Pedagogies
Select from the affordances below:
The Mobile Phone
Features of a mobile phone
- Talking 1-to-1
- Group conference
- Hands free (earpiece), Speaker
- SMS
- Listen to audio
- View & share enhanced podcasts
- Photos and video
- Bluetooth transfer
- Web access
- Contacts Address book
- Mini apps:
- Stop watch
- Alarm
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Notes
- Clock, world clock
What can you do with a mobile phone in higher education?
Sharing an address book and text/images
Students may work with a group to collaborate and solve a problem. As each member solves part of the puzzle, they can communicate it to the other members of the group through the address sharing application. As the information accumulates, the students will use the information they receive to build on their own understandings.
Capturing and sharing still images and video footage
Students could capture images around a certain topic, teaching strategy, pedagogical understanding etc and send these to the group. Such images may then be used to reconstruct their understandings through images (and perhaps sound/text).
Students could use images collected in the field in a presentation for their peers to explain a certain concept, teaching or assessment strategy.
Students could capture images in the field to use to stimulate and enrich discussions around planning, programming, whole class, small group and individual learning, the physical environment that is created in learning spaces, the preferred learning styles of different students, the social interactions between students (the negatives such as bullying) and the ways that teachers can cater for and enrich the physical, social, emotional and academic experiences for those within the mainstream classroom. These images could then be used in the construction of a product (perhaps iMovie, PowerPoint, etc) that draws on their focus images, demonstrating how they as educators would enrich the learning experiences for their students.