Other Activities

Moving on from borderless classrooms: What other activities are mobile devices good for?

• Collecting, communicating, authenticity
• Storing, renaming and organising – potential aid to reflection/reinforcing learning on transfer to main PC
• Linking learning opportunities between subjects as student carries mobile device all the time
• Linking students and teachers
• Sharing (web 2.0) / potential of own devices
• Linking different worlds  - classroom and mobile – online via VLE or f2f
• Immersivity and enagement
• Facilitating off-line collaboration despite belief that device is personal
• Integrating with other ICT infrastructure – school networks, PDP portfolios, IWBs
• Instant – on
• Being hidden when not needed
• Downloading music/ podcasts
• Developing information skills and blending learning environments
• Encouraging experimental learning
• Augmented reality – see Japan
• Generating excitement

Things to consider

Disciplines for use of new technologies will need developing