The World of Mobile Learning - at AcceleratED 2015

Agenda
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Objective: Participants will experience mobile learning activities, and discuss issues related to mobile learning environments, to strengthen their understanding of mobile learning.

• Introductions
• What is mobile Learning?
• SAMR
• Quick check on a few ed tech terms.
• Andragogy, Heutagogy, Pedagogy - how are they different?
• Agogy Exit Ticket
• Does mobile technology help/hinder grit? 
• Angela Lee Duckworth Ted Talk
• Jigsaw Discussion Topics
• Triangle Reflection

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Jigsaw Discussion Topics

1.  Your Vision as a District/School (What is your curriculum oriented goal, so what technology will be supporting that goal?)

• Common Sense Media 1-1 Essentials (Phase 1)

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2.  Community Conversations (Are parents, community satisfied all students are online?  How are you sharing with them?)

•  Give Parents a Voice in a 1-1 or BYOD Environment
•  Common Sense Media - Parent Concerns and Learning with Technology

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3.  Management/IT (What filters do you need in place?  How are you managing devices?  Are they going home?)

• No More Mobile Learning Mayhem

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4.  Class Workflow (Are teachers asking high level questions, what classroom management systems will be supported, will you explore strictly online learning opportunities?)

•  The Distraction Myth of Learning with Technology
•  Hook Students with QR Codes - adding movement to engage critical thinking
•  seesaw - an eportfolio system elementary students can use
• Canvas, Edmodo, Schoology, or Google Classroom

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5.  Digital Citizenship (What program is integrated to teach digital citizenship and at what grade levels?)

•  Common Sense Media Scope and Sequence
•  Netsmartz

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6.  Social Media (Will social media be allowed, what procedure is in place when creating student accounts, will the school/district be using it?)

• Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Blogs, and many more....
•  Introducing Social Media to Elementary Students

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7.  Professional Development (What professional development opportunities will be available for your staff?)

• Online courses at Canvas
•  Teaching Channel

YouTube for Kids

YouTube Kids App released this morning.  This free app, available for iPhone or iPad, provides younger children full access to Youtube content appropriate for their age.  You will see Sesame Street, Bob the Builder, and Fireman Sam as examples.

Viewers have a few ways to find content within the app.  They can choose to search shows, music, learning, or the explore button.  Or they can click the magnifying glass and type their search.

While kids are watching a video, they have access to simple controls, or can navigate to other episodes within a particular channel.

When starting the app, by default background music and sound effects are auto enabled.  As a parent you can click into the settings and turn them off.  You can also set a time limit so the app auto turns off after a specific amount of time.




Youtube Kids App is a great resource if you want to allow free exploration of videos for any young child.  

Seesaw - ePortfolios for Elementary Setting

There are many great ePortfolio options available, including Evernote or Google, however they can be a bit overwhelming for the students in primary grades.  Especially if you want to have them save exemplars.

Seesaw is a free iDevice app that is very simple to use allowing any student capable of using an iPad to take a photo to save an exemplar into their ePortfolio.

Instead of calling them ePortfolio's, Seesaw uses the term journals, both class journals containing works displayed by the entire class and individual journals containing works by any particular student.

The process is quite simple.  As a teacher you create your free account which will be tied to your classroom.  Set up all your students inside that class.

From there you can add either a photo, video, drawing, or something from the camera roll.

 

Once you upload an item, like a photo, you can add annotation, voice recording, or text.

Then you select which student is associated with the artifact.  You can select multiple students if it is a group project.

The app allows for student access as well.  The only rights students have will be to add artifacts. Students do not need an account, just scan a QR code and they are in.  While logged in as a student they will have the ability to view any artifact from within the class, not just their own.

Let the students do the work: take the picture, create a drawing, shoot a video, or select a project from the camera roll to insert into their own journal.  As a safe guard, before it is finalized into a students journal the teacher must approve the artifact from within their teacher account.




Seesaw allows for you to invite parents so they have ability to see only their child's artifacts.

If you have been looking for an ePortfolio type tool to use with K-3rd grade, this is a perfect fit.  Easy to use so students do the work, teacher has full control over anything posted, and parents have access to their child's work.  Also a great visual recap come conference time.

Kahoot or Quizizz - Game Based Classroom Response Systems

These two free, device neutral, online resources are sure to bring high engagement and active participation into any classroom.  The idea is simple, students answer questions in a competitive atmosphere, there will be a winner.

For both Kahoot and Quizizz, the facilitator creates a series of questions to be answered by the participants.  Each question can have a time limit before the participant must select a response.  The quicker the participant chooses a response, the more points they earn providing their choice was correct.

Using Kahoot, the questions are asked to the participants one at a time.  Participants view the projected screen, answer a question by selecting the corresponding color on their device, points are awarded, and a new question is provided.  When finished, persons with the most points will be displayed.

Using Quizizz, the facilitator starts the activity at which time participants are given questions in a random order.  The participants read the questions on their device and answer them at their own pace.  Once all participants complete the activity, persons with the most points will be displayed.


Quizizz would be a great tool to use for an entire class, or as a center since it is student driven.  Kahoot is teacher driven providing time for discussion between each question being asked.

I've tried using both resources with groups of at least 40, and each time they worked fine.

Both Kahoot and Quizizz allows teachers to create their own questions, which can include images. When finished with the activity, the teacher can save the data describing how students answered each question. Teachers can explore through the many public assessments created and shared by others.

In either case, these opportunities provide a nice review experience or possibly a motivating pre-assessment experience.  Definitely stated, the experience will be fun, highly energetic, and competitive.