Our paper was about mobile learning. Classmates focused on digital literacy and others on the leadership required for the implementation of innovation in the classroom. The subject of our prospectus that we decided to use is about the value of mobile learning. The advantages of mobile learning should be measurable, so the hypothesis used is more or less as follows. Mobile learning saves time and or increases the pleasure of the learning-teaching process for students and teachers. So, the null hypotheses are that mobile learning does not save time and that it does not increase the pleasure of learning or teaching.
In order to get a statistically significant result, I believe it will take at least 6 classes of students. 3 using mobile learning best practices and 3 not. 2 math classes, 2 English or writing classes, and 2 economics courses. Each subject should be split into a mobile and non-mobile class using the exact same graded material such as quizzes, exams, papers, and similar homework loads to be matching so that variables can be kept mostly constant. Since some students may access optional mobile learning online that is not provided by the course a survey at the end will be used to determine how much they did use them. Depending on how much each student used mobile learning they will be separated into categories for happiness measurement and time used measurement in degrees.
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I have had a great experience working on this week’s Literature review. My contribution included contacting the members of my group for the first time by e-mail and to set up meetings, I also created a WhatsApp group and shared and divided the responsibilities. The Wiki group members had opportunities to share their knowledge and contribute to the growth of the group. I felt that starting out organizing the platforms for communication and dividing the responsibilities contributed experience that will help me in my career because networking and organizing are more important skills in online education. I plan to practice these skills more until I have a better sense of what works best with peers. When I set up WhatsApp some peers did not respond well on it and I’m not sure if it is because they are not used to using those particular applications or if the just didn’t want to very much. Either way in the future I’ll probably give to my peers more than one option of different platforms for groupmates to choose from to see if they prefer one over the other. Second Entry Developing a project on the wiki, enhanced my knowledge on mobile learning and on group skills. I am learning how mobile technology and mobile learning improve student’s outcomes as well as empowering the students. Kalissa and Picard (2017) said when the learner is empowered, they are more likely to take an active role in the learning process, thus the student will be able to plan, to organize the knowledge and take control of their learning process. Empowering learners by providing easy to access learning content made for mobile devices students and lifelong learners will benefit more as resources are developed that keep track of the learning and organize it into simple to use applications. The foundations of this are being built up. For example, Khanacademy.org can be used for free from mobile devices for K-12 curriculum and some other optional topics. Students that know to use it can review any concept they have forgotten how to use which helps them keep up in their current classes. This is especially true of math which learners need to remember many of the parts to continue its study and use. Third Entry Working on the wiki has helped me learn how to work in group collaboration. Also, how I can empower the members of the group work on the same project even when the group members are in different time zone locations. We could share ideas on the platform and make sure the work was done. Šerić, M., and Garbin Praničević, D. (2018) declared in their article “Among benefits of online group work, the most frequently mentioned were: possibility to record communication and participation, the flexibility of time and place, and an 'efficient' way of working. Some pros the I like about mobile learning is that the learner can access the contents of the instructions with ease and facility from the most place as an example, if the student is traveling for work, or vacation they can read the course contents. I like to see that the wiki platform keeps track of who is adding to the document, making things easy. I believe this growing technology will increase education globally and collaborating as a group will be more and more efficient in the future. I also see how important group work collaboration is, each individual of the group has opportunities to develop skills that will help them succeed and know more about work management and how to perform in an online work environment after graduation. References Kaliisa, R., & Picard, M. (2017). A Systematic Review on Mobile Learning in Higher Education: The African performance: A meta-analysis and research synthesis. Computers & Education, 94, 252–275. Khanacademy (2019). For every student, every classroom. Real results. Retrieved from http:// https://www.khanacademy.org Šerić, M., & Garbin Praničević, D. (2018). Managing group work in the classroom: An international study on perceived benefits and risks based on students’ cultural background and gender. Management Journal of Contemporary Management Issues, 23(1), 139-156. doi:10.30924/mjcmi/2018.23.1.139 |
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Three most important trends shaping Educational Technology
Reference Hamilton, B. (2015). Integrating technology in the classroom: Tools to meet the needs of every student. Portland, Oregon ; Arlington, Virginia: International Society for Technology in Education. Categories |