How do you think we can harness if not full, majority of advantages related to mobile learning in our day to day teaching and learning activities? Having seeing that majority of high school and tertiary education students turned to be more interested in their mobile phones more than anything else. How could we utilize that intimacy for educational purposes?
This type of learning favors students who own a cell phone, and it is also about economic possibilities and a good internet connection, so that students with few economic resources will be disadvantaged. It is also a geographical aspect because those students who live in areas far from the big cities, I mean, it is very likely that there is not even an internet connection or signal; be it of low quality, then these students even if they have a mobile, but bad or no internet connection, are at a disadvantage.
Assuming that all students have a cell phone with sufficient hardware features, and assuming that all students have a good Internet connection, then teachers will be able to propose teaching strategies that lead their students to a consolidated learning through the use of applications and platforms that promote the construction of concepts in different subjects of the curriculum. I clarify, as long as all students have the same conditions and opportunities.
Ubaida Adamu Muhammad
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Hi Ubaida,
Bearing in mind issues of accessibility and equity which Wilmer raised, here are some educational uses of mobile phones in classrooms:
1-Interactive learning: using phones to vote on a question through apps like Mentimetre.
2-Using them to do quick diagnostic tests of pupil knowledge on apps like polleverywhere.com
3-Using them as organisers/alarms/reminders of tasks either on notes or through apps like Remind101
4-Using them to make quick notes during discussion tasks when students need to report back: students seem to type faster than they write :-)
5-Using them to time oral presentations and debates.
6-Using many apps for social science research.
Having said this, teachers are not always happy about the use of mobile phones in classrooms. Read this below:
Article Secondary education teachers’ perceptions of mobile phone an...
Hope this helps.
Dima
Use the available technologies to your advantage as a teacher. There is no better way, to get students interested to the lessons, than to meet the students where they are now. There are not anymore inside the classroom, they are there in the cloud, in the cyber world.
Not right for eyes.
Not right for body health.
Class studies are better than mobile studies.
Use the available technologies to your advantage as a teacher. There is no better way, to get students interested to the lessons, than to meet the students where they are now.
Mobile learning affects negatively as children play video games in the name of studies. They also explore certain irrelevant sites which are unnecessary for them. But, as there is no substitute for face to face teaching during this covid-19 19 situation, so it is being used. Once, the schools and colleges reopen , there will be no use of it.
In my opinion, mobile learning is fully suitable, but at a rate of 50% for mature students, but for students in the basic stages, it is not valid, or let's say, only 20%
This talk is about an experience that is happening with me now
Its really interesting how you buttress about the mobile learning.
Let say we'll be using the mobile learning for university or college students, what do you think if adopted will be better, MOOCs or Flipped Learning Model?
This depends on the learner. Self-discipline is very important
A large number of applications in science education could be exploited, for example, for mathematics (geogebra), in chemistry ( http://mail.quadernsdigitals.net/datos_web/hemeroteca/r_1/nr_802/a_10814/10814.pdf ). These applications work on cell phones, and it would be a matter of using these mobile applications for learning science in virtual or face-to-face classes.
I think it benefits the students, because they are very interested in using the cell phone, and you can use in the classroom some application for teaching and learning of some science, or review and read some material online, all this can promote learning.
It is important the mobile learning, because you can develop classes with different applications and even some just need to download them. Due to the great acceptance of the use of the mobile, it is interesting to make comparative studies to test the real effects in the learning of any science.
I believe that we should take advantage of the fact that students frequently use their cell phones to draw up teaching strategies for some sciences, with a great variety of applications for mobiles that exist today. The strategies should include a certain amount of time for the student to use the applications for the construction of their own learning.
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