Each year, Track One (Emerging and Future Educational Technology) at the
Conference on Information Technology (www.league.org/2007cit) focuses on
an emerging technology believed to be of particular interest to
educators. For the 2007 CIT, the special focus of Track One is Portable
High-Tech Media Devices and Their Implications for Instruction. The
growing consumer use of MP3 players, PDAs, cell phones, and other
portable high-tech media devices raises questions about their role in
improving student learning and student access to learning. How does the
use of these devices change the dynamics of teaching and learning? Does
instructional content linked to these devices now make them an
additional de facto student purchase? How is instructional success
defined and measured when using these devices? Sessions targeted toward
this focus area should assist in the evaluation, adaptation, and use of
portable high-tech media devices for academic purposes. Although the
increased use of portable high-tech media devices is the special focus
of the 2007 CIT, other topics
<http://www.league.org/2007cit/win/win_special_interest.htm>  related to
the future use of information technology at community and technical
colleges will be presented.

 

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From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:technology-bounces at nifl.gov]
On Behalf Of Eunice Snay
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:23 AM
To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Technology 969] Re: M-learning through cell phones

 

David:  Do you know how the phone cost involved are paid?  Does it come
out of the individuals plan?  Does the program support the student use
of this technology in any way?   This seems to me to be the stumbling
block for use. 

 

Does IPod fall under this category?  Especially the Video IPod that has
similar functionality. 

 

This whole group of technologies fall under what I consider "what do
student already have and use".  So the student's doesn't need to learn
the technology again, their already using it.   Why not make use of what
they have for education.  

 

I think teachers are in the same category, in that they use these
technologies themselves and it's a technology they don't need to learn
to use again.  But we need idea's like these for the teachers to think
broadly for uses in their classes.  I recently was asked by a teacher
that I met on the street, "How do I text Message".  She had the need at
that moment, it turned into a real learning opportunity. 

 

I like the example you used below especially becasue it's for the low
level learner.   Teachers tend to discount using technologies with this
group of students.  Though just the opposite should be thought of for
this population becasue technologies can assist them with their
learning. 

 

Eunice Snay 
Regional Technologist for Central SABES 
508-854-4514 
esnay at qcc.mass.edu 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:technology-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Debra Smith
	Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 3:35 PM
	To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List
	Subject: [Technology 967] Re: M-learning through cell phones

	In beginning ESL for adults, I have used the 'record' feature on
students' mobile phones to individualize instruction, recording short
sound files to let students listen outside of class to something they
were having difficulty mastering, and I have used mobiles in class to
have students practice model telephone dialogues with a tutor (My child
will be absent from school today; What time does the store close? etc.).
It's enough harder to talk without seeing a face, and sound is enough
less clear on a phone than in person, that the exercise seemed
worthwhile. 

	Debra Morris Smith

	
	 

	On 4/23/07, David J. Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote: 

	Marilyn and others,
	
	Cell phones (called mobile phones in much of the rest of the
world)
	are being used for learning projects in classrooms (and outside)
by 
	high school students.  M-Learning is also being done with young
	adults in the U.K., South Africa and Australia.  See:
	
	http://www.m-learning.org/
	
	This is a web site in the U.K. devoted to m-learning, and it
	describes a multi-year project focused on basic skills learning
for
	school dropouts aged 16-24. Handhelds, especially mobile phones,
are
	ubiquitous in youth culture in developed, as well as in many
areas of 
	developing countries.  They are as comfortable to young people
as
	pencils and pens.  They also allow access from a wide variety of
	places, and at any time.  The instruction is designed in game
format,
	using appealing graphics, and with content of interest to young 
	adults. The youth involved in the three-year project, from 2001-
	2004, were not enrolled in any education or training and were
	unemployed, underemployed, or even homeless. The m-learning
	infrastructure includes a Learning Management System and a 
	"microportal interface" which together enable access to
m-learning
	materials and services from a variety of mobile devices plus web
and
	TV access.
	
	On the web site, look at the interactive demos and the video
clips 
	(right sidebar menu) . Notice that some of the m-learning
projects
	involved  "embedded"  contextualized workplace learning
http://www.m-
	learning.org/projects.shtml .
	
