d4dl workshop presentation at bristol: 9th october 2013

Dr. Kevin Burden: The University of Hull

Designing Meaningful Pedagogies for Mobile Learning in schools

D4DL Mobile Workshop, BRISTOL9th October 2013

Designing Meaningful Pedagogies for Mobile Learning in schools

D4DL Mobile Workshop, BRISTOL9th October 2013

“There is very little evidence that kids learn more, faster or better by using these machines...iPads are marvellous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.”

Larry Cuban, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University New York Times, 2011

•Do we know what pedagogical theories/strategies work best with mobile learning?

•Do we know why and how they work?

•Can we therefore identify key design principles for mobile learning in different environments/contexts?

•What is currently missing from how we design for mobile learning in schools?

Greece:5th century, BC

U.K: 1971

HippocratesJohn Robert

Vane

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1861

John Robert Vane (1971)

Waltham Leas

East Ravendale

Scartho Juniors

Signhills

Middlethorpe

iPod Study, 2009-2012

iPad Scotland Evaluation - 2012

Edinburgh City Council 1:1 Evaluation – 2012-2013

Forrester High School

Gracemount High School

Sciennes Primary

Broomhouse Primary

Headline findings

Modes of ‘ownership’

Class setsPersonal use in school

Ubiquitous Personal use

Significantly greater access to technology when it is needed: ‘just in time’ rather than ‘just in case’

What works?

Personal ownership

Personal ownership

Collaborative learning

What works?

Classroom dynamics

Personal ownership

Collaborative learning

What works?

Informal & situated use limited

Classroom dynamics

Personal ownership

Collaborative learning

What works?

Outdoor learning

Classroom dynamics

Personal ownership

Bridging home-school divide

Collaborative learning

What works?

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On-line learning scenarios survey

http://www.survey.hull.ac.uk/mobilelearningscenario

Collaboration

Data

sharing

Conv

ersa

tion

Authenticity

Contextualis

ed

Situated

Personalisation

Agen

cy

Customisation

A pedagogical frameworkfor mobile learning

Kearney, M., Schuck, S., Burden, K., & Aubusson, P. (2012) Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective,

Research in Learning TechnologyVol. 20, 2012

Newcastle CLC Project: Developing Learning Scenarios, 2013-2014

iPads for Initial Teacher Training (2013-2015)

http://www.mmiweb.org.uk/hull/site/ipad/ipad_1.html

Collaborative Collaborative analysis of analysis of practical practical

problems by problems by researchers and researchers and

practitionerspractitioners

Reflection to Reflection to produce produce ‘‘design design principlesprinciples’’ and and

enhance solution enhance solution implementation implementation

Design Based ResearchDevelopment of Development of initial solution initial solution

driven by design driven by design principles & principles &

technological technological innovationsinnovations

Iterative cycles of Iterative cycles of testing and testing and

refinement of refinement of solutions in solutions in

practicepractice

refinement of problems, solutions and design principles

How can we How can we customise customise

feedback to feedback to students to students to

make it more make it more effective?effective?

Teacher uses Teacher uses App to provide App to provide richer, more richer, more informative informative feedbackfeedback

Prototype design Prototype design modified to modified to

enable students enable students to use App to to use App to make their make their

thinking more thinking more visiblevisible

Extract Extract ‘‘design design principlesprinciples’’::

•Use the App to encourage two-way

flow of feedback data•Focus on ‘threshold concepts’

•Encourage peer-to-peer feedback

•Use feed-back to inform future planning

•Do we know what pedagogical theories/strategies work best with mobile learning?

•Do we know why and how they work?

•Can we therefore identify key design principles for mobile learning in different environments/contexts?

•What is currently missing from how we design for mobile learning in schools?

Conclusions

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Dr. Kevin BurdenThe Centre for Educational StudiesThe Faculty of EducationThe University of Hullk.j.burden@hull.ac.uk07815184477