This document discusses mobile learning (mLearning) and the use of mobile technologies in education. It defines mLearning as the acquisition of knowledge and skills using mobile devices that results in behavioral changes. Mobile devices allow for flexible and self-directed learning anywhere and anytime. While mobile technologies engage students and enhance learning, their integration poses challenges around equitable access, distraction, and network security. Studies show mobile programs can improve student outcomes when properly implemented in a one-to-one model.

1. Week 11
mLearning +

2. http://www.roadtogrammar.com/
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/12/yout
ube-for-schools/

3. The term “mobile technology" refers to any device
that is designed to provide access to information in
any location, or while on the move. Specifically this
would include, but not be limited to mobile phones,
personal digital assistants (PDA), tablet computers,
and laptops.
There is a great emphasis placed on self directed
learning.
The behaviourist idea of an “alteration in behaviour”
is used because as the information age continues to
progress, more people will be gaining more
knowledge, more often and more easily. However,
without an alteration in behaviour, it is not deemed
to be learning.
Figure 1 is a graphic representation of M learning,
which in this instance is synonymous with flexible
learning. It details the time issue by showing that if
information is a) not available, b) not available at a
certain time or place, or c) is the incorrect
information, and does not result in the required
behavioural change, then time is expended
unproductively.
mLearning is the acquisition of any knowledge and skill
using mobile technology, anywhere, anytime, that results in
an alteration of behaviour.
Geddes, 2004

4. What‟s on the horizon?
The Horizon Report: Technologies to Watch
K-12 Report 2011
 E-books
 Mobiles
 Augmented reality
 Game based learning
 Gesture-based
computing
 Learning analytics
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report.pdf
Aust-NZ Report 2010
• E-books
• Mobiles
• Augmented reality
• Open content
• Gesture-based
computing
• Visual data analysis
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report-ANZ.pdf

5. Students prefer mobile devices for
learning anywhere, anytime
Educators are realising their benefits as
productive tools
Parents accept them as learning tools and
are buying them for their children
For school budgets, 1:1 is achievable
Convergence of mobile technology and
social software (Web 2.0)
Why the shift in thinking?
Project Tomorrow (2010) Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it Mobile!
http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/MobileLearningReport_2010.html

6.  Teacher concerns about distraction
 Equitable access to mobile devices
 How to integrate them effectively
 Professional learning
 Network security
 Students can‟t use their own devices
at school
Challenges
Project Tomorrow (2010) Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it
Mobile!
http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/MobileLearningReport_2010.
html

7. Project Tomorrow (2010) Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it Mobile!
http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/MobileLearningReport_2010.html

8. Mobile learning is…
„learning in a more personalised way, handing
over more control to the learners themselves‟
„disruptive learning‟
(Stead, 2006)
„holds and heightens student interest, engages
students in learning, and provides yet another
means for expressive and receptive literacy‟
(Dogeby,
2007)
The difference is…

9. „a small, cleverly designed handheld game can
significantly enhance learner performance in
mental maths as well as having a positive impact
on other aspects of classroom life‟
(Robertson, 2009)
„mobile devices can have a positive impact on
learning experiences for both educators and
students‟
(McFarlane, Triggs& Yee, 2008; Ng & Nicholas, 2009)

10. „Schools with one-to-one computing
programs have fewer discipline problems,
lower dropout rates, and higher rates of
college attendance than schools with a
higher ratio of students to computers…but
for one-to-one programs to boost student
achievement as well, they must be
properly implemented.‟
Project Red (Revolutionizing
Education) June 2010

11. (ed. Wan Ng, Nov 2010)
Chapter 12
Imagine Mobile
Learning in your
Pocket
Cecilie Murray, Delphian
eLearning
http://www.igi-
global.com/bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=41
770
K-12 research

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ehDAP1OQ9Zw

13. http://icafe.lcisd.org/student-response-system-showdown
http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/index.php

14. Students taking pictures of 3-
dimensional figures in order to add
lines of symmetry, make
transformations, slides, flips, etc.
http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/
12_animated_plays_by_william_shakes
peare_macbeth_julius_caesar_romeo_j
uliet_and_more.html
Notability
Penultimate
http://handheldlearninginpe.com/
MagicPlan app

15. Ambient Intelligent Learning
AmI is the vision that technology will become invisible, ubiquitous, enabled by effortless interactions, and
aware of and autonomously adaptive to, its environment and users. It will provide high quality
information and will be available to any user, anywhere, at any time, and on any device (Lindwer et al
2003).

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Geddes, S. J. (2004). Mobile learning in the 21st century: benefit for learners
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Project Red http://www.projectred.org/
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It‟s Mobile, but is it learning?
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