Putting Mobile Back into Mobile Learning Mark van ‘t Hooft, PhD 2011 Mobile Learning Experience...

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Mobile LearningMobile Learning

Mark van ‘t Hooft, PhD

2011 Mobile Learning ExperiencePhoenix, AZ

Theories of Mobile Theories of Mobile LearningLearning

Mobile DevicesMobile Devices

Mobile LearnersMobile Learners

Mobile SocietyMobile Society

TheThe mLearning revolution mLearning revolution has merely providedhas merely provided “mobile learning in the classroom.” “mobile learning in the classroom.” (Nash, 2009)(Nash, 2009)

Mobility in physical and digital space, Mobility in physical and digital space, mobility and flexibility of technology mobility and flexibility of technology and content, mobility in conceptual and content, mobility in conceptual space.space.

Interacting with a desktop computer takes place in a bubble, in dedicated times and places where the learner has their back to the world for a substantial and probably premeditated episode. Interacting with a mobile is different and woven into all the times and places of people’s lives…

Desktop technologies operate in their own small world, mobile technologies operate in the world. (Traxler, 2010)

MobileMobile Learning Means… Learning Means…

… going beyond just mobile technologies or delivering content to mobile devices.

MobileMobile Learning Means… Learning Means…

“…being able to operate successfully in and across new and ever changing contexts and learning spaces.” (Pachler, 2009)

MobileMobile Learning Means… Learning Means…

…real and digital realms augment each other.

MobileMobile Learning Means… Learning Means…

… learning as constructivist, situated, collaborative, informal, and lifelong.

MobileMobile Learning Means… Learning Means…

… emphasizing 21st century skills.

So How Do We Do So How Do We Do This?This?

Possibilities …Possibilities …

Frequency 1550

Possibilities …Possibilities …

London Street Museumhttp://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MuseumOfLondon/Resources/app/you-are-here-app/index.html

Possibilities …Possibilities …

Environmental Detectives

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

CloudBank

Possibilities …Possibilities …

Possibilities …Possibilities …

MyArtSpace (now Ookl)

World War II Memorial in Washington DC

(2009 NECC Conference).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M70AtlLy_ns

Possibilities …Possibilities …Learning activities using cell phones, QR codes, and digital content.

Denver’s Public Art (ISTE 2010 Conference.)

http://www.youtube.com/group/SIGMLtour

Food for ThoughtFood for Thought

Importance of “place”. The question is how to best balance physical and digital “places” to get the best out of both.

Milgram & Kishino, 1994

Food for ThoughtFood for Thought

Meet learners half-way and take advantage of the technology skills they already have, but teach them how to use these skills for learning. Don’t assume they already know.

Food for ThoughtFood for Thought

Learning lasts a lifetime, and we can and should teach our students how to take advantage of digital technologies for that purpose.

Thank You!Thank You!

Mark van ‘t Hooftmvanthoo@kent.edu

http://ubiquitousthoughts.wordpress.com

Twitter: @dutchboyinohio

ReferencesReferences Klopfer, E. (2008). Augmented learning: Research and design

of mobile educational games. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Nash, C. (2009). The end of the mLearning revolution.

Handheld Learning. Retrieved from http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/content/view/60/

Pachler, N. (2009, April). Pedagogical issues and mobile learning. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Pemberton, L., Winter, M., & Fallakhair, S. (2010). Collaborative mobile language sharing for mobile learners. RCETJ, 6(1), 144-148. Retrieved from http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/view/76

Polson, D. , & Morgan, C. (2010). Towards an intelligent learning system for the natural born cyborg. RCETJ, 6(1), 185-193. Retrieved from http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/view/77

Traxler, J. (2010). The sustainable university. Retrieved from http://profjohntraxler.blogspot.com/2010/10/sustainable-university.html

Image CreditsImage Credits21st Century Skills:http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id

=254&Itemid=119 CloudBank: http://cloudbankblog.blogspot.com/p/about.html Designing Learning Spaces:

http://www.mobilearner.org/2008/07/how-to-design-learning-space.html Environmental Detectives: http://education.mit.edu/ar/ed.html Frequency 1550: http://www.waag.org/project/frequentieFrequency 1550 Cartoon:

http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/121.jpg ISTE Conference Denver: Stephanie Greenhut.Layar:

http://site.layar.com/company/blog/make-your-own-layar-screen-shot-with-the-dreamcatcher/

London Street Museum: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MuseumOfLondon/Resources/app/you-are-here-app/index.html & http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/AboutUs/Newsroom/Streetmuseum+app.htm

Mobile phone map (Sara): http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/8782/sara-augmented-reality-architecture-application.html

Student Profile: http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/view/77/194 vCommunicator Mobile:

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/washington/news.aspx?id=79769&print=1