Mobile Learning

This post is about my reflections on various readings on designing mobile learning.  The research paper by Herrington, Herrington and Mantei is very informative and captures the essence of designing m-learning activities.  What captured my interest was the summary of procedural elements of projects.  The various examples are almost a checklist of a project guide to students - clearly delineating what must be done by the teacher and the students.  I wish I had something like this when I started creating m-learning projects.  

Using this as a guideline, I would now look at mobile learning project as a cluster of assignments that enable students to go through stages of preparation, execution, reflection and dissemination.  The first two stages of mobile learning are no different to other learning activities.  I can now see the extending the learning by adding reflection and dissemination and mediation could very well turn a traditional learning activity to a m-learning.  Depending on the depth of content, each phase of the project could be one assignment.

What is important in this process as also highlighted by the research is working with a community of practice.  This is so important in fostering the adaption of innovation into teaching and learning. Samples of student work in mobile learning from within the same community would motivate and encourage students to taken on the challenge of demonstrating their learning in different ways.  

Indeed, a holistic approach to mobile learning.