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Educating the Mobile Generation: Use Mobile Learning!

Educating the Mobile Generation: Use Mobile Learning!. Cathleen Norris, PhD GoKnow Co-Founder, Chief Education Architect Regents Professor, University of North Texas Elliot Soloway, PhD GoKnow Co-Founder, CEO Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan. Today’s Story.

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Educating the Mobile Generation: Use Mobile Learning!

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  1. Educating the Mobile Generation: Use Mobile Learning! Cathleen Norris, PhD GoKnow Co-Founder, Chief Education Architect Regents Professor, University of North Texas Elliot Soloway, PhD GoKnow Co-Founder, CEO Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan

  2. Today’s Story • How do we educate… mobile generation? • Cellphone Computers: Inevitable • Success stories 2

  3. Work force “Kids these days” WorldHASChanged Industrial  Knowledge-work Digital  Mobile

  4. Pencil and Paper is BORING!!! “Outside of school, technology is essential to their lives.” Julie Evans, Speak Up Day Educating the Mobile Generation “I’m learning my way”

  5. 21st Century Skills • To teach 21st century skills & content… • …..Need 21st century tools • 1:1 5

  6. 1:1 Laptops: Learn from U.S. Failures • Missing Pieces: NOT Integrated !! • 1. Educational Software • 2. Professional Development • 3. Sustainable

  7. 21st Century Skills • To teach 21st century skills & content… • …..Need 21st century tools • 1:1 • Mobile 7

  8. Mobile Technologies Safe ! Cellphone Computer Netbooks

  9. 21st Century Skills • To teach 21st century skills & content… • …..Need 21st century tools • 1:1 • Mobile • Essential - Not Add-on 9

  10. Computers are an Add-on 10

  11. The cellphone computer at the hub of activity ESSENTIAL for Learning Trinity Meadows Intermediate, Keller, TX

  12. GoKnow’s Mobile Learning Environment (MLE) Learning Activities Teacher-provided resources Canvas Applications

  13. MLE Example

  14. MLE Example

  15. MLE Example

  16. MLE Example

  17. MLE Example Maybe different amounts of evaporation caused our measurements to be different. My rain measuring tool was in the sun, so maybe it evaporated faster. Hands-on activity and blog posting: Assignment: we will make a rain measurement tool in class. Measure rainfall at your house for two weeks. Record the rainfall on the blog every day. Compare your measurements with other students’ findings. Are all the measurements the same? Why or why not?

  18. GoKnow’s GoManage - Example

  19. GoManage Example

  20. The cellphone computer at the hub of activity: St Marys, OH

  21. The cellphone computer at the hub of activity: collaboration St Marys, OH

  22. Professional DevelopmentIntegrate Tech into Existing Curriculum Curriculum Strategies: To transform pencil-and-paper lessons into complete & comprehensive mobile-computer-based, engaging lessons

  23. Impressive Results: St Mary’s Ohio - 2009

  24. “Ed Sec says yes to cell phones in class”Leadership

  25. Sustainable… At Last Mobile Learning For the Mobile Generation Opportunity is NOW Solution is NOW Verizon Wireless + GoKnow 25

  26. Estimates of Costs: Pilot

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