190 likes | 316 Views
SIMOLA: Helping Language Learners Bridge the Gap. Lyn Pemberton Marcus Winter Interactive Technologies Research Group University of Brighton, UK. ICT for Language Learning Florence 20-21 Oct 2011. The Mobile Phone as Menace.
E N D
SIMOLA: Helping Language Learners Bridge the Gap Lyn Pemberton Marcus Winter Interactive Technologies Research Group University of Brighton, UK ICTforLanguageLearning Florence20-21Oct2011
The Mobile Phone asMenace http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387291/Mobile-phones-wi-fi-banned-schools-theyre-potentially-harmful.html
The Mobile Phone as Swiss Army Knife recorder note book camera atlas/map calculator camera Web browser video camera text phone
What do we hope for our students? • Effective learning • Deep cognitive processing • Making and strengthening links between concepts • Memorisation, discussion, exams, essays, re-representations… • Making connections between different contexts – lecture theatre, lab, town, workplace, home, outdoors, media, etc (even different modules)
LingoBee – a mobile app to… Collect, annotate and tag unknown, interesting or odd language and culture related content found in everyday life in target language setting Pool these items with other language learners in an online repository and distribute them via rss or SMS alerts
design process design sessions focus groups
I saw this and thought of 18th Century rural economics What’s a free house?
I saw this and thought of 18th Century rural economics What’s a high street bank?
What’s the word/phrase? What’s the meaning? How would you tag it? Show me a picture Is there a link? How’s it pronounced? Hey that’s not right – I’ll write my own entry
Evaluation with University of Sussex pre-sessional language students • will international students use the system? • how do they use it? • what do teachers think? • does it help the students’ learning and engagement? ethics funding
and? • most suitable for advanced students • needs to be super-usable • phones need to belong to students • students like social media aspects (anonymity issue) • teachers found ways to integrate into classroom teaching and combine in- and outside class work • issues of authoritativeness and misuse phones ethics funding
What next? • SIMOLA – Lifelong Learning Project for European Union • Two years - EU 450,000- began Nov 2010 • Seven EU partners & Tokyo U of Agriculture and Technology • University of Brighton • Study Group, UK • Regional Community College of Amsterdam • University of Molise, Italy • Baltic Educational Technology Institute, Lithuania • Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim • Hungarian Virtual University ethics
Like to contribute? • If you have an Android phone, download the app and tell us what you think • Encourage Android-owning students to use it • See how online version goes down in class • Get RSS updates to your FaceBook or iGoogle page
Demouy, V. and A. Kukulska-Hulme.(2010). On the spot: using mobile devices for listening and speaking practice on a French language programme. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(3), pp. 217–232. • Kukulska-Hulme, A. & S. Bull (2009). Theory-based support for mobile language learning: noticing and recording. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 3(2), pp. 12–18. http://oro.open.ac.uk/15704/ • Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & S. Fallahkhair. 2009. A User Created Content Approach to Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Advanced Language Learners. Proceedings of mLearn 2009, Orlando, Florida, pp. 184-187. • Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & S. Fallahkhair. 2010. Collaborative Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Language Learners. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology,Vol 6, No 1 (2010) • http://rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/viewArticle/76
Thankyou–anyquestions? Lyn :Lyn.Pemberton@bton.ac.uk Marcus :Marcus.Winter@bton.ac.uk