Using Mobile Devices to

Connect in-School to out-of-

school learning

Sandra Sawaya

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action plan

• providing you with practical ideas drawn

from research for how to connect in-

school learning to learning that occurs

beyond classroom walls

• research from seamless learning

what does seamless learning

mean to you?

seamless learning

• continuous learning experience across time, settings, contexts, and social groups

• student can learn whenever they are curious, have the opportunity, need to, or want to

(Chan et al., 2006)

Image from http://seamlesslearning.org/

nurturing the seamless learner

1. setting up seamless learning activities

2. teaching students to identity, capture,

and explore learning opportunities

beyond those defined by set learning

goals

setting up seamless learning

activities

• capitalize on the mobility and connectivity of mobile devices

• consider the social and pedagogicalarrangement of the activity

• choose the right topic for the activity

• understand how students interact with technology, others, content, and context

(Milrad et al. 2013; Wong & Looi, 2011)

setting up

seamless learning

activities

Consider TPACK

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Questions?

seamless learning activities

• include formal and informal learning

• include personalized and social learning

• occur across time and settings

• include access to physical and digital resources

• include interacting with physical and digital worlds

• include the use of several technologies

• include changing learning tasks

• include synthesizing prior and new knowledge

(Wong & Looi, 2011)

Questions?

example: science

• Students using their mobile device to

document the different plants and animals

they see during a field trip to the local zoo.

other examples