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Projects identified in scan

Large scale System led Teachers Mobile phones Younger students

Small scale Innovator led Students Mobile computing Older students

Trends

Mobile functionality

Mobile costs

Data costs

Mobile adoption

Issues

• Behaviour

• Inclusion

• Costs

• Mobile phone functionality

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-literacy/media-lit11/childrens.pdf

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-literacy/media-lit11/childrens.pdf

Issues

• Behaviour

• Inclusion

• Costs

• Mobile functionality

Ofcom UK children’s media literacy 2009 http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-literacy/full_report.pdf

Issues

• Behaviour

• Inclusion

• Costs

• Mobile functionality

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-literacy/media-lit11/childrens.pdf

Issues

• Behaviour

• Inclusion

• Costs

• Mobile functionality

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-literacy/media-lit11/childrens.pdf

Inclusion

• Oxford University

– The system uses Molly, an open source web-based application framework targeting all phones, 'smart' or otherwise. Molly has been developed by the University of Oxford. Native applications can only target a few classes of device, leaving a large number of potential users unable to use the service. However, wherever possible, Molly detects the device being used and tailors the page to match the phone's capabilities.

Behaviour

• Priory School Specialist Sports College – The pupils themselves designed and implemented the

mobile learning policy. The process is described in a video on David Roger’s blog at http://daviderogers.blogspot.com/ The video describes the typical situation whereby new tools are too often “hidden” behind traditional pedagogies, and thereby lose some of their potential value. The pupils at the Priory School Specialist Sports College thought that, if learning was to be transformed, the first focus had to be on behaviour – “we first had to change how people saw mobile devices and how they use them in their own social time, once we got this sorted, we could use them to support learning”.

Functionality

• Apps for good

– During the Apps for Good course, students go through an entrepreneurial process whereby they identify “what is wrong” with their world before designing a way of fixing it with a mobile app. The course encompasses a broad range of areas of work, giving young people a foundation in entrepreneurship, community involvement, problem-solving and team work, as well as design and some technical skills.

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