Comments on: Mobile phones for learning http://flosse.blogging.fi/2005/09/01/mobile-phones-for-learning/ Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Education Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:19:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tleinone http://flosse.blogging.fi/2005/09/01/mobile-phones-for-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Tleinone Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:53:31 +0000 http://flosse.blogging.fi/2005/09/01/mobile-phones-for-learning/#comment-61 <p>Experiments where students are given mobile phones/PDAs to take pictures and to record audio about something, and then asked to brining them back to the class-room are right now carried out everywhere around the world. This is great, although per see, it doesn’t have anything to do with learning. Anyway this is absolutely fabulous way of using the tools compared to the first wave of experiments where students were given mobile phones/PDA’s with “multimedia content”.</p><p>But what we are trying to create in this project are “practices” rather than “tools”, but still modifying the tools to fit very well to the practices designed. In the design of the practices we naturally face the pedagogica questions: does this improve the way of learning if compared to some other way of doing things? Do students learn in this practice something we haven’t thought they will? Is it good or bad?</p> Experiments where students are given mobile phones/PDAs to take pictures and to record audio about something, and then asked to brining them back to the class-room are right now carried out everywhere around the world. This is great, although per see, it doesn’t have anything to do with learning. Anyway this is absolutely fabulous way of using the tools compared to the first wave of experiments where students were given mobile phones/PDA’s with “multimedia content”.

But what we are trying to create in this project are “practices” rather than “tools”, but still modifying the tools to fit very well to the practices designed. In the design of the practices we naturally face the pedagogica questions: does this improve the way of learning if compared to some other way of doing things? Do students learn in this practice something we haven’t thought they will? Is it good or bad?

]]> By: Prasanna Rambhatla http://flosse.blogging.fi/2005/09/01/mobile-phones-for-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Prasanna Rambhatla Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:47:45 +0000 http://flosse.blogging.fi/2005/09/01/mobile-phones-for-learning/#comment-60 <p>Well.. We did a similar experiment in a class room set-up in the west coast campus of Carnegie Mellon. I used to use the mobile for recording audio and video content in the class and play it to my team time and again. Another interesting feature we observed was posing a query to one of the fellows and it gets forwarded and finally it gets back to us with an answer. That was real fast... I would say a Real- Time Learning environment... and Bunch of times I got answers to my questions.. across the geographies.. This is what the community can do to you.. I am sure internet does the same... But my mobile never made me wired to my laptop.</p> Well.. We did a similar experiment in a class room set-up in the west coast campus of Carnegie Mellon. I used to use the mobile for recording audio and video content in the class and play it to my team time and again. Another interesting feature we observed was posing a query to one of the fellows and it gets forwarded and finally it gets back to us with an answer. That was real fast… I would say a Real- Time Learning environment… and Bunch of times I got answers to my questions.. across the geographies.. This is what the community can do to you.. I am sure internet does the same… But my mobile never made me wired to my laptop.

]]> By: Su http://flosse.blogging.fi/2005/09/01/mobile-phones-for-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Su Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:50:33 +0000 http://flosse.blogging.fi/2005/09/01/mobile-phones-for-learning/#comment-59 <p>Who in Brazil is working in this project? Do you have nore informations about the project?<br /> best,<br /> Suzana</p> Who in Brazil is working in this project? Do you have nore informations about the project?
best,
Suzana

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