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Are mobile technologies safe and educationally sound for use within our

classrooms ?

What mobile device do students have and what can they do?

Cokk

Collaboration

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Sharing information Find answers at point of

need

Marking

Synchronising documents across

devices

Access and create primary source

documents

Texting questions and answers

Text book access

Access learning

objects and games

Record video or sound tasks

Peer to peer sharing

Edit and create documents

Note taking

Access and send extra readings or

information

What can they be used for?

In clas

s

• Questioning by text messaging at point of need and to avoid ridicule• Can assist behaviour and concentration• Allows immediate feedback

At home

• Homework completed at a convenient time for student• Synchronise home PC with documents created at school• Create a truly global community- access to classmates, teachers and

the rest of the world,

In the field

• Group work with allocation of roles is possible• Recording of data in a variety of formats.• Finding answers to questions which arise at point of need.• Ability to link tasks to real life situations

How are mobile devices being used in other people’s classes?

Advantages for students

Learning and collaboration: Students can-

Learn at their own speed, not bound by confines of the classroom. Take responsibility for their own learning and prepare for their future.

Have truly differentiated curriculum: aimed at the students needs and strengths

Shape their own meaning using technology they understand and have available.

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Advantages for teachers

• Network with other teachers both locally and globally• Model what it means to be part of a team • Free up teachers time to work at point of need with

smaller groups of students.Professional

• Work from any location with access to students, their work and their benchmarks.

• Synchronise documents between locationsOrganisational

• Engage and extend students in a differentiated curriculum

• Prepare students for the working world they will enter• Improve student outcomes• Improve students enquiry skills

Student learning

Advantages for schools.

Reduce need to access computer

labs

Ensure that more often than not the technology works

Ability for teachers to embed

technology into lessons without a

great deal of support from IT departments

Limited amount of infrastructure

needed

No cost outlay to purchase equipment

Large servers no longer needed

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Disadvantages and barriers to use within our classrooms.

Pedagogy

Feelings of inadequacy

Lack of policy and procedure documents

Fear

Out of date scope and sequence

documents

Fear of losing

control

Organisation

Uncharted territory

Device limitations

Lack of education concerning appropriate

use

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Ethical and equity considerations

EthicalDecrease students

ability for independent thought

Limit higher order thinking

May increase or decrease attention to

task

Little research done on long term effects

Equity

Not all students own mobile devices

The one-on-one model maybe flawed

Should parents foot the bill?

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Support and monitoring of devices?

Can we? Should we? I s educati on a bett er way?

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Where to from here?

What questions we should ask?

What Readings we should do?

1. Ash, K. (2010, March 18th). Teachers Testing Mobile Methods. Education Week, 29(26), 26-27. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/detail?sid=b106587a-0bbf-4bf1-a398-9b5553f49959%40sessionmgr115&vid=3&hid=112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ehh&AN=48817229 This reading looks at the advantages and disadvantages of mobile device use in the class room and gives practical examples of how they can and are used.

2. McCaffrey, M. (2011, February). Why Mobile is a Must. THE Journal, 38(2), 21-22. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/detail?sid=1841e453-ccf5-4474-b40b-d30aa59622b5%40sessionmgr104&vid=1&hid=112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=iih&AN=58523891 McCaffrey examines how the use of mobile devises in the classroom can impart on student learning.

3. Morgan, H. (2010). Using handheld wireless technologies in school: advantageous and disadvantageous? Childhood Education, 87(2), 139-147. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA245884637&v=2.1&u=csu_au&it=r&p=EAIM&sw=w This article looks at the pros and cons of presenting learning material for students on mobile devices.

A. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using student owned mobile devices in our classroom?

B. Do they fit our pedagogy for teaching in the Primary Years Program?C. How would the use of these devices impact on our classrooms and would this

benefit our students?