This article describe the use of mobile devices in a K-12 setting but there are some lessons for higher education.
Note the comment from Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. He says to use mobile devices effectively schools will have to reinvent their curriculum and the way it's taught. "For a district to do this well, they have to look at how the device is going to help change the pedagogy," he says. "It's important to understand that the device itself isn't the innovation. People can't just digest worksheets and stick them on a cell phone and think that's going to be some kind of breakthrough. Good curriculum has to be rethought—not so much transferred, but more creatively redesigned. It's a question of our being willing to be creative and recognize the opportunities available, to look at this small computer as something that has new potential to redesign education."
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http://www.districtadministration.com/article/mobile-devices-drive-creative-instruction
March 15, 2012
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From the article: "...In the classroom, he sends students math problems on their mobile learning devices, varying the questions depending on each student’s ability..."
I think that mobile learning is gaining traction and it may become the new adhesive layer between f2f and distance ed. Currently LMSs are pretty good as an interface between the two modes but I wonder how a D2L site is displayed on a smartphone.
The new technologies have penetrated so deeply in to everyday life (read iPhone, iPad, iPod and their derivatives) we must find ways to take advantage of these devices or else they will hijack the class, I'm afraid.
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