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Dr. J. Alison Bryant

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Mobile education allows us to…

•  Reach underserved audiences •  Make learning everywhere •  Empower learners •  “Flip” the classroom •  Provide bite-sized, just-in-time learning •  Keep learning social •  Empower educators


Using mobile to reach (almost) everywhere

•  The global mobile broadband market will increase 19.5% annually from 2011-2015.

•  There will be 788 million mobile-only Internet users by 2015 •  In Colombia in 2010, there was a growth of 20.8% for fixed broadband

Internet connections, 59.2% for mobile connections

Confidential 8 © 2013 PlayCollective Source: Companies & Markets Research (2012). Global Mobile Broadband Market Report; Cisco (2011). Broadband Barometer.

And we mean EVERYWHERE

Boat schools in Bangladesh •  Solar power and mobile phone service •  FREE child and adult education •  20 boats reaching almost 70K children


There is a desire by many to learn on mobile

Confidential 10 © 2013 PlayCollective Source: VuClip (Feb. 2013) Global Education Report

Learning doesn’t have to be “smart”

BBC Janela (Bangladesh)


•  3-minute audio English language lessons

•  Updated every day •  Used interactive voice response •  Cost: 50 BDT (USD$0.0061) •  Accessed over 15 million times

during the first two years •  Outperformed other platforms

Go where traditional resources can’t


Over 720K digital books distributed;

489K readers read over

24M pages in July 2012 alone!

Nigeria 42%

India 11%

Zimbabwe 10%

Ethiopia 5%

Ghana 5%

Rest Of World 27%

Page Views By Region

Nigeria

India

Zimbabwe

Ethiopia

Ghana

Rest Of World

Create hyperlocal learning


Learning happens everywhere and with everything a student does, so facilitate that. Engage students in learning in the classroom, around the school, in the community, on the go – everything in their life space is game!

There is no difference between formal and informal learning –

it’s all learning!

Try augmented learning

Star Walk


It can mean this…. …or this

But both are effective for mobile learning!

A note on cross-platform learning!

•  Just because you have curriculum goals that need to go across media doesn’t mean that you should be teaching the same thing on all platforms.

•  Ideally transmedia “pushes” kids to the right content on the right platform, and kids can also “pull” the content they want on the platform they want.

The “new” learning O

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objective and certain Knowledge is organized and hierarchical Learners receive knowledge Our “intelligence” is based on our individual abilities We learn best by watching and listening

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g Knowledge is subjective and personal Knowledge is organic and ecological Learners create knowledge Our “intelligence” is based on our learning communities We learn best by doing


Source: Ratner, S. (1997) Emerging Issues in Learning Communities.

Let them choose and create!

And leverage their creativity for assessing their mastery.


Give them feedback!

Well-designed mobile learning provides consistent, clear

feedback. (But that doesn’t mean it has to just be quizzes!)

Feedback should be personalized and dynamic.


Gamification is not a panacea!

Gamification can help with short-term engagement, but is not a long-term solution"

Intrinsic Motivation

Extrinsic Motivation

But game elements do have their place!•  Games are a great way to informally assess without “testing” •  This is a generation who has grown up with “leveling up,” and

the notion of meeting new challenges as you go along –  But this also means that it is a generation that assumes

personalization"•  Games are great at visually showing progress, and giving instant

feedback"–  Giving kids a “learning positioning system” (LPS) as they play helps

them orient"

And there is an expectation of gaming on certain platforms

% of kids who play games on these mobile devices, if the household owns

The iPad has the highest gaming “conversion” rates, with learning tablets a close 2nd.

72%! 68%! 60%! 55%! 54%!

Source: PlayScience, Global Gaming Generations study – includes U.S., Mexico, Germany, China

Photo from Wired (Nov. 2013)

How do we “flip?”

Confidential 26 © 2013 PlayCollective Source: Knewton, http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/.

Let students lead the learning


That’s why a new breed of educators, inspired by everything from the Internet to evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and AI, are inventing radical new ways for children to learn, grow, and thrive. To them, knowledge isn’t a commodity that’s delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the students’ own curiosity-fueled exploration. Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside so students can teach themselves and one another. They are creating ways for children to discover their passion—and uncovering a generation of geniuses in the process.

Use mobile learning to help students “own” their learning!

Kids are natural learners and explorers

But with mobile comes shorter attention spans

About 1/2 of U.S. preschoolers spend 11-20 minutes playing per session; 2/5 only spend 5-10 minutes

Source: Cooney Center. (2010). Learning: Is there an app for that?

Use mobile to provide the resources they need to understand concepts


Lectures Interactive Assessment

Reference Creative Application

We need to facilitate interdisciplinary learning

•  We know that interdisciplinary, project-base, student-driven learning works.

•  How do we facilitate learning across disciplines? •  How do we contextualize learning?

Keep the ecosystem of learning in mind


Teachers

Students

Family

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Help teachers manage the learning experience


Provide great resources at lower cost


Stage Turns your iPad into

a Whiteboard

Build better assessments

•  Just-in-time Assessment

•  Creative assessments


Idea Sketch

Build in “second screen” experiences

•  We’re playing a lot with second screen for TV, but what about for education?


Keep the classroom in mind when you develop informal applications •  Provide simple-to-use, multidimensional resources

•  Parents and teachers are beginning to use national curricula as a measure of “value” (both educational and monetary)


Remember that parents are educators too!

Consider how to keep them engaged with the learning process as well. Their engagement (and their own efficacy) is often a critical factor in student learning.


Understanding how to best teach with new platforms!

Media/Mechanics

Ages

Enter the (Research)

Matrix

We have rapid platform evolution

AND smaller tech generations

Younger kids lean toward tablet use, whereas older kids are more computer

and gaming system oriented.

Source: PlayScience, Global Gaming Generations study – includes U.S., Mexico, Germany, China

Deciding on platforms

Finding the right mix of open and closed learning!

Closed/Convergent!

Open/Creative!

We don’t just want interactive flash cards…."

…but how do we assess fully open creative?"

Dealing with the fact that mobile is so personal •  Although obviously a huge plus for creating more custom,

personalized educational experiences, the personal nature of mobile devices also means that each learner usually needs to have their own. That creates an upfront resource need.

•  That said, consider unique approaches to creating personalization within a single device. –  Text logins –  Multi-user accounts


Convincing parents (and teachers) of the value of digital learning

Parents will pay 33% less for an ebook than a print book, but that

is 40% more than what they are willing

to pay for apps!"

The amount parents will pay for an ebook is rising, but what they will pay for an app is decreasing.

Source: PlayScience/Digital Book World (2013). Kids and ebooks study (parts 1 and 2)

Prioritizing information literacy

With more information sources, knowing how to evaluate (and create) “good” information is a core 21st century skill.


Providing resources for educators

42% of U.S. teachers say their students usually know more than they do when it comes to using new digital technologies.

Just 18% feel they know more than their students.

Confidential 50 © 2013 PlayCollective Source: PEW Internet and American Life Project (2013) Teachers & Technology study

Let’s Play!!

J. Alison Bryant [email protected] www.playcollective.com

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