{"id":11845,"date":"2016-12-06T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2016-12-12T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:53:35","slug":"lesson-ideas-for-mobile-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/lesson-ideas-for-mobile-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Ideas for Mobile Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New media educator Howard Rheingold interviews educator Shelly Terrell about her new book, which highlights the power of students&#8217; mobile devices to drive learning in and out of the classroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I knew that I had to talk with <a href='http:\/\/www.shellyterrell.com\/' target='_blank'>Shelly Sanchez Terrell<\/a> again when I learned through the tweetvine that she had a new book out about mobile learning (<em><a href='http:\/\/the-round.com\/resource\/learning-to-go\/' target='_blank'>Learning to Go: Lesson Ideas for Teaching with Mobile Devices, Cell Phones, and BYOT<\/a><\/em>). Six years ago, my interview with and <a href='http:\/\/dmlcentral.net\/shelly-terrell-global-netweaver-curator-pln-builder\/' target='_blank'>blog post<\/a> about Terrell\u2019s netweaving turned out to be a useful resource when I sought to explain to educators the value and how-to of personal learning networks. She\u2019s a teacher who teaches teachers. She\u2019s taught in more than 20 countries! She\u2019s currently adjunct professor At Alamo Community College in San Antonio, Texas. I\u2019ve learned a great deal from her.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/191095092\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" align=\"center\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I taught social media literacies at Berkeley and Stanford for years, and although we regularly used forums, wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and video chat, I only used the power of my students\u2019 mobile devices once \u2014 toward the end of my last teaching year. I had been encouraging students to take charge of their learning. They took turns co-teaching with me, they shared their \u201clearner lectures\u201d with me and each other, and they learned together in public through WordPress blogs they had installed and configured themselves. With three weeks left in the quarter, I wrote on the whiteboard all the activities I required of them (blog and forum posts, co-teaching, maintaining the lexicon wiki, were a few). I then wrote my phone number on the board and told them to revise the curriculum to their own liking for the remainder of the quarter. I wouldn\u2019t return until they texted me, and they were free to text me questions while they constructed their new syllabus. They texted me with questions while I walked around campus, and after 45 minutes (of a three hour class), they told me to return. I had written in red marker and they revised it in blue marker. But, that was the extent of my experimentation with mobile learning.<\/p>\n<p>I dealt with the issue of laptops in classrooms by encouraging students to become aware of when, how, and why they were using them. We experimented with \u201cattention probes\u201d (for example, only five students out of 20 could have their laptops open at the same time). And, I made it clear to those who were strongly focused on their grades that in a small seminar, it is abundantly clear to the teacher which students pay attention and which students regularly check out. But, I never tried to harness the power of the devices every student carries and to which many students devote much of their time. In retrospect, this was my failure. I had talked with <a href='http:\/\/connectedlearning.tv\/personal-stories\/bryan-alexander-mobile-learning-equity-and-future-education' target='_blank'>Bryan Alexander<\/a> about mobile learning affordances and mobile learning and equity, but I didn\u2019t make a plan or experiment. If I was starting out today, I\u2019d use Terrell\u2019s book.<\/p>\n<p>In our conversation, Terrell mentioned her use of <a href='https:\/\/quizlet.com\/mobile' target='_blank'>Quizlet<\/a>, which enables students to gamify their study and review material on their mobile devices. Most importantly, she emphasized, was helping students begin to see their smartphones as tools for learning anywhere and anytime, not just in the classroom or in study sessions. &#8220;When we do that, we also help them do something very powerful by taking a step toward their autonomy as a learner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are teaching students today, don\u2019t ignore the most powerful media affordance in the classroom. Listen to Shelly Terrell and start experimenting with mobile learning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally Published at <a href='http:\/\/dmlcentral.net\/lesson-ideas-mobile-learning\/' target='_blank'>dml central<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New media educator Howard Rheingold interviews professor Shelly Terrell about her new book, which highlights the power of students&#8217; mobile devices to drive learning in and out of the classroom.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":11847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[78,711,864,591],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11846,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions\/11846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}