mLearning: Mobile Devices As Research, Communication, and Teaching Tools

Chad M. GesserAssistant Professor of Sociology

Owensboro Community and Technical Collegechad.gesser@kctcs.edu

mLearning: Mobile Devices As Research, Communication, and Teaching Tools

Anything in particular you’d like to learn/discuss in this session?

Web 1.0: here’s a web page I’ve created, I control the information you read, you digest it…now move along

---totalitarian Web 2.0: here is information I’ve created and shared with you. You can share it with others, we can discuss it, it can be built upon, it can be easily manipulated. Care to collaborate?---decentralized/democratized

“The Web is no longer just a way to receive information – it is a medium for commenting, collaborating and creating.”

Oblinger, Diana. "Growing Up with Google - What it Means to Education,'" Emerging Technologies for Learning, vol. 4, (March 2008).

“As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”

-by Nicholas Carr

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Wired Magazine, Issue 16.07, July 2008

Wired Magazine, Issue 16.07, July 2008

Source: Sharples, Mike, Josie Taylor, and Giasemi Vavoula. 2006. “A Theory of Learning for the Mobile Age” http://mlearning.noe-kaleidoscope.org/repository/TheoryOfLearningForMobileAge.pdf and http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/msh/Papers/Theory%20of%20Mobile%20Learning.pdf

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_learning

Source: http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14483856

how it can be applied in the classroom,

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/science/06uganda.html?_r=2

Source: http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14483896

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-smartphone-sales-to-beat-pc-sales-by-2011-2009-8

Source: http://mashable.com/2009/06/14/new-media-iran/

Source: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Iran+Riots+2009&s=rec

Source: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=iran+election

Real Life Examples and Discussion

Chad M. GesserAssistant Professor of Sociology

Owensboro Community and Technical Collegechad.gesser@kctcs.edu

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mLearning: Mobile Devices As Research, Communication, and Teaching Tools