Mobile Technologies

Engagement
Content Delivery
Learning style match

How are these apps different?

Goals

• Understand practical applications
• Learn how these apps can be utilized as assessment tools
• Connect the use of the apps to research and standards
• Begin to grow your personal learning network

Structure

• Opener/Pre-assessment
• Instruction, discussion, application
• Closure and formative assessment

Plickers

Research

• Cobcroft, Towers, & Smith (2006) confirm that “mobile technologies are able to support learners’ engagement in creative, collaborative, critical, and communicative learning activities” (p. 25).

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• Traxler (2007) makes two suggestions: mobile learning is uniquely placed to support learning that is personalized, authentic, and situated; and the future will find mobile learning facilitating a wide variety of teaching methods

Learning style research

• Studies using data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) found positive correlations between the use of educational technology and student engagement, notably in collaborative learning and student-faculty interaction (Chen, Lambert, & Guidry, 2010; Nelson Laird & Kuh, 2005)

Padlet

Educations

How to utilize

• If my students use Padlet to organize and record their group conversations, I will know it’s working if I see greater time on task, increased individual participation, and increased engagement due to its ability to address different learning modalities

If my students have difficulty answering questions that require them to synthesize, draw conclusions, make connections between different concepts, then Educations is a great tool because it allows students to explain their thinking in visual terms.

Telagami

Telegami

• Do I find that my students complete my “exit ticket” questions half-heartedly? Do my students leave my class and I wonder, did they really “get” the key information I just presented? I will know if my students got the “gist” of my lesson if they use Telegami and can accurately explain in 30 seconds a question that I pose to them.

Personal Learning Network

• EdSurge - the leading site & newsletter for educators, entrepreneurs, and investors involved in education technology, bringing perspectives and expertise together for better education outcomes.
• FB group: Innovative Educator
• edweb.net - provides free 45 minute webinars on a variety of topics -