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It’s all aboutasking questions
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mGagement:Mobile Learning to Ignite
Curiosity
Bernie Dodge, PhD
San Diego State University¿
Five Ideas• Event Capture• WonderPoints• WebQuest 3.0• WHex• GooHands
Qualcomm Grant
Why Mobile Technology?
What’s the policy on cell phones at your school?
What’s important about mobile technology is that it invites curiosity and active learning
It’s not the way to “deliver instruction”
And because schools will never be able to provide every child
with the latest technology,
the policy that forbids them from using their own devices
will have to change.
Five Ideas
• Event Capture• WonderPoints• WebQuest 3.0• WHex• GooHands
Event Capture
• Make better use of the time spent on “field trips”
• Create and share knowledge within the group• Capture it in a way that can be referred to
later
Before the Event
• Access information about the event• Generate questions• Divide up the task of getting answers
It’s all aboutasking questions
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During the Event
• Spread out• Take notes• Take pictures• Capture interviews• Save URLs
Save the date: Nov 5, 2011
http://sdcue.org
Cell Phones as Tricorders
After the Event
• Share• Compile• Combine• Polish• Publish
Five Ideas
• Event Capture• WonderPoints• WebQuest 3.0• WHex• GooHands
WonderPoints
• Identify a plot of ground • Go out as a class and capture voice notes,
geotagged photos• Propose interesting questions• Post them, rate them for interestingness, and
then find answers
What does K-1911-P mean?
Where do these wires come from? Where do they go?
What does this thing do?
What used to
be here?
What used to
be here?
What kind of tree is
that?
What kind of tree is
that?
When were these
houses built?
When were these
houses built?
What does this sign mean?
What does this sign mean?
What does that thing
on the roof do?
What does that thing
on the roof do?
It’s all aboutasking questions
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The Second Way to do WonderPoints
Use Crowdmap and Ushahidi
OK… what about YOUR neighborhood?
Setting up your own private Ushahidi
WonderPoint Possibilities
• Open-ended wonder• Signs• Plants and trees• Architecture & history• Blight, graffiti, crime• Watershed
• Senses• Shapes• Heights & distance• Language• Infrastructure
Motivational Elements
• Provides recognition for coming up with good questions
• Provides recognition for finding good answers using research after the visit
• Encourages curiosity, looking at ordinary surroundings with a beginner’s mind.
• Different classes can explore the same plot from the perspectives of math, history, English, science, etc.
ConcreteConcrete
AbstractAbstract
Types of Wonder
• Who? (people)• What? (names, categories, kinds)• When? (history, origin)• Why? (purpose, motive)• How? (process)
Five Ideas
• Event Capture• WonderPoints• WebQuest 3.0• WHex• GooHands
WebQuest 3.0
• Same as traditional WebQuests,
EXCEPT THAT
a critical source of data used by students requires the use of a mobile device for:
Capturing information outside the classroomAccessing information outside the classroom
WebQuest 3.0
Interactions
Interactions
Interactions
Interactions
Interactions
Interactions
Five Ideas
• Event Capture• WonderPoints• WebQuest 3.0• WHex• GooHands
It’s all aboutasking questions
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WHexWHoWHatWHereWHenWHy How
HexHex
WHex
Parsers Tricksters Editors
WHex
Parsers Tricksters Editors
WHex
Parsers Tricksters Editors
Players
WHex
• Improved test-wiseness• Channeling competition• Practicing collaboration• Associating fun with learning• Experience of mastery• Thinking about school, AFTER school
Five Ideas
• Event Capture• WonderPoints• WebQuest 3.0• WHex• GooHands
Information is now pretty ubiquitous
Information will soon be ubiquitouser
A lot of what goes on in schools assumes that the information
kids need is in a particular place
In the libraryOn the whiteboard
On page 138 of the textbook
What if the information was always in their hands?
How would teaching have to change?How would what librarians do
change?
GooHands
GooHands
What if the information was always in their hands?
How would teaching have to change?
How would what librarians do change?
What can you do to prepare for mGagement?
So I said…
Why don’t you write in the back of the book,
Donated by Mohammed Sinneh
Why don’t you write in the back of the book,
Donated by Mohammed Sinneh
Don’t need it
By Mohammed Sinneh
mGagement:Mobile Learning to Ignite
Curiosity
Bernie Dodge, PhD
San Diego State University¿