	Two other examples of Mobile Learning:
	
	1. ACT (college) entrance test preparation ($20)
	http://www.handmark.com/products/detail.php?id=402 
	
	2. News by phone, for example ABE News
	http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Wireless/ ,  or
	CNN toGO http://www.cnn.com/togo/ 
	
	Mobile learning (M-learning) is also called HDUL (handheld
devices
	for ubiquitous learning, pronounced "huddle" I guess).  You can
read
	some research on it at: http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~hdul/
	
	You'll find a pretty good bibliography of (mostly online)
resources
	on m-learning at
http://www3.telus.net/~kdeanna/mlearning/related%
<http://www3.telus.net/~kdeanna/mlearning/related%25> 
	20links.htm
	
	Here's an example of a project for low-literate ESOL students
that
	someone could try:
	
	Using a cell phone camera, an ESOL student project might be to
build
	a picture dictionary of their own. Students photograph objects
they 
	want to know the English word for (the cell phone is a handy way
to
	do that just when they discover they don't know the word)  and
then
	send the photo to a Web page.  Later they -- or other students
--
	look up the English word for the picture and add it beneath the 
	picture, possibly with a short audio file in which the word is
	pronounced.  Perhaps a creative teacher on this list has already
done
	such a project and you could send us the URL.
	
	Is anyone on the technology discussion list doing M-learning
with 
	adults or out-of-school youth?
	I have added a page about mobile learning (m-learning, i.e.
learning
	delivered to cell phones or PDAs) to The Literacy List at:
	
	http://www.newsomeassociates.com (scroll to the bottom, select
	"publications", then "The Literacy list," then "mobile
learning")
	
	or
	
	http://www.alri.org/literacylist.html 
	
	       http://alri.org/litlist/mlearning.html
	
	Anyone, please let me know if you have suggestions of other
resources
	which should be included on the m-learning page (or any other
page) 
	of The Literacy List.
	
	David J. Rosen
	djrosen at comcast.net
	
	
	On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Marilyn Williams wrote:
	
	> Wouldn't it be something if our students' back to school
materials 
	> list one day included a cell
	> phone! The cell phone is part of most/many student's lives
already,
	> maybe we should be looking
	> at it as an educational tool rather than something that
doesn't 
	> have a place in the classroom.
	>
	> Marilyn
	>
	> Marilyn Williams
	> 6th Grade Language Arts/Social Studies
	> Kennedy Middle School
	> Eugene, OR
	>
	> ----- Original Message ----- 
	> From: Lissa probus <joyess1 at gmail.com>
	> Date: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:31 pm
	> Subject: [Technology 963] Re: handhelds day 2
	> To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List <
technology at nifl.gov>
	>
	>> The cell phone thing has my attention lately. Much of the low
end
	>> of the
	>> digital divide access the web via cell. Mini-chunks? Word of
the 
	>> day via
	>> text? Picture word induction?
	>> Interesting.
	>>
	>> Lissa Probus
	>> IDT ODU
	>>
	>> On 4/20/07, Marilyn Williams < williams_ma at 4j.lane.edu
<mailto:williams_ma at 4j.lane.edu> > wrote:
	>>>
	>>> I understand that there are sites doing some pretty creative
work
	>>> with
	>>> cellphones.  An issue
	>>> would be availability (would the school purchase cellphones
and a 2 
	>> year
	>>> plan?) as well as
	>>> uniformity (if students used their own, might be difficult
to
	>> teach).  I
	>>> don't know if cell phones
	>>> can upload/download the same kinds of applications which
have been 
	>>> developed for computers
	>>> and PDAs either.  The portability of a cellphone would
certainly be
	>>> something to consider.
	>>>
	>>> Marilyn Williams
	>>> 6th Grade Language Arts/Social Studies 
	>>> Kennedy Middle School
	>>> Eugene, OR
	>>>
	>>> ----- Original Message -----
	>>> From: Mariann Fedele <MariannF at lacnyc.org >
	>>> Date: Friday, April 20, 2007 1:40 pm
	>>> Subject: [Technology 960] Re: handhelds day 2
	>>> To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List
	>>> < technology at nifl.gov <mailto:technology at nifl.gov> >
	>>>
	>>>> This message is being posted on behalf of Kuulei Reeser:
	>>>>
	>>>> What about cell phones?  They appear to have similar
features to 
	>>>> handhelds
	>>>> plus have internet access and are a lot more affordable and
	>>>> accessible
	>>>> to
	>>>> the students.
	>>>>
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