Most education and communication scholars agree that there are advantages and disadvantages to using mobile devices in the classroom.
What are some unique advantages to being able to use mobile devices in the classroom for educational purposes?
Any unique apps or programs used at your campus by students or faculty that are particularly successful?
Yes! I've seen a professor have students participate in discussion via Twitter, by posting questions and discussion points. I think it was both good and bad, as it took away certain aspects that the classroom brings to the table. I also felt that it was a tad distracting from the actual class itself. The professor addressed the questions and discussion points posted to Twitter at the end of class.
My students (Management discipline) use, for recording of class presentations by students and assisting to learn and self correct their behavior as part of communication development.
In one of earlier conference we used "tweets" as response to measure feedback
I have used mobile to enable students to interact with experts in field. example - while teaching judiciary I sometimes ring a friend of mine - advocate in Supreme Court of India. The students ask questions and she replies - a small interaction and bringing of the expert inside the class requiring no displacement - easy and informative.
A mike is required to amplify the voice across the room.
A good example : Use of mobile telephone to contact the teachers outside the class room. They can immediately contact in case they have doubts.
A bad example : Students using mobile devices inside the exam hall.
My visual advertising class had a some projects that required us to use our mobile phones to take pictures of some advertising campaigns outside of class. It was very convenient because mobile phones are portable and we could do the assignment even when we were out doing non school work.
My students have been using cell phone cameras to take pictures of what they observed under the microscope. This is faster than drawing, and more accurate too. Keeping images in the cell phone is also a good idea. Have a look of onion cells in interphase and mitosis (undergoing cell division).
Students have been using cell phone cameras to take pictures of plants, trees, animals (vertebrates and invertebrates) that they come across on our green campus. We compiled all the pictures in a Tropical Biodiversity chapter.
There are many instances showcasing innovative methods. With the IoTs innovations would grow. But one has to be careful of the student faculty engagements in classrooms. This area needs to be as holy as possible by brnging tools and technology as they are appropriate.
One of the most interesting classes I took in graduate school, at Texas Tech, with Dr. Rich Rice, involved one session in which we met virtually in a mobile environment. That meant Dr. Rice asked all of us to go about our days, like we would any other day, but just to have our mobile phone turned on and connected to our conference call, to experiment with learning in a free state of mobility. So some students went grocery shopping, some were in transit to other places, some were sitting on their living room couch, etc. I drove to a nearby lake and sat on a bench, enjoying the natural setting, on a sunny day, listening to the interesting discussion via my phone, and thinking more and more about how a classroom really should not be defined by its four walls and rows of chairs. It really should be about the engagement in the ideas, wherever those come, and in whatever forms, and the learning that happens (the long-term impact of this lesson, for example, is that I'm still thinking about this class today, more than six years later). If such learning can be achieved just as efficiently and effectively (or maybe even more so, since I felt very engaged by the freedom this scenario offered, and responsible, with this freedom, to perform my very best in the class), then what are some other ways that mobile technologies can enliven the learning environment? We shall see!
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Find the following URL may help you:
http://www.teachhub.com/20-amazing-ipad-apps-educators
https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/29/teacher-recommended-50-favorite-teaching-apps/
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