1. A Synopsis
By Petal Jetoo
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3.  Mobile devices such as phones, laptops, PDAs
and clickers or student response device are
increasingly being used in corporate training
and university campuses as well as other
educational settings
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4.  Mobile learning (m-learning) and ubiquitous
learning (u learning) nurture the digital skills
required for the 21st century.
 M Learning has sprung up in recent years
with escalating use of handheld, portable and
wireless devices by learners on the move
 As a result of this revolution educational
activities follows the learner, instead of the
learner having to arrive at a designated place
in which to acquire it. (p 295)
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5.  video iPods are used to  Kaplan test
teach sign language, as preparation and
well as hearing admissions is now
impaired students to offering teens SAT
Preparation lessons in
learn more richly about
iPod (p 297)
text and video  Currently there are
 (p 296) interactive lessons in
reading, writing and
mathematics (costing $
4.99 each).
www.ipod.org.uk
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6.  Help instructors focus
on high level content
 Podcast Lectures
 Record Interviews
 Receive text messages
from Professors
 Access Course Syllabi
 Send Links to Course
Websites, take surveys,
vote in class
http://drault.com/ecommerce Some uses of the iPhone
in education
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7.  1980 – out of 700
million people only 2.5
million had cell phones
 Four decades later
11,000,000 new
phone subscriptions
are sold every month
http://i.infoplease.com/
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8.  July 2007 report from New York times
reported that there are 230 million Americans
with mobile phones, however only 32 million
use them to access and browse the web.
 With 3.3 billion users in the world with mobile
phones and 4 billion by 2010 – mobile
education becomes increasingly scalable and
cost justifiable (p 298)
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Human
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9.  Pioneering teachers will look at this as a
means to create interesting applications for
their classes. Smart phones now include
things like quick guides for chemistry, the
human nervous system, cell biology and
other important science areas as well as
religious topics ranging from the Quaran to
the Bible to gods of ancient Greece.
(p 299)
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10. Elliot Solloway, Arthur F.
Thurnau, Professor at the
University of Michigan and
cofounder of GoKnow Inc. a
company focused on mobile
technology in K-12
schools, school curriculum
centered iPhone apps can’t be
high priorities for developers since
schools ban mobile devices from
http://blogs.cellularlearning.org the classrooms. (p 300)
A revolution will happen sooner
than later where students use cell
phone computers in classroom
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11. Educational
applications of
Twitter
 Instructors may require
students to track the
life of a well known
researcher in the field
who uses Twitter. (p
301)
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2009/02/12/technology/topics_twitter
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12.  Its not a dream, created
by Jim Margraff, an  At a price of $ 200 it is
inventor of talking books much cheaper than an
and educational toys, the elephant!
Pusle smartpen allows
the learner to jot down
notes and transfer them
to a computer as well as
record lectures in a
minirecorder (p 302)
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13.  2008 – Project K-Nect  MIT, Carnegie Mellon
provides a repository of University and Boston
Math and Science College are using their
Problems which students technology know-how to
can solve on their mobile give students to capability
phones. to check on available
 2008 - Abilene Christian laundry machines
University (ACU) gave a  University of
choice to 900 freshman California, Stanford
students of an iPhone or University were leaders in
and iPod Touch posting their lectures in
 ACU studied many iTunes for anyone in the
emerging technologies world to download
and came to the  Students from Montclair
conclusion that the University can check their
iPhone is different (p grades, bus schedules and
307) dining hall menus using a
cell phone.
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14.  Oklahoma Christian
(OC) University
announced a week
after ACU that it
planned to offer
multiple mobile
technologies – both an
iPhone (or iPod Touch)
and an Apple MacBook
Laptop for incoming
students (p307) http://i.infopls.com/images/states_imgmap.gif
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15.  Japanese have ushered in a new era of
learning: Some examples are
 Yayoi: people are learning English podcasts
and other mobile technologies (p 310); she
has used CNN and Voice of America also
 Mobile phones are used for reading full
length novels
 Mobile Suica: uses the mobile phone as
transportation passes in public
transportation services such as trains, buses
etc.
http://www.scenicfromafar.com/uploads/images/japan-
mobile-phone-to-pay-for-train-fares.jpg
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16.  Howard Rheingold
documented Japanese Mobile reading is
stories on how people tend happening in a
to share and learn using the
mobile phone in his book – big way!
Smart Mobs.
 Mixi is the social network - http://infinitelives.net/wpcontent/uploads/2008/07/sm
Mixi connotes “ I can used artmobs.gif
the service to mix” – grown
from 10 thousand users in
2004 to more than 14
million in 2007.
