Mobile Learning in

Career Programs

Brett McLean

Apprenticeship Coordinator, SD43

Bmclean@sd43.bc.caor simply

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Mobile Learning

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What is SSA?

Purpose of the Program

Eligibility

The Hidden Apprentice

Already working? In a trade?

Communicating the Possibilities

Benefits

For the Students

Scholarships

Accelerated Certification and

Career Exploration

For the District

Course-by-Course Funding

Collaboration and Community-Driven Education

Why Online?

» Distributed Learning and the Road Ahead

• Increasing Accessibility

• Increasing Awareness

Why Online?» Today’s child is bewildered when he

enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules”

• (Marshall McLuhan, 1967).

M-Learning

• Milrad (2003) states that e-learning is

“learning supported by digital

‘electronic’ tools and media, whereas

mobile learning is e-learning using

mobile devices and wireless

transmission (in Hutchinson et al, 2008).

M-Learning

• This definition does not require the

learners to have any actual mobility,

however.

M-Learning

• learners could be using a mobile device

at fixed times, in fixed locations.

M-Learning Definitions

• “In terms of devices and technologies”

whereas others

• “define and conceptualise it in terms of

the mobility of learners and the mobility

of learning” (Traxler 2007)

M-Learning

• Knowledge construction, ‘sage on the

stage’ vs. ‘guide on the side’

M-Learning

• Effective, efficient

• No longer tethered to a time and place

Smartphone and Specialized Mobile Devices

• Polar Heart Rate Monitors

• Polar Heart Rate Monitors

• Understanding what your

heart is telling you and how

much work you are capable

of doing.

• Seeing improvement by

increasing work rate at the

same heart rate level.

Dropbox

• Documenting each

activity log with a

meaningful reflection of

what was applied from the

theory part of the course.

•Using heart rate monitors you can upload

your activity logs into an online journal.

REALLY?

Technology for technology’s sake

Disconnection from here and now

Is it better than what we did before?

It can improve learning

If focus on why and how learning will improve

If it’s easy to use

If we aren’t trying to teach two courses in one

Simple solutions

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Photos of work projects for a later Powerpoint

M-Learning Resources

Tony Vincent - “Learning in Hand”

M-Learning Resources

Tony Vincent - “Learning in Hand”

M-Learning Resources

James McConville - past-president of the PSA “Computer Using Educators of BC”

http://jamesmcconville.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/jmcconville1000

M-Learning Resources

iTunes Podcasts

Thank You!

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