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Packwoman's Film Challenges - Home - 0 views

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    WHY IS FILM IMPORTANT TO STUDENTS? Digital literacy is an important 21st century skill that today's students should be equipped with in order to be well-rounded citizens of tomorrow. One component of digital literacy is media literacy, as demonstrated through the medium of digital storytelling. "
Dena Marger

Student Information Literacy in the Mobile Environment (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

  • A recent survey explored the strategies used by postsecondary students to gather information using Internet-capable cell phones, or smartphones. Notably, users of iPhone and Android devices are beginning to use new search input tools, such as spoken keywords, geographic location, camera images, and barcode or quick-response code scans. Most of the student respondents who conducted information searches on these devices understood the need to evaluate the reliability of what they found. Even though students claim they can read on their smartphones without being distracted, the evidence shows that disruptions did occur in homework sessions and during class time.
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    Published in March of 2011, this article reports on the results of a survey conducted of students at the University of Scranton on the strategies used by postsecondary students to gather information using Internet-capable cell phones, or smartphones. The article concluded: Information literacy instructors should become familiar with new search methods (such as quick response codes) to help students use them effectively and efficiently. Students should be encouraged to review a range of search results, particularly when searching for academic information. Information literacy instructors should help students understand how to evaluate information, especially when it is presented in a nontraditional form, such as a native app. Students may need assistance from educators in applying information literacy skills they have learned while searching on a laptop or desktop to the mobile environment.
sbriere

Mobile Phone Literacy Project | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural O... - 1 views

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    Women and girls constitute the majority of the 775 million illiterates in the world. The main goal of the project is the empowerment of women and/or girls through education via innovative mobile technology-based learning and information programs.
Patricia Palumbo

Mobile Teaching Versus Mobile Learning (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 5 views

    • Frank Barnes
       
      The one doing the work is the one doing the learning. Simply consuming information is not enough "work" to satisfy the notion of rigorous learning.
  • I'd argue that content delivery isn't even half the picture of teaching and learning.
  • Individuals have had access to "portable learning devices" since the advent of the printing press; we call them books
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  • To achieve the promise of mobile learning, we have to stop thinking about these powerful mobile multimedia devices as only consumption devices and get students using them as production devices.
    • Frank Barnes
       
      Addressing more than one of the senses, coupled with response output (the "work" component of learning) makes for a more robust learning experience.
  • Brain researchers have been telling educators for quite a while that engaging multiple senses helps students better learn material. Therefore, the excitement here is not so much about the portability or mobility of these teaching devices; instead, it is that these devices can both convey teaching material in more than two media (text and images) and be portable.
    • Frank Barnes
       
      The 3-D Brain app is one of the first apps I loaded onto my first smartphone and all subsequent devices. It appealed to me at the time (and still does) as moving to a higher level of information accessibility and interaction.
  • it is not enough to just give students PDFs of pages from an anatomy textbook. It's not even enough to allow them to take self-grading quizzes. We need to provide materials or applications that allow students to practice identifying parts of the body on their mobile multimedia devices before taking the high-stakes midterm or final exam.
  • It's one thing to learn about different architectural styles in a Western Civ or Construction textbook or lecture; it's another to apply what you've learned by going out into the community and taking pictures of buildings and then identifying the architectural influences. It's one thing to hear or read about the results of sociology studies about gender bias; it's another to go out, collect primary data, and immediately show, as well as discuss, the dynamically growing study results with the recently queried participant. In both cases the activity of capturing "raw" digital material can lead to further learning or assessment activities where students might develop multimedia projects.
  • access is not an excuse. Just as instructors will need to be creative in developing and assessing these mobile learning activities, instructors and institutions will need to help students be creative in finding access to different mobile multimedia production devices.
  • One of the easiest ways for individual instructors to address the access and support issues is to have students work in groups, share access to resources, and help one another figure out how to do it all. Bonus point: Employers want students who know how to work in groups. Getting students engaged in mobile learning projects might not only better facilitate learning, it might also have them learning about various 21st century literacies like group work, composing in multiple environments, and information literacy.
  • "What makes electronic books a potentially transformative technology is the new kinds of reading experiences that they make possible."
    • Karen Trenosky
       
      New kinds of reading: adding the highlighting features like this app in diigo has enhanced my own reading experience
    • Berta Winiker
       
      keyword is practice
  • At minimum we could be asking our students to capture raw material from the real world and engage with it based on the concepts we are teaching them.
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    Defining mobile learning
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    Common Reading for Week 2
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    The start of a conversation about teaching and learning with mobile tools.
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    I do think of my phone as more of an output device than the tablet or pc. Now It is becoming a bit more of an "input also" device!
Will Bohmann

K-12 Horizon Report - 0 views

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    An exploration of learning using mobile devices would not be complete without reading the most current Horizon Report.  One of my very favorite pull out concepts from the report is something tech integrators say over and over - "Digital literacy is less about tools and more about thinking". The Horizon Reports lays out a good case for mobile tools and personalized learning. A must read.
Will Bohmann

Teaching video literacy for a media revolution | Media Network | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    "Video is the way that we, increasingly, communicate stories, news, information and even ideas to one another. It's powerful because it often transcends barriers of language and of culture. It is universal and powerful. It drives everything from politics to religion, and much in between"
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