themes in learning with mobile devices

Teaching and Learning With Mobile DevicesU of ManitobaFaculty of EducationDr. R. Redekopp

It’s not about YOU, it’s about them They are different from you They need to learn different things,

differently

More connected, more isolated people, surroundings, reality, environment, charity, issue responses

The medium is the message

What does a TV say to us?

What effect does a Smartboard have on a classroom?

Technology bias At least for us? Can other cultures

interpret it differently? Male, white, western, Values

Speed, efficiency, objectivity, lack of emotion

Limited perspective We see what the producer wants us to

see. TV, YouTube, Skype, images, Google / Bing / Yahoo (we get different

results)?

How is an essay different … from a video, podcast, mash-up, image work of art music composition?

Socialization

Is the internet ‘colour and culture’ blind?  

From Facts to Thinking to Wisdom

Facts are easy Is inquiry the only way?

For all students All the time