MOBILE LEARNING CONNECTING FORMAL AND INFORMAL Kim Flintoff
MOBILE LEARNINGCONNECTING FORMAL AND INFORMAL
Kim Flintoff
THEMATIC WORKING GROUP #2http://www.curtin.edu.au/edusummit/local/docs/edusummit2015-ebook.pdf
MOBILE IS ABOUT ACTION, NOT DEVICES
Erin Reilly
Image by Tom Cochrane: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/4972619950
MOBILE LEARNING
A REVOLUTIONARY TURN
▸ Continuous Learning
▸ Educational Leapfrogging
▸ Lifelong Learning (and Teaching)
▸ Removing Gender Boundaries
▸ New Literacies (or Fluencies)
▸ Advancing the “long tail” of education
▸ Shifting roles for teachers and learners
▸ Changing practices of delivery, engagement and consumption
▸ Transforming traditional education institutions
▸ Paving the way for customisation and personalisation
from http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669896/10-ways-that-mobile-learning-will-revolutionize-education
21ST CENTURY ESSENTIALS:FOOD, SHELTER AND SIM CARD
New York Times/TIME
MOBILE LEARNING
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-shelter-smartphone.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0http://time.com/4062120/see-how-smartphones-have-become-a-lifeline-for-refugees/
MOBILE LEARNING
PEDAGOGY
▸ Shifting to contextualised learning
▸ Not a portal to the classroom
▸ Appropriately scaled
▸ Learner centred
▸ Positive Interdependence
▸ Authentic
▸ New assessment models Kearney, M., Schuck, S., Burden, K., & Aubusson, P. (2012). Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective. Research In Learning Technology, 20. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v20i0.14406
MOBILE LEARNING
POLICY
▸ Link with broader educational policy
▸ Bans are not the way forward
▸ Teachers’ professional learning
▸ Prioritise diversity
▸ Support evolving practice
▸ Accessibility - UDL
▸ Address equity issues
▸ Connectivity as a right
▸ Safety
▸ Ongoing Improvement
unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002196/219641e.pdf
MOBILE LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY
Image: Wilgengebroed on Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/wilgengebroed/8249565455/
▸ Wearables
▸ Smart Textiles
▸ Screen devices
▸ Internet of Things
▸ Sensors
▸ Communication
▸ Data
MOBILE LEARNING
RESEARCH
▸ Consider impact of informal learning
▸ SoTL - Mobile strategies for educators
▸ Social impact of mobile learning
▸ New modes of assessment
▸ Big DataStudents’ Mobile Learning Practices in Higher Education: A Multi-Year Study (2015)by Baiyun Chen, Ryan Seilhamer, Luke Bennett and Sue Bauerhttp://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/6/students-mobile-learning-practices-in-higher-education-a-multiyear-study
MOBILE LEARNING
QUANTIFIED LEARNER▸ Learners become transmedial
▸ Always on
▸ Learners as data engines
▸ Augmented cognition
▸ Personalisation and individualisation
Keoni Cabral - Wearable Technologyhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/keoni101/7069578953
MOBILE LEARNING
REIMAGINING THE LEARNER AS TRANSMEDIALBronfenbrenner, 1979
Flintoff and Howell, 2015
MOBILE LEARNING
ENABLING AND SUPPORTING MOBILITY
MOBILE LEARNING
ENABLING AND SUPPORTING MOBILITY
MOBILE LEARNING
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
http://www.scoop.it/t/mobile-learning-in-higher-education