W06: Mobile Learning

Thanks for sharing team! I think mobility and having appropriate uses for mobile devices have become beneficial in today's classroom. Students of today are a lot more tech-savvy and have so many useful capabilities on their smartphone. Having a well designed educational app/mobile friendly interface that allows students to take pictures, video record, send messages and post videos in collaboration with their teachers is very effective if done right. This week I reviewed FreshGrade and was impressed by it's features and how it can be easily accessed from a mobile device with specific apps for teachers, parents and students. This was one of the things that came to mind when reviewing your OER. Great work, I enjoyed the format, was very user friendly and straightforward.

Hey guys, Great work on this! I really enjoyed the content and the examples that you guys used. There is a lot to think about, especially as more and more students are accessing online content in more ways.

Great work team on putting together this presentation. I appreciate the use of Articulate Rise for this topic as it is one of the most responsive authoring programs for mobile devices. That said, it is not a platform that encourages interaction, but I think you managed this well with the use of padlet activities. I really appreciated learning about the SAMR model, as I was not familiar with this prior. I also appreciated your stance that mobile learning is not a solution for all learning contexts and contents. Great job!

Hello Robert, Kevin, Tyler, and Manize: Thank you for your presentation on mobile learning this week. A few takeaways I got were the SAMR model (as many other peers have mentioned) and the user-centric approach to technology development (which was mentioned in the "Mobile technology in education" video). Mobile devices are now (generally) ubiquitous in schools, and some of the challenges my colleagues and I face are in teaching students how and when to view and use their device as a personal tool vs an educational tool. Compared to the traditional technology of a notebook and pencil, which has limited functionality, a smartphone or laptop is designed to have multiple functions and leaves its purpose up to the user to define. I would be interested if you have any resources on how teachers and students are managing the multipurpose identities carried by personal electronic devices (focusing on BYOD for now, and ignoring one-to-one device programs).

Hello Week 6 Crew, Thank you for the guided tour through Mobile Learning. I think my biggest take away is the SAMR model. It's easy to remember the general idea of, which I take to be considering whether technology is replacing an old task/method or expanding upon it in a way that wasn't possible before. Definitely something I will take into consideration in my classroom as I look at new pieces of mobile technology.

Hi Mobile Learning Team, nicely done! I really like your OER; it contains a lot of useful information. I particularly like how you make a connection between Personalized Learning and Mobile Learning. For me it brought my attention to mobile devices in personalized learning.

Hi Team! Thank you for this OER. I have a decent amount of experience with mobile learning as a student, but only limited experience using it as a teacher. I appreciated your inclusion of the SAMR model, and especially enjoyed being introduced to Park's framework. I also really enjoyed the Padlet activities. By way of constructive feedback, I would suggest you consider replacing the SimplyInfo video on M-Learning in which the narrator does nothing but read all the text on every slide. It also only has static images, no animations, and some of the images look interesting but are not explained (e.g. the graphic on the right side at 1:43 that shows a VENN diagram with "d-learning" and "e-learning" and "m-learning". I'm not sure what "d-learning" refers to...) While it may have some decent ideas, the presentation is not an effective use of video. I wold take some of the best content out of the video, give attribution and present it yourself in a better way.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to review and look through our OER. We hope you have learned some more information about Mobile Learning.

Hey Guys, this was a great OER! Thank you so much for putting all of this information together. I enjoyed the variety of activities that you planted throughout the different sections, it was refreshing to also be able to choose the two activities that I wanted to contribute to. I can clearly see that you guys put a lot of effort and thoughtful design into our week's learning material. Since you guys focused more on K-7 students and perhaps even younger students whereas I am teaching at a very different age level (university), I was wondering if you think different age groups would have different benefits and challenges associated with mobile learning. Do you think the benefits and challenges you listed apply to the different age groups as a whole or should each age group be investigate separately for mobile learning in order to spot the advantages and pitfalls? Once again, thank you for all the work you put into this OER.

Thank you, team, for the engaging and informative OER. As others did, I used my mobile phone for most of the experience, and the user experience was flawless, with one exception, and really speaks to the importance of responsive design. The use of Articulate immediately piqued my interest, and while it certainly seems worth the price tag, I was happy to read about the open source software Adapt in the article about responsive design and will be looking into it as an option. As mentioned by Kendra, I couldn't select answers on the quiz, and when I switched over to my laptop I had the same issue until I figured out I had to start the quiz. I hadn't used Quizzlezz before, but I like how it has more features than Kahoot in terms of the random power-ups. Thank you again!