Less is More

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Less is More

• M-Learning with Cell Phones

Lucy Haagen, Program in Education CIT Showcase
April 24, 2009
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Todays Workshop

• Introduction to M-Learning with Mobile Phones
  Rationale and Resources
• Mobile Phones and Civic Engagement
• Local and Global Examples
• From Margin to Mainstream Future Possibilities

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What is M-Learning?
Use of mobile devices to produce an anytime,
anywhere learning experience
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M-Learning in Context
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Why Mobile Phones?

• Ubiquitous
• Web 2.0 compatible
• Platform of choice for under 30s
• Compatibility
• Portability
• Eco-friendly
• Promotes multiple modes of interaction

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Rationale and Resources (USA)

• Horizon Report (http//www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizo
  n-Report.pdf)
• New interfaces, the ability to run third-party
  applications, and location-awareness have all
  come to the mobile device in the past year,
  making it an ever more versatile tool that can be
  easily adapted to a host of tasks for learning,
  productivity, and social networking.

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Mobile Phone Use Explosion
Source lTU World Communications Database, 2009
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China Mobile Phone Use Outstrips Web Use
(000S)
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Millennials Use of Cell Phones

• SMS text messaging outstrips phone calls
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Source Harris interactive, January, 2009
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What functions do you currently use?

• Phone Call
• SMS                
• Email
• Web Browsing
• Camera for images
• Camera for video
• Voice recorder
• Video player
• Text Reader
• Music/Audio Player
• Games

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Free/Affordable Mobile Phone Applications

• Polling (ex polleverywhere.com)
• Google Maps
• Speaking Dictionaries China2go
• Adobe Reader
• MP3 file translator
• Gcast (podcasting)
• Jott (audio to print memo)
• Free SMS Messaging
• Twitter!

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Mobile Phones and Civic Engagement Southern
High School, Durham NCSpring, 2008

• Service Learning Seminar Teaching ESL
• Ranked bottom 10 percent of NC High Schools
• End of Course Test Passage Rate for LEP (Limited
  English Proficient) 16.7 percent
• Cooperating English and World History Teachers

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M-Learning Goals

• Increase oral presentation skills
• Write personal essay
• Research world-historical figure (One of
  historys troublemakers)
• Develop multimedia Powerpoint Presentation

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Project Activities

• Voice Message Board Duke Student Response
• Ask an Expert link between Southern students
  and Duke professors
• Old Fashioned Call your Coach link between
  Southern Students and Duke learning coaches.
• Voice Recording Audio Narration
• Podcasting This I Believe (Sample Podcast)
• Incentives Extra Cellphone Minutes for
  productivity

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What Didnt Work

• Southern Students and Duke Students did not talk
  by phone

• Southern Students did not make productive use
  of phones outside of school

• Incentives didn't work as motivators

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What Did Work

• Audio Recording
• Ask the Expert Message Board
• Personalized Podcasting
• Project-Based Learning in Small Groups
• Team-Teaching

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Indicators of Success

• Project Completion Rate
• Student Attendance During Project Period
• LEP Student Test Results (16.7 percent to 30.1
  percent passage rate)
• Student and Teacher Satisfaction

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Mobile Phones and Civic EngagementNorth Vietnam
Summer, 2008
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Mobile Applications and Purposes

• Group Text Messaging
• Free English-Vietnamese Dictionary
• Photo Images of Key Locations
• Photo Log of Students

• Maximize Mobility and Safety of Students in
  Foreign Environment

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Community Building Documentation

• Audio Diaries

Photo-journalism
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SMS Poetry
When I vIsted the orphanage, I went with
balloons, hard candies, Old National
Geographics The children grabbed for everything.
I gave one a candy, others screamed Until seven
or eight were clawing at my legs. They popped the
balloons, Choked on the candies Shredded the
magazines I looked over to the nun for help. She
stopped ladling gruel into the communal
trough Next time, if you come, Bring enough for
everyone, or bring nothing. Wendy Wilder Larson
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Direct Service

• Oral English Assessment
• Electronic Alphabet Book
• Personal Audio Dictionary
• Literacy through Photography

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Project Documentaton
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In the Works

• MUbuntu Mobile
• Phones Empowering
• Primary School Teachers
• to Address South Africas
• Literacy Crisis

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Mobile Phones in Your Course

• Share a specific example of how you could use of
  mobile phones in one of your own courses or
  projects. Be sure that the mobile phone is not a
  just a possible technology but actually a
  preferable one.
• Course ..Application/Feature..Purpose
• Try calling and leaving your suggestions through
  SayNow 919-521-4775