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Use of Mobile Phone Technologies in the Classroom Context
Chrisina DraganovaSchool of Computing, Information
Technology and Engineering
University of East London
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Motivation
Enhance student learning Improve student attention and motivation Give students an opportunity to reflect on the
presented content Provide an opportunity to every student to
participate in the classroom interaction Promote active learning environment Provide feedback for the lecturer to adjust
teaching approaches
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Outline
Related studies Web based MCQs system SMS – Edutxt UEL uHavePassed Summary
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Bluetooth based systems “TV remote” system (Bär H et. al. 2006)
submission of text messages
submission of feedback
submission of answers to decision polls or multiple choice questions
retrieving information
browsing through a current set of messages
graphical overviews of correct and incorrect answers to multiple choice quizzes
Interactive classroom technologies - 1
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Interactive classroom technologies - 2
SMS/MMS systems
“TXT-2-LRN” (Scornavacca E., Marshall S., 2007) - submit questions or comments to the lecture’s laptop via SMS, submit answers to multiple choice quizzes
“Mobile Phone Extension to Ubiquitous Presenter” (Lindquist D et. al. 2007)- text message submission, photo submission of hand written answers and/or graphics via MMS to mathematical, code writing and diagrammatic problems
“Pls Turn Ur Mobile On” (Markett C. et. al., 2004)
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Interactive classroom technologies - 3
“Turning Point Technologies” (www.turningtechnologies.com) Integrate with MSOffice
Collects and organise student response data
Alter the sequence of slides according to student responses
Instant feedback for lecturer
Integrates with Learning Management Systems (WebCT and Blackboard)
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Main objectives of “Mobile Active Learner” Project To enable interaction during a lecture session using
mobile phones via free of cost connection To provide opportunities to every student to become
actively engaged through the use of appropriate activities To analyse the submissions from students using relevant
data analysis software To provide instant individual feedback to each student
sent to their mobile phone To provide instant aggregated feedback to the lecturer
about the level of understanding of the students via suitable interface
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Added benefits
Flexibility Using devices and software that is
already available Integrating intelligent data analysis that
is already developed and initially tested Providing diagnostic feedback to
students
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Web system – student interface - 1
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Web system – student interface - 2
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Web system – student interface - 3
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Web system – student interface - 4
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Web system – lecturer interface - 1
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Web system – lecturer interface - 2
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Web system – lecturer interface - 3
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Txttools – www.txttools.co.uk
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Txttools
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http://uel.uhavepassed.com/
UEL uHavePassed
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UEL uHavePassed - 1
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UEL uHavePassed - 2
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UEL uHavePassed - 3
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UEL uHavePassed – Summary of results
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UEL uHavePassed– Practice test
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Summary
Experiments with different systems• Web based system
• Edutxt
• UEL uHavePassed
Further work• Incorporate intelligent feedback
• Wider application and evaluation of these system