Reading Education and Technology class research assignment for Rebecca Haley - USF Tampa Reading Masters Program

1. THE USE OF MOBILE
DEVICES IN AND OUT
OF THE CLASSROOM
By Rebecca Haley

2. MOBILE APPLICATION DATA TO PONDER
National survey conducted on children
ages 4-8 years old:
 60% of children read or listen to stories on touch
devices
 60% of children use mobile apps more than four times a
week
 24% do so every day
 71% of those apps are downloaded by parents
 29% by the children themselves
 Ruckus Media Group 4/2012
http://sandboxsummit.org/agenda/

3. EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH
 Today's educators are exploring the potential of mobile
wireless technology to improve learning
 Research on the educational value of handheld devices in K-
12 settings is limited, but suggests that these devices can be
quite useful

4.  Baya'a, N., & Daher, W. (2009). Learning
mathematics in an authentic mobile environment:
The perceptions of students. International Journal
of Interactive Mobile Technologies,3(6).

5.  Patten, K. B., & Craig, D. V. (2007). E-literacy and
literacy: iPods, popular culture and language
learning. International Journal of the Book, 4(1), 69-
74.
 Lacina, J. (2008). Learning English with iPods.
Childhood Education, 84, 247-249.

6.  Gulchak, D.J. (2008). Using a mobile handheld
computer to teach a student with an emotional and
behavioral disorder to self-monitor attention.
Education & Treatment of Children, 3(4), 567-581.

7.  Harris, C. (2008). An iPhone for every student. School Library
Journal, 54(11), 22.

8. FIRST HANDHELD DEVICE EVALUATION STUDY
WITHIN THE K-12 SCHOOL SYSTEM
 Palm Education Pioneers Program was launched in 2001
 Included over 100 teachers
 Examined the teachers' attitudes through surveys and site
visits
 They were "overwhelmingly positive" about the use of
handheld computers in the teaching and learning process
 "Palm is committed to understanding how providing a
powerful, personal, handheld computer for every student can
provide the technology access required to create new
classroom practices that can revolutionize the way teachers
teach and the way students learn.”
-- Mike Lorion, Vice President of Education, Palm, Inc.

9. GODWIN-JONES, R. (2010). LITERACIES AND
TECHNOLOGIES REVISITED. LANGUAGE, LEARNING &
TECHNOLOGY. 14(3).
 “Calm, unfocused, undistracted, the linear mind is being
pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to
take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often
overlapping bursts--the faster the better.“
 Carr, N. (2010). The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains. New
York: Norton.
 Change in electronic communication
 Collaborative Language Learning
 Build activities that connect in-class
tasks to the experiences of students to their on-line lives

10. GODWIN-JONES, R. (2011). MOBILE APPS FOR LANGUAGE
LEARNING. LANGUAGE, LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY, 15(2).
The History of Learning Languages
Using a Mobile Device
 Limited, Constrained and Slow
 Functionality arrives in 2007
 Linking a mobile app to a web service
 “We know that learning becomes more real
and permanent when tied to learners' lives
outside the academic environment.”

11. DEMSKI, J. (2011). ELL TO GO: TWO SCHOOLS TRANSFORM THEIR
ELL PROGRAMS BY GIVING STUDENTS AROUND-THE-CLOCK ACCESS
TO SOME OF THE LATEST MOBILE DEVICES. T H E JOURNAL. 38 (5).
 Newcomer Center, in Arlington Heights, IL
 “Each armed with an iPad, they swipe their fingers
across the screen…”

12.  ELL classroom at Comal Independent School
District in New Braunfels, TX
 “…a teacher asks her students to bring their iPod
Touch devices home and use their voice memo
apps to record themselves reading aloud in
English.”

13. NEED APPS? RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
 http://www.youtube.com/user/AppsForKidsReviews/
featured
Discover the best educational apps for kids. Videos
are available to watch to make sure it's right for
your educational purposes.

14. SPECIAL NEEDS APPS
 http://a4cwsn.com/mobile-education-store/
 The number of apps designed for children with
special needs seems to grow by the day. This
presents a huge opportunity to find tools to help
with communication, behavior, learning, medical
management ... and also a huge headache as we
try to find the perfect choices in an ever-expanding
selection. Apps for children with special needs is a
site that offers videos of the apps in action and
reviews of whether they're worth your while.

15. AN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
 http://www.iear.org/
 Community and collaboration is the most vital
aspect for improving education. Technology is really
at a point where we can make a difference as a
collective body in so many ways. Sometimes we
just need a spark to ignite a movement ...
 IEAR.org is an attempt to marry several
educational communication tools into one
community.

16. BRAINSCAPE-EFFICIENT MOBILE LEARNING
BASED ON BRAIN SCIENCE
 Watch the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHi9PdmhEL0
 Educational blog on ways to use
Brainscape Theory:
http://blog.brainscape.com/
 Research on Confidence Based Repetition-
How Brainscape works:
http://www.brainscape.com/images/cms/research/Con
fidence-Based_Repetition.pdf

17. Questions?
Rebeccahaley@mail.usf.edu
Tonight, let’s discuss:
 Your thoughts on mobile device usage in the
classroom
 Your experience, or the experiences you’d like to be
having, with mobile devices
 Your thoughts on Brainscape.com
Please be ready to:
 Share educational apps that you’ve used with
success