Day 1-International Symposium-Professional Dev Session

During this last session of the day, there were a lot of thoughts and research on mobile learning. My last notes are simply ramblings of tidbits captured from the conversations. Some are not complete thoughts but may spark later conversations. We need to scrutinize and think through this technology and what it means in our learning environment. We should proceed but proceed carefully. Day 1 --Professional Learning for Mobile Learning--Part 3 "mlearning." We may need discuss changing to Mobile Education which combines Mobile learning and Mobile teaching??? Article: Rethinking State and School district Policies Concerning MobileTechnologies and Social Media Goal: Develop a tool to help stateholders reflect on mobile learning and identify priorities. Check out CoSN's materials at http://www.cosn.org/Initiatives/ParticipatoryLearning/Home/tabid/7112/Default.aspx Note: I don't believe the document MAKING PROGRESS: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media has been published as of today 3/5/2012. How ready are you for Mobile Learning...Six Elements 1. Leadership and management 2. Planning 3. Learning 4. Assessment of mobile capability 5. Professional development 6. Resources Closing Speaker: John Traxler, Professor of Mobile Learning from University of Wolverhampton Visions for mLearning ICT--Information and Communication Technologies. Scale--Can what we do with mobile devices be scaled? The difference in mobile learning is that students have their own. If we try to give them one from school, it will be left behind. Much like email accounts, we find that secondary students have their own email account and do not use the one the school provides them. But what about the handfull of students that do not have their own account. Those few justify our schools need to provide Google gmail accounts to ensure equity. Won't the same apply for mobile devices? How will that look? When a teacher realizes that students may show up with a new device every day, the control shifts from the teacher to a sea of student users. What type of PD prepares one for this change? Education is industrialized as shown by the way student look/are arranged in rows from the days of the Industrial Revolution. Mobility, regardless of the mobile device, can change the physical arrangement of the room. There is a difference in a student that is competent in using a mobile device and a student that is competent in a sea of student where everyone uses a mobile device. What if we reframe Anytime Anywhere to Learning WHERE I need it WHEN I need it. Much to think about!