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. 

First Entry
                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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               Well, I wrote about the same topic which we are learning this week in EDUC 639 4 months ago on a discussion board of EDUC 631 class. what I discussed that time in Educ 631 was that as a writer I have several articles written on the website familia.com.br, I wrote those articles after studying a lot about each topic and also some of them were written based on my own experience as an educator, so, they are unique and inspired.
             My feelings are that nobody can use them and pretend they wrote them. In this line of thinking, I believe that each person should learn from kindergarten about copyrights and the effect of plagiarism.
In the two presentational videos: Ask the Expert presented by Dr. David Brown and Dr. Tyler Veak, I learned more how liberty is aware of plagiarism, and they are using software protection (plagiarism prevention software) to make sure teachers know that the student is being honest. Thus, it is surprising the number of students trading their work. However, I also to be honest, really didn’t know when I should use or not use a video in my classroom or get the worksheet for my students from online web resources.
I also like that Liberty University is working to make sure the Liberty students understand the importance of these topics and make sure that all documents are original from the student. The points that were unclear are the part about how the punishment does not match the crime, so what is the punishment if the student is caught cheating what is the real punishment?
  Seidenberg, S. (2014) states that “the purpose of copyright law is to protect inventors, to be unique and not to copy the work of others.”  The laws of copyrights are too old and need to be updated for the velocity of the development of technology.
              Additionally, I believe with the technology that we have and with new ones that are being created, it will be possible to catch someone using the copyrighted material fast. But there is complexity in this issue. There is a need for new laws and changes in the IP policies that keep up with the velocity of new technologies. “Any collection of laws as complex as those related to IP will take time to create and enact, so it is not surprising that these statues lag behind technological, societal, and cultural advances“ (Simonson et al,  p.276)
 
References
 Seidenberg, S. (2014). Music Sales Are Hurt by Copyright Infringement. In C. Ullmann & L. M. Zott (Eds.), Opposing Viewpoints. Copyright Infringement. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press. (Reprinted from ABA Journal, 2010, June, 96[6]) Retrieved from http://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/apps/doc/EJ3010595244/OVIC?u=vic_liberty&sid=OVIC&xid=ff4e4c51
 
Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S. (2015). Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance education. (6th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

               For me, it is very hard to think what kind of theory is most important. There are out there a variety of teaching and learning theories, I have seen in my teaching experience that there are not bad or good theories about teaching and learning. Hamilton started, 2015) “No matter what learning theory you hold when technology is added to a classroom, the learning environment changes. Teachers can change their approaches while the technology is in use, or they will experience frustration trying to impose boundaries on students use” (Hamilton, 2015 p.15).
               I chose one theory that I think is very important in the learning process and the use of technology.
It is cultural-Historical Theory, this theory was founded by  Lev Vygotsky, the theory stresses that” human development interplay between the individual mind and society, as expressed in Vygotsky “ the mind grows through integration with others minds”.  Spector, Merrill, Elen, and Bishop (2014). also says “with regard to educational communication and technologies, cultural-historical theories stress the importance of social interaction with the world” (Spector, Merrill, Elen & Bishop, 2014, p.25). The technology has given to each individual the opportunity to interact with the world in these days. There are online tools e-learning platforms such as Khan Academy, Coursera, TedEd, and Academic Earth, that are helping people learn and interact with others.
              Thus, Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development basically says that people ( children, adults) learn by interacting either with the environment, people and I would also say interaction with technology tools, “by performing meaningful tasks” (Spector, Merrill, Elen & Bishop, 2014).
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Reference
Hamilton, B. (2015). Integrating technology in the classroom. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.
Spector, M., Merrill M., Elen J., & Bishop M. (2014). Handbook of research on educational communications and technology. (4th ed.) New York, NY. Springer.

The most important Trend
Dr. Larry Crites and Dr. Cindy Crites mentioned many interesting topics and issues.  They are Professors at Liberty University.  Some of the topics they spoke about are that technology is separating people from each other, that a lot of their students have English as a second language and this is a current challenge, this is something that has been hard for me personally because the teachers don’t speak my first language. They encouraged students to meet each other over Skype to make strong relationships with others.  It is important to build a network; I totally agree with them. 
                The most important thing to me that they talked about was how their nephew is enrolled in a learning program that has individualized instruction where he uses technology to get ahead and be able to graduate early from high school. The Crites believe this trend of individualized instruction is going to grow significantly.  Dr. L. Crites said, “I think technology is the only way they will be able to do that” (Dr. L. Crites, personal communication 2019).
                I really agree with Dr. L. Crites about personalized instruction, I was already aware of this possibility, but it was interesting to see it happening already.  Hamilton (2015) argued, “The advantage of classroom technology centers is that teachers can easily promote equitable access with limited access to technology, involve all students in using digital tools every day,” (Hamilton, 2015 p. 45). 
Hamilton, B. (2015). Integrating technology in the classroom. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.