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Mobile learning and the student success imperative
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Mobile learning and the student success imperativeStudies show that test results are higher in classes where students have access to mobile devices. As a result, mobile learning is on the rise, growing by 18.2% a year around the globe. Mobile learning enables schools and teachers to offer students greater choice in how and when they learn, which has a direct impact on students’ intrinsic motivation. This presentation looks at how you can use mobile learning to increase student motivation – and results.
The most important benefit of mobile learning is the ability to increase students’ intrinsic motivation for their work.
Theory The link between mobile learning and increased intrinsic motivation User story Using mobile learning in a real classroom situation Voice & choice Five quick ways to increase motivation with itslearning School leaders For school leaders who want to implement mobile learning at their school
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TheoryThe link between mobile learning and increased intrinsic motivation Research has established that intrinsic motivation has a positive effect on learning and academic achievement. Students who are intrinsically motivated are more likely to engage in tasks willingly and are keener to improve their skills.
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Theory How can mobile learning increase intrinsic motivation? Intrinsic motivation is driven by interest or enjoyment in the task itself. Through the combination of mobile devices and a learning platform, you can increase intrinsic motivation by giving students a voice in what they learn and a choice in how they demonstrate their understanding.
When completing a creative writing assignment, for example, you can encourage your students to choose how to submit their final work: as a video, audio file, written text or even a cartoon. In this context, the mobile device enables the students to work in a format they enjoy and at a time that suits them. The learning platform enables you to easily manage this work, by giving you a digital tool to collect and review the assignments. In addition, you can make feedback available though the learning platform immediately after you have reviewed the work, giving students more time to revise their work before final submission.
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TheoryAutonomy, competence and relatedness Perhaps the most well-known research on intrinsic motivation was completed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan. Deci and Ryan created the Self Determination Theory, in which they identified three intrinsic motivators: autonomy, competence and relatedness.Educators increasingly agree that when these three criteria are satisfied, students succeed in higher-quality learning. In this whitepaper, we will look at a number of ways in which you can use mobile learning to increase student autonomy, competence and relatedness.
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6Theory
Mobile learning is growing globally by
per year
18.2%
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What is mobile learning?
WhaT IS MobIlE lEaRnIng?
It’s hard to define something that changes all the time, but for the purpose of this paper, we have chosen this definition of mobile learning by Crompton, Muilenburg, and Berge.
Mobile learning is learning across multiple contexts, through social and content interactions, using personal electronic devices”
Studies show that standardised test results are higher in classes where students have access to mobile devices. In the US, test scores of low-income students climbed as much as 30 percent after being given access to smartphones.
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What is mobile learning?Mastery + Autonomy = MotivationDan Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, says the secret to high performance and satisfaction at school is the deeply human need to direct our own lives and learn and create new things. He illustrates his point brilliantly in his short animated video.
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https://youtu.be/u6XaPnuFjJc?t=14s
9WhaT IS MobIlE lEaRnIng?
30%
Standardised test results have risen by
when using mobile devices
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User story
USER SToRy
English Teacher Ann Michaelsen’s mobile learning approach creates a ‘digitally rich’ learning
environment where students drive the learning process and make their own discoveries rather than being spoon-fed information.
“one of the greatest gifts we can give our students is the opportunity to create their own education instead of having it delivered to them,” says ann. “With the teacher as an expert and guide, students can learn how to take ownership of the content and get a better sense of what needs to be done.”
The international high school where ann works operates a one-to-one policy, in which every student is provided with a tablet. The school uses the itslearning learning platform to manage student and teacher work. ann takes advantage of these tools to increase her students’ motivation by enabling them to pursue their own interests within a subject and conduct their own research.
Giving students a choice in how they learn, to increase motivation
English Teacher ann Michaelsen|
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User story
USER SToRy
Ann’s simple three-step approach to teaching
Students submit their assignments, are
tested and receive their grades on
itslearning.
The students choose a topic related to the curriculum goals and
then research the topic.
ann makes the curriculum goals available on the
itslearning course dashboard.
