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Re: M-Learning & the 'n' gen 'Twitcher'
« Reply #15 on May 17, 2007, 11:41am »

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Hi Phil,
CEPA seems more interesting now, but I wonder whether high school students will use this service.

Hi Salwa,

I'm sure a few will. There was a study in Japan by Masayasu Morita (2003), working with ALC Press which evaluated the use of English language lessons formatted differently for computers and cell phones.

The study found that 90% of cell phone users were still accessing the lessons after 15 days, compared to only 50% of computer users.

Also, originating in the States, GoTestGo provides exam (SAT) type questions by phone.

The UAE ones were quite bland. 4 option multiple choice vocab exercises. Text, no pictures, basically borrrring.

This has great potential though,

"Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with end-users' needs."

Shneiderman (2002)

As you know, all the students here carry phones (sometimes 2 or more) and as yet, it's an untapped market here. Downside you would have to start to learn Java programming and mobile operating systems but it'll definitely be key to the future.

...within a decade a significant proportion of the population will be ‘always on’ using wireless [fully integrated micro-ICT] devices with full desktop capability.

(Peters, 2005)

Actually, there was a lecture in Abu Dhabi women's college about where elearning is going. One avenue that the speaker identified is already in use in the US was called timeshift. This was a system whereby the school system detected if somebody had come late into the carpark. It calculated how much time they had missed, how long it would take them to get to the classroom and then started to feed the material to their phone so that by the time they arrived at the room they were up to speed with the lesson. A form of podcasting I suppose.

I missed the lecture but there is a powerpoint with the links to a lot of the things he was talking about. If I get the PP, I'll post it here.

By all accounts, the future is frightening! Biometrics are in BIG TIME! In education and further afield.

References:

ADMC (2007) Reference to follow.

GoTestGo. Retrieved May, 2007 from http://www.gotestgo.com/media.html

Perters, K. (2005). Learning on the move
Mobile technologies in business and education. In The Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Retrieved May, 2007 from pre2005.flexiblelearning.net.au/projects/resources/2005/Learning%20on%20the%20move_summary.doc

Morita, M. (2003). The mobile-based learning (MBL) in Japan. Paper presented at the first Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, Kyoto, Japan, January. Retrieved May, 2007 from http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/c5/2003/1975/00/19750128.pdf

Shneiderman, B. (2002), Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies (Deutsch von Andreas Holzinger, 2005), Boston (MA), MIT Press.

Wikipedia (2007). Symbian OS. Retrieved May, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS

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« Reply #16 on Jun 8, 2007, 10:01am »

Addiction or just wired differently.

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« Reply #17 on Sept 1, 2008, 10:56am »

More tools for ipods.

Valene (2008). 100 Ways to Use your ipod to Learn and Study Better. In The Best article Every Day. Retrieved August 2008 from http://www.bspcn.com/2008/02/16 /100-ways-to-use-your-ipod-to-learn-and-study-better/

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