Handheld Learning Project: North East Lincolnshire

Kevin Burden: Principal InvestigatorThe University of Hull

SignhillsMiddlethorpeScartho Junior

Waltham Leas

East Ravendale

IntroductionsIntroduce yourself to somebody in

the room you have not met by sharing an application on your mobile

device with them

Explain why you like this app

“Mobile learning – as we understand it – is not about delivering content to mobile devices but, instead, about the processes of coming to know and being

able to operate successfully in, and across, new and ever changing contexts and learning spaces. And, it is about understanding and knowing how to utilise our everyday life-worlds as learning spaces. Therefore, in

case it needs to be stated explicitly, for us mobile learning is not primarily about technology.”

(Pachler, Bachmair and Cook, 2010, p. 6)

Learning as a process of ‘meaning-making’

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Sites of informal learning (pupil’s ‘Life Worlds’)

Sites of formal learning (e.g.

Schools)

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SPACE

School-basedlearning

‘Affinity Spaces’(e.g. dancing club

How does space and time impact on learning?

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Space

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Pedagogical Approach

Authenticity of learning

Complexity of learning

BasicSkills

HigherOrderThinking

Artificial

Real-World

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Didactic Coaching Constructivist

Skill & Drill

Productivity Tools (Office)

Real-WorldSimulations

• What use of technology supports complex thinking and learning? (Y axis?)

• Which pedagogical approaches work most effectively with mobile technologies and to what effect? ( X axis)?

• What technology might act as a springboard for real-world contexts of learning (Z axis)?

Pedagogical Approach

Authenticity of learning

Complexity of learning

BasicSkills

HigherOrderThinking

Artificial

Real-World

contexts

Didactic Coaching Constructivist

What is this project about

• Genesis and background• Schools involved and numbers

The Project Wiki

How can the use of handheld mobile devices ( such as the iPod touch) support the transformation of pedagogical practices in and between primary schools.

How can the use of handheld devices support the transformation

of pedagogical practices in and between primary schools?

Signhills Junior School

Middle-thorpe School

WalthamLeas

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Data collection by University staff

Action Research by school champion

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What pedagogical patterns are most effective for integrating the iPod Touch into classroom practice?

What resources and applications associated with the use of the iPod Touch afford the greatest leverage for deep learning and understanding in the classroom?

How do school leaders and other strategic stakeholders facilitate the adoption, wider take-up and sustainability of technologies such as iPodTouches in and across their institutions?

What models of professional learning best support teachers to maximise their use of the iPod Touch as a teaching and learning tool (both for their pupils and themselves)

How effective is the iPod Touch as part of a strategy to bridge the divide between learning in formal contexts (e.g. schools) and informal contexts (e.g. home, museums) ?

Project timescales

•Work with school champions (Action Research & Training)

•Establish research framework

•Complete baselines surveys

•Implement first round of projects in schools

•Interview sample of participants

•Review and modify first round projects

•Implement modified project (or new topic)

•Conduct interim interviews

•Review and modify second round projects

•Collect data from representative sample

•Summarise action research findings

•Complete final surveys

•Plan for next roll-out

What do we know about handheld learning to date?

http://www.adesontheweb.com/ADEs_on_the_Web/ADE_Hottest_Apps_Blog/ADE_Hottest_Apps_Blog.html

Handheld Learning projects

iLearn Project – Virginia

Radford Outdoor Augmented Reality Project(ROAR)

Kids for Change – games based projects (Spore, Civilisation)

Outbreak

Some ideas

• ROAR – Radford Outdoor augmented Reality project

http://gameslab.radford.edu/ROAR/games/outbreak.html

Augmented Reality Projects (ROAR)

• The Radford Outdoor Augmented Reality project:

StateCraft Xhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=7i_sb8VNuUU

Ways of thinking about this project

Contact detailsKevin Burden, Centre for Educational Studies, The University of Hull, k.j.burden@hull.ac.uk