English Teacher ann Michaelsen|
User story
As seen on BBC TVAnn and her class wrote a 200-page book called Connected Learners: a Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Global Classroom in 2012. Available as an e-book on Amazon, it is the first book dealing with the digital classroom from a student’s perspective. It discusses the use of blogs, gamification, cloud-based servers, Twitter, Skype, Facebook and search engines in the classroom.
ann can clearly see a link between student choice and student motivation. “With this approach, a lot more students are working hard because they have chosen their topics and something they like to work on.”
as one of her students puts it: “It’s more up to us now. We get a theme and can choose what we want to write about within that theme. We’re more motivated when we choose for ourselves. Then we really put our hearts into it.”
ann’s teaching practice got the attention of the bbC, who came to visit and film her class.
English Teacher ann Michaelsen|
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/26689320
Building real connections with blogsToday’s students use social media to connect and interact with peers. ann puts blogging into a pedagogical context by using blogs to enable her students to get feedback on their work, not just from her, but from students and teachers across the globe. She encourages her students to write blog posts about their work, and asks teachers and students from schools in lesotho, China and north america to add comments – and vice versa.
TOP TIP blogs don’t just have to contain writing. They can also include different types of work, from video and audio files to presentations.
English Teacher ann Michaelsen|User story
Five quick ways to increase student motivation with itslearningMobile learning does not require a one-to-one device policy. There are many ways you can implement mobile learning through the use of itslearning and home computers or computer labs. On the following pages, you can find five techniques that you could start using today.
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Voice & choice
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Voice & choice
VoICE & ChoICE
Using Groups to allow students to focus on what interests them most
Explain that you want your students to teach a topic within a subject to the rest of the class. (For example, if you are teaching about brazil,
the topics could include history, geography, the political system, etc.)
Use the group function in itslearning to create a group for each topic and assign students to a group based on what
topic they are most interested in.
Create a folder for each group that only you and the group can edit. ask the group to find and create their teaching
materials and add them to the folder.
When the group is ready, they use the
materials in the folder to teach the topic to the
rest of the class.
Students are more likely to engage in their learning if the subject is related to their interests. Using groups within itslearning enables you to provide a wider range of topics for students to choose from.
Technique #1|TOP TIP
If you are not sure which topics to include, create a survey in itslearning
with possible topics and see which are the most
popular among your students.
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Voice & choice
VoICE & ChoICE
Using ILPs for self-assessment, competence building and reflectionStudents like to know where they stand and what they should do to make progress. here’s one way to use Individual learning Plans (IlPs) in itslearning to increase motivation by involving the student (and their parents) more deeply in this.
as the student works on the task, go into the IlP and give feedback.
Encourage the student to assess their progress as they move towards their
goals.
Create an IlP for the student and add skills related to the curriculum. ask the student to assess their current skills, and provide a task with clear
goals that will help them improve those skills.
Technique #2|TOP TIP you can give the student’s parents
access to the IlP so they can also assess
progress and add comments.
Voice & choice
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Using discussion boards for peer assessmentStudents like to get feedback on what they have done, especially if they can then use that feedback to improve. This type of formative assessment is usually done by the teacher. here’s one way to widen the feedback to include the student’s peers.
ask the student to complete a task and post the result of their work on a discussion
forum.
ask another student in the class to go into the
discussion and give encouraging feedback.
The first student can then have another go at the task, incorporating the feedback
they have received.
Technique #3|TOP TIP Discussion forums
should be monitored closely to ensure
feedback is positive and constructive.
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Voice & choice
VoICE & ChoICE
Using the itslearning App for more effective assessment for learningStudents respond better to feedback if it comes quickly after the work is handed in. The itslearning App allows you to speed up the assessment for learning process by delivering assessment feedback to students between classes.
With itslearning, you can assess your students’ work anywhere and at any time. give feedback on how the student can improve their work and ask them to make the changes before the final deadline.
once the assessment is completed, the student will be notified immediately by the itslearning Mobile app on their smart phone. They can then review your feedback, make the required changes and upload a new version of the work.
