Its key focus and engagement involves:
- New Learning leading to New Learning Spaces
- Building Schools for the Future Project
- Academies
- New Outcomes & New Approaches
- Changing Hearts and Minds
- Clearing the way for Change
Mobile Learning a means to help build bridges & create accessibilty learners to tutors.
- http://www.tribalgroup.co.uk/index.php?ob=1&id=363
- http://www.m-learning.org/
- http://www.m-learning.org/what/what-is-m-learning-.htm
3 depths of m-Learning
- Outreach Promotion: Awareness, raising skill checks on mutliple tools
- Targeted learning on specific devices (low-mid-high technology; building skills; assessment)
- Collaborative learning and play with phones, cameras, mobiles, PDAs, PCs - to create, experiment, play
- Pocket PC Learning resources on smarter phones (content)
- Phone features - Speaking & listening
- Content Authoring tools
Point to Ponder: What's advantage of using PDAs over laptops/tablets in school?
I think, it largely depends on the age-group of students and the intended use.
- In terms of portability and weight, certainly PDAs has an advantage over tablet since the formerly can easily slipped into pockets and start-up pretty quickly and easily. More come with programs like office applications and features like cameras and microphones, too!
- On the other hand, we also have to be mindful on the 'consolidated intended' use of the equipment, especially for the secondary curriculum. Certainly, our students will need more powerful equipment to access a wider range of applications and resources. Also, being older, they should be able to manage the heavier equipment. Hm... When they get their machine, will need to teach them how to take good care of it... so that it could last for at least 4 years.
Media Board: A web-based tool which lets learners build up online web pages by sending messages, pictures and audio from their phones.
- http://www.m-learning.org/products/mediaboard.htm
- Mediaboard (more info): http://portal.m-learning.org/mboard.php
- Pocket PC (more info): http://portal.m-learning.org/ppc.php
- SMS Quiz (more info): http://portal.m-learning.org/sms_quiz.php
- http://www.mediaboard.co.uk/
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Learning Score: A multimedia lesson planning tool, but also positioned as a delivery tool. Its look-and-feel is similar to that of Movie maker (or similar product) - it comes with a timeline to aid planning. There are several pre-defined categories of classroom activities and strategies. One can also insert descriptions into the "boxes" of activities. If it works like movie maker, then it would be very inituitive and easy to use (since user could simply drag and drop the items into the boxes).
- http://learningscore.net/
- Brochure: https://shop.tribalgroup.co.uk/images/stories/pdfs/learningscoreflier.pdf
- Demo: http://learningscore.net/onlineplayer/LearningScore.html
- Look out for release in February 2009.
Some thoughts:
- It could also be a project planning tool for students - to documentthe progress of the entire project. Students can also park their work-in-progress... and along-the-way reflection.
- Alternatively, students can also use the tool for their personal planning (for learning) - A habit that we would like them to cultivate - taking ownership of their own learning and managing the many different activities happening around them/they are involved in...
- Students would probably like the interface as it's very visual and seemingly easy to use.
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