1. Apps and Websites as tools in
ESL
Mobile learning
By: Siorella Gonzales
Sánchez
Perú – 2016
2. Pre-questions:
1. What is Mobile learning?
2. What are Digital natives?
3. What apps do you recommend
your students to improve and
practice their English?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5Vy9BgSeY
4. Let’s see…
Who is using?
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Ed-modo
Kindle
Blogs
Apps
Who has?
Cell phone
Smart phone
Blackberry
Android
Iphone
Tablet
Ipad - Ipod
5. • 75% of the world’s
population owns a
portable device and they
have been using 3G since
2007
• Cell phones, smartphones,
iphones, blackberries, HTC as
well as ipads, ipods, tablets,
netbooks, laptops, Personal
Digital Assistants PDAs, e-book
readers, etc…
In short:
Mobile learning is an
“on-the-go’’ learning
7. learning
M-learning is considered to be
the ability to use all mobile
devices to support teaching and
learning.
Mobile devices are handheld,
versatile, motivating, and active
learning tools which can fit in
Marck Prensky:
“Today’s "digital natives" are being exposed to more
gadgets and technology than was ever thought possible.”
"Our students have changed radically. Today's students
are no longer the people our educational system was
designed to teach."
It is a personalized learning. How much you want to learn
depends on you.
10. Foundations of Mobile learning
Constructivism: knowledge must be constructed
by the learner. It cannot be supplied by the
teacher. For the Constructivism humans generate
knowledge and meaning.
Constructivist teachers:
- Pose questions and problems
- Allow multiple interpretations and expressions of
learning (multiple intelligences)
- Encourage group work (sharing of ideas) and the
use of peers as resources (collaborative learning
within and beyond the classroom)
11. Connectivism theory
George Siemens : It is about forming connections
between people through technology. It recognizes
that technology has impacted society and that
thoughts on teaching and learning are shifting.
FUN FACT: Constructivism, Behaviorism, and
cognitivism are the three broad learning theories
most often utilized in the creation of instructional
environments. These theories, however, were
developed in a time when learning was not
impacted through technology. Vaill (1996, p.42).
12. What are we really
preparing students
for?
"When we ban, rather
than embrace real-world
technologies, we leave
students ill-equipped to
know how to harness the
power of technology for
learning.”
Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator bl
“Not every classroom can get a laptop every day, so devices
like smartphones, even if you have to pair up, become
something useful for teachers”
13. Mobile learning is effective when…
Innovation & real world learning fosters creativity.
They learn to integrate artifacts, and experiences that surround their daily lives.
Portability and cross-cultural understanding expands the
learning outside the classroom walls.
Collaboration helps them explore the world around them and share
their thoughts in forums and blogs to the world.
Apps & research in websites are effective and allow them to
search for several possible options, solutions, and answers to problems (or
homework).
It is your role to set rules in
the classroom!
14. REMEMBE
R
6. LEARNING DISABILITIES:
Proloquo2go, is an assistive technology app available on iTunes for children
with special needs.
Autism apps is simply a comprehensive list of apps that are being used with
and by people diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome and other special needs.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autism-apps/id441600681?mt=8
GENERATION “Y” NEW LEARNING STYLES:
1. DOING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWING.
2. NEED FOR IMMEDIACY AND LOW BOREDOM
THRESHOLD,
3. ERROR APPROACH TO PROBLEM SOLVING,
4. MULTITASKERS, VISUAL AND VIRTUAL LEARNERS.
5. THEY CAN ACTUALLY FOCUS MORE WITH MUSIC.
15. 1 minute
REFLEXION
1. Are CURRENT learners
different from learners 15 -
20 years ago?
2. What are the
consequences?
16. e-books and digital materials
Blogging
Google translator, linguee,
wordreference, Merriam
webster
Share photos or videos or
projects via bluetooth,
whassap, Fb, or apps.
Games, Comics
Audiobooks, videos for
listening
Idioms flashcards & tests
APPS in & outside the Classroom
17. WORD LENS
It can translate instantly
using your Phone
camera!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs
19. MARTHA
SPEAKS
"Mobile apps can be
a great learning tool
in the hands of
children”.
Talk to their parents
and they will definitely
thank you.
http://pbskids.org/apps/wordworld-fun-with-wordfriends.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkR8iSTjQLs
20. E-bookshttp://english-e-books.net/category/upper-intermediate/
Students are in constant reading
nowadays, however most of this
reading is performed through
portable devices. Reading an e-
book is by far most appealing for
them than reading a plain, old-
fashioned “real book”. We must take
this advantage!
E-books are portable, easy to
update, cost-effective, and can be
read on almost all mobile devices.
It’s only a matter of time for peruvian educational
institutions to start using e-books into their own
curriculums.