 In Mixi one can upload
video content found in U –
Tube, a footprint feature
allows the user to see who
has visited their page. http://www.canadatop.com/uploads/mixi_1986.jpg
(p 308)
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17. Koreans operate in a highly
competitive system therefore
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gaining access to higher tier
education is the ultimate goal for
young people so providing
equitable access examination
preparation programmes as the
Educational Broadcasting System
(EBS) is a monumental
announcement
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18.  Students are using PMPs to  South Korea is the home to
download lecture notes, three to ten most popular
college prep tests, videos etc. blogging sites – Cyworld,
 High quality college entrance Planet Weblog and Yahoo!
TV programmes are provided Blog with Cyworld being the
on EBS (p312) tool of choice (combines,
 2007 – Ministry of Education, MySpace, Facebook,
Science, and Technology personal homepages,
blogging, e-portfolio, and
annouced the development
photo sharing). In tune with
of sophisticated digital
the participatory learning
textbooks which can be culture. In 2005 more than
inexpensively and quickly 40 % of South Koreans have
revised. It will allow students a membership in Cyworld
to interact with teachers at (out of 49 million people).
any time or location. (p313-314)
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19.  Africa is in the midst of a  The pressing need for
game of leapfrog to jump professional development
over its hurdles. M- of 200 000 teachers. In
learning allows more partial response a pilot
people to join this game. project set up by
Traxler, supports 8000 of
 Digital Education these teachers with
Enhancement Project supplemental material in
(DEEP) offers professional the form of SMS. University
development for rural of Pretoria is uses SMS for
teachers through administrative support to
illustrated e-books teachers in their distance
installed in handheld learning programmes. M
devices. learning was expanded to
facilitate students to phone
 To read more on DEEP in their academic questions
project check: and receive feedback via
http://www.open.ac.uk/d SMS.
eep/
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20.  Formal Educational opportunities for indigenous
children in Latin America are bleak. – Dr. Kim‟s
Solution the Pocket School ($ 19 MP3 player ). A
study showed that children learn to use these
devices very quickly. Fitted with 512 MB to 1 GB
interactive audio books are loaded which
facilitate the development of literacy skills in
children who would have never had access to a
teacher. Printed versions of stories can be read
while simultaneously listening to the audio
version. (p 316-317)
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21.  This MP3 player contains about 350 short
stories and 200 long ones
 Such indigenous m-learning can fill an
enormous gap in Latin America and many
migrant workers in North America. (p 318)
 This programme is focused on providing
teachers where there are none.
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22. IBM‟s Example
„The pace of change is so rapid that
IBM‟s four day virtual
entire industries change within a
seminar which linked
decade. People learn best in a
employees in the
continual apprenticeship where
US, Brazil, Canada, UK, I
employees immediately apply what
ndia and Australia is a
they have learned‟ - Ted Hoff, Chief
good example of
Learning Officer - IBM
combined power
mobile, virtual and
collaborative tools (pg
320)
Productive workers require
performance support on the job.
Learning is on demand and just in
time.
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23. Ideas for the XO came from
Papert‟s ideas about Millions of cheap laptops are being
constructionist learning. The produced for children. This computer
wireless feature allows “XO” is nicknamed to “XO” as well as the
computers to talk to each Children‟s Machine. It is portable,
other, fitted with free web sturdy, wireless and rechargeable with
brower, e-reader allows a hand crank.
learners to
explore, express, collaborate Purchases
, and share information and Italy – 50,000 (purchased
knowledge (p 322) for children in Ethiopia)
Peru – 270000
Uruguay – 100000
2008
Columbia – 50000 (p321)
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24.  Among the first places where the XO was
tested was in Nigeria…Mrs. M a teacher at
Galadima School in Aubija, Nigeria says:
“ With the laptop we can say that out school is
really elevated because the children are really
learning more…They see themselves
discovering things that they have never been
doing before.”
 Negroponte‟s hope in all of this – World
peace through elimination of poverty through
education through learning
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25. TECHNOLOGY
LITERACY
•XO - $ 100
•Indian Government - $ 10 (realized
that the actual price was $ 100)
•MIT announced Plans for a $ 12 laptop
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26.  Mobility allows you to have access to learning
materials at any time but there will be
learning moments that will cause people to
pause and appreciate these new opportunities
to learn. (p 325)
 Mobile and wireless learning devices:
◦ brings new partners into one‟s learning journey
◦ Place our family and personal life more directly into
our work life
◦ Open up learning to entirely new possibilities (p
326)
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27.  With an estimated 4 billion mobile phone user
by 2010 - more than half of the world has
mobile phones and more than 80% live in
areas accessible by mobile devices –
educators need to think of effective and
innovative ways to design and deliver
education with mobile devices
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28.  Professor Bonk has provided in this opener
motivating success stories of initiatives take
to increase learning in areas where getting to
a classroom was not possible.
 In addition this opener provided an
awareness of mobile and wireless
technologies available to support learning.
 Thanks for such inspiration!
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