Mobile Technology for learning

1. Getting on your bicycle

2. Choosing your destination

TECHNOLOGY SELECTION

Media

Audio • Voice calls• Podcast• Teleconferencing

Video• Vodcast• Video conferencing

Delivery

• Email,• SMS, MMS• WAP, FTP• Wiki’s, Blogs• Discussion fora

Transport

• WiFi• 3G/HSDPA/LTE• Bluetooth• Infrared

DevelopmentLanguage

• Java, Java Script• C, C#, C++• PHP, Perl, Python

Operating System

• Android• IOS• Windows Mobile• Blackberry OS

• Mobile phone• Tablet -PC• PDA• E-Readers

Platform

Why use technology?

“Teacher knowledge can be defined as the evolving combination of professional, pedagogical and content knowledge

implemented through personal experience and influenced by society, students and technology”.

Mobile Phone Classifications

Social Media for TeachersUse social networking to stay on top of your teaching game.

Surveys and Polls

Video/Audio

Images

Presentations

• Getting started:

– 1 photo/image

– E-mail address

– www.twitter.com

• Verify information and Sign in

Tweet

Twitterverse

Tweeple

Twitteratie

@ Mention

Use @username to respond to someone directly or get their

attention

RT Re-Tweet

Tweet someone else’s tweet, giving them credit by using

“RT” before their @username

DMDirect Message

Send someone who follows you a private message

#Hashtag

Connects a certain topic or

conversation together.

People who tweet about a

topic or person

People who follow you

The twitter world

What you do when you post

on twitter

Now let’s tweet!

#UnisaScience

Sharing Information and Resources

Showing how it can be used

Short learning programmes offered by CENSE

Technology in Education

Mobile Technology in Education

January 2014

http://cs-cert.unisa.ac.za/