Technique #4|
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Voice & choice
VoICE & ChoICE
Using surveys to personalise class work
Teachers often use examples to create a bridge between school work and the wider world. but often, these wider world examples are still not related to the student. one way to change that is to use surveys to get general information from the class. In this example, the students are practicing how to work out mean, mode and medium averages, but it can be applied to a range of topics.
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Check grades
69%
Take notes
56%
access textbooks
64%
Write papers
1. Create a survey to get your initial numbers. (For example, “how many trees are there in your garden?”) ask the students to complete the survey.
2. give the results of the survey to the students and ask them to work out the mean, mode and medium average.
Technique #5|
Today’s middle schoolers use mobile devices for many tasks:
TOP TIP Ask groups of students
to work out the averages for different surveys, and then ask each group to present their findings to
the rest of the class.
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Download the itslearning App The itslearning Smart Phone app is the smartest way to ensure every student knows what they have to do and when. The app gives students a simple overview of their tasks, homework and assessment on the device they look at most – and notifies them of changes in itslearning, such as new assignments and upcoming deadlines.
For teachers, the real beauty of the itslearning app is that you don’t have to do anything differently. If you make a change in itslearning, the student will be alerted automatically. It’s that easy!
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Mobile learning | What tool to choose?as a central hub from which to direct digital education, the itslearning platform helps you guide your students’ learning, collect their work and assess their progress, and manage assessment and feedback.
The internet is massive, devices are numerous and content is everywhere. itslearning lets you harness the potential of these tools and manage your teaching in a simple and smart way.
here’s a quick overview of which tools can be used to increase your students’ intrinsic motivation, focusing on autonomy, competence and relatedness.
Autonomy: “I am choosing to do this”
giving students the freedom to choose topics that interest them and demonstrate their learning in ways they enjoy.
giving students differentiated material: Folders, Assignments, Groups
Enabling students to choose how they demonstrate their learning: Audio/video recorder, Pages, Surveys, Crossword puzzles
letting students set and assess their own learning goals and voice their learning preferences: Individual Learning Plans, Surveys
Competence: “I’m getting better at this”
Increasing motivation by helping students feel that they are making progress and mastering topics.
Timely, actionable feedback that promotes a feeling of mastery and incorporates assessment for learning: Assignments, Discussion boards, Chats, Email, Audio/Visual recorder, Mobile App
helping students feel in control by letting them know where they are and what they should do to improve: Learning objectives, RubricsProgress reports, Digital tests
Relatedness: “My schoolwork is relevant”
Motivating students by doing work that is relevant to their fellow students and the world beyond school.
Enabling students to connect with others: Discussion boards, Blogs, Chats, eportfolios
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School leaders How to implement mobile learning at your schoolMobile learning has huge benefits. here are four things to keep in mind when implementing mobile learning at your school.
Concentrate on the basics first
Every student wants to know what they are supposed to do and when. Encourage all your teachers to use simple tools in itslearning – like the calendar, planner and tasklists – to ensure their students always have all the information they need.
Define some guidelines
no-one likes to feel they have to be online all the time. This applies to students as well as teachers. Define guidelines for when teachers should be available online outside classroom hours and make these clear to both your teachers and your students.
Set out your strategy before you start, decide what you want to achieve and how you will measure success. For example, decide if you want every teacher in every class using mobile learning or just those teachers in subjects where mobile learning can have the most benefits.
Think pedagogy, not what device
Mobile learning is not device specific. It can happen on a laptop, home computer, tablet or even mobile phone. If your students don’t have access to these things, allow them to use the computer lab at school when they are not in class.
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+75%35% of teachers used a tablet or e-reader in class in 2013, up from 20% in 2012. That’s a 75% increase.
itslearning is mobileLearn EverywhereThe itslearning Mobile App gives students a simple overview of their schoolwork on the device they look at most and sends a notification when a teacher makes a change in itslearning. The result? Students always know what they have to do and when to do it.
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