User:Vtaylor/Mobile classroom

what completely new things might be afforded by mobile media for learning. 

Using cell phones responsibly for teaching and learning


 * great ideas, step-wise refinement
 * roles and responsibilities - acceptable use policy AUP
 * surveys, usage agreements, family participation, community involvement
 * K-8 subjects
 * self-serve learning
 * assessment, evaluation, feedback
 * teachers are learners too
 * textbooks, functional equivalent

== check this out==


 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JOsrEsyo0 Teaching with iPads


 * Explain Everything $2.99 - easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2

== getting started==


 * information gathering - interest, objections > benefits, value
 * examples of use, apps, lessons - demonstrate value, learning experience, benefits, convenience
 * status - kids, school, parents - cellphone availability survey, agreements, rules - acceptable use policy
 * plan - pilot, phased intro, evaluation, feedback, revise, repeat

and then...
 * what completely new things might be afforded by mobile media for learning.

== activities==
 * Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.

outdoors, discovery, impromptu


 * math - geometric shapes - pictures, discussion
 * science - turtle - rate calculation, geolocation, distance, stopwatch

language learning
 * translation, vocabulary practice games

STEM
 * elements

collaboration, communication
 * portable, readily available, asynchronous, anywhere, anytime

textbook
 * electronic, portable

self-serve, personalized, informal
 * expand interest beyond textbook, assignments - what to do when I have completed all "the work"
 * multi modal - audio, video, text, images
 * construction - summarize, reformat, create, enhance
 * ownership, motivation

learning
 * web access, search
 * reading
 * writing - journal, blog, storytelling
 * quiz
 * photo - photoblog, moblog
 * audio
 * video

teaching
 * recording grades
 * capturing whiteboard image
 * accepting assignments
 * tracking student behavior - time/date annotations, protected

something completely different
 * ?? couldn't do before

limitations
 * range of functionality
 * cost of service

== apps, accessories==

Kids' suggestions
 * instagram - pictures
 * notes, text message
 * calculator

Teachers use
 * secret diary
 * camera
 * mapquest
 * text message
 * calculator - grading
 * ?? assignment document submission
 * edmodo - as mobile?

Reviewed, recommended, highlighted


 * Education App Evaluation Rubric


 * storytelling with pictures, text,audio, video - Storyrobe

Accessories
 * microscope

Look into... without fear of sharing with the wrong people.
 * Social Networks, Small and Smaller - On Path, FamilyLeaf and Pair, users can post information
 * funding * mini grants - iPads, accessory, take-home, service plans, audio hosting
 * audio recording, call-in

== Learn more...==
 * toward a school of one - personal learning
 * kids' generated lists
 * teachers' stories, teaching, supporting learning
 * gamification of learning
 * adminstrivia
 * special needs, adult learners

Digital learning devices survey
 * standard cellphone - voice only
 * voice, camera
 * voice, camera, text
 * Android
 * iPhone
 * other smartphone
 * iPod Touch
 * other iPod or MP3 player
 * Nintendo DS
 * Sony PSP

== Resources==
 * classroom tools
 * subject matter experts
 * Wikispaces wikis
 * reviews, reviewers