals - enables users to clip characters off of websites or within apps to create a puppet show retelling 3. Show Me - interactive white board app - import pages and annotate them to show cause and effect etc. 4. Rover - app that allows you to access flash webpages 5. Thousands of math apps that help with automaticity of math operations e.g.Rocket math
PRO meets school budgets meets many teachers where they are most comfortable motivates and engages students to learn CON app developers and publishers tend to be different companies many teachers nearing retirement and do not want to learn the new technologies professional development needed to train teachers and students Blended Pro/Con