Google play / Play store / Apple
store
- Lectura en ingles
-Easy english reading
-Reading Friendzy
-Romantic love stories
24. FLUENT
ENGLISH
for reading, listening &
pronunciation
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fluentizer.faf
• This application is great
for your students to
practice their
pronunciation, and to
increase their vocabulary.
• Not only does it
reproduce a native
speaker voice but also
gives you a translator
with synonyms to
understand the meaning
of a specific word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giBcWQTKdPM
28. BLOGGING for writing
Blogs are important because
students are more prolific in their
blog posts.
Writing in class seems a lot less
important than writing a blog
because according to most
students their posts will be “out
there”.
30. MOBILE
DIARIES
FOR WRITING IN ENGLISH
- Use smartphones as mobile
diaries.
- Also use them as can set
reminders, make notes, to-
do-list and organize their
schedules using a variety of
free apps and tools that often
come loaded on the device
from their handy device.
33. FACEBO
OK
First you need to
create yourselves a
PAGE!
Then you can tell
your students that
you want to read
their opinions over
the weekend.
The idea is to keep
them engaged to
their learning!
35. Ways To Use Mobile Devices in & outside the Classr
• Snap a photo: Of notes on the
board in class, of assignments,
etc
• Call a friend: Connect with guest
speakers or other classrooms via
skype.
• Use photos from devices as
resources to encourage
speaking.
• Create Fb or whassap groups,
the only rule is USING
ENGLISH.
• Use as a research tool (for web-
enabled devices) for project
36. CREATE A FILM
For a more higher level. You can use a
smartphone and you only need 1 per
group. Task: Interview a native
speaker and ask questions about their
hometown (it may vary).
Play a conversation and record it then
upload the video to a blog, facebook
group, or youtube, so that all the
students can watch it.
Get students to collect a bunch of
photos and then use movie maker,
using their voice for describing the
picsture.
You can check the videos at home
or project the best ones in class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2IaVT_orY
37. Poster project: Take 10 to 20
photos on the weekend (Then tell
a story of your weekend / your
family / your free time activities in
class, etc )
Recycle the vocabulary you practiced in class and exploit your
speaking skills after taking pictures of certain things.
You can extend this to higher levels. Ask them to make a small project
during a weekend in order to tell a story on your Monday lesson.
TAKE
PHOTOS
Take a photo of everything on a
checklist. (e.g. 10 forms of
transportation / food + make an
audio note describing them)
Take a photo of 5 things that
make you happy or sad and tell
us why.
- 5 places you have been / sports
you have practised
38. CAMEROLL
Personalize their learning
5 to 10min activity (countdowntimer),
after that cellphones go back to their
pockets.
1. Find a photo and tell the story.
2. Introduce someone from a photo.
3. Select a photo and get your
students to ask at least 5
questions about it.4. Give 3-5 words (nouns) and ask
students to try to find them in their
pictures, then talk about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIhxohjZNXI
39. Go to your CAMERAROLL and choose 5 photos.
Student A: Show and describe your photos.
Student B: Ask Wh-questions about them.
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/world-games-swimming/
If you dont have
pictures in your
cellphone, work
with a pair of
students and ask
LOTS of
questions to your
partners!
Now, take out your cell phones or
any portable device & Let’s have
fun!
Cell phones traditionally have a bad reputation in educative institutions, but that is starting to change. Instead of banning cell phones, we as forward-thinking educators have to actively embrace them.
There are 6 billion portable devices all over the world.
It is the ‘mobile' aspect of mobile learning that makes it stand apart from other types of learning.
FlemingCollege secondary students work with M-learning they are allowed and encouraged to use their mobile devices in order to research and come up with their presentations
The student is the person who creates new understanding for him/herself. The teacher coaches, moderates, suggests, but allows the students room to experiment, ask questions, try things that don't work. Learning activities require the students' full commitment. But remember you need to be the provider, the model and the monitor to ignite the spark for their searching of knowledge.
Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments.
Many teachers have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to phones out during class , since they assume—most of the time correctly—that their students are using them to text friends or update their various social media sites. But it is your role as a dynamic non traditional new wave teacher to set rules in the classroom. The world inside and outside schools,
Many teachers have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to phones out during class , since they assume—most of the time correctly—that their students are using them to text friends or update their various social media sites. But it is your role as a dynamic non traditional new wave teacher to set rules in the classroom.
You will be surprised to discover that your students are quieter and more focused on their assignments when they are allowed to listen to their music during individual classwork—provided they use headphones and the music is not too loud to distract their classmates.
After all, not all learning can be done digitally— we as teachers have to adapt to the changing times
Other students who may have difficulty speaking, can use the app's library of symbols and text-to-speech conversion to communicate easily and naturally with others. GREAT both in and out of the classroom.
The Apps are all searchable, easy to find and download.
Use e-books and other digital materials as alternatives to lugging around tons of heavy books
We usualy Understimate our students but honestly if we think carefully, we realice that most of our students spend an average of 5 hours online, if not all day.