The Future of Mobile Learning & the Use of PDAs in Literacy Classrooms

Corey BrownED 5670

Is this Mobile Learning?

Or is this Mobil Learning?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLearning

Mobil Learning is…

• M-Learning• M-learning focuses on the mobility of the

learner, interacting with portable technologies, and learning that reflects a focus on how society and its institutions can accommodate and support an increasingly mobile population.

• M-Learning decreases limitation of learning location with the mobility of general portable devices.

Examples of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s)

BlackBerry, iPhone, and

iPad are well known examples of PDA’s. All

with useful tools for the future of the classroom.

http://www.convergemag.com/edtech/Mobile-Learning-in-Classrooms-of-the-Future.html

-Smart Phones-

• A PDA taken to the next level.• Smart phones provide equitable access to the

Internet for all students by supporting the popular wireless broadband technologies.

• With Wi-Fi, EDGE and 3G support, these ultra-mobile devices provide access to users from anywhere -- school, home, library, community.

• Creating opportunities for anytime learning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9xGP-FVzbY

Here is a glimpse into the possibilities.

What is the next step?

• Instant grade updates to parent/guardian cell phones?

• Schools go paperless?• Districts harness the Digital Natives within

them and offer a chance to excel within a medium students are comfortable using.

• Endless possibilities…