Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources. Augmented Reality and Mobile Learning - Interactyx. Let me pose this scenario: Every day, you walk down the same street. You walk past the buildings, see the crowds and yawn. But on this day, you decide to use your smartphone and look down on the screen.
At that moment, you see animation, tweets from people in the area, and you can respond. Interactivity meets reality. Social meets real time visibility. You wonder to yourself, can this work in the e-learning world? Augmented Reality and it is happening as we speak. Augmented Reality – what is it? While AR has been around for years, in the past year new apps for smartphones (inc. iPhone and Android) have been hitting the market. Simply speaking, AR superimposes graphics, audio and other sense enhancements onto real time environments. Specifics, please Uses GPS and thus geolocation, which is built in the latest smartphones3G neededRequires a camera (photo) on your smartphone – again, they all have the capabilityWith AR, you click on the AR app and it enables your camera.
AR Reality 2. 3. 4. 10 essential questions (and answers) about mobile learning. As part of an initiative for ASTD’s upcoming International Conference and Exposition, I was filmed as I responded to 10 questions around mobile (if you’re there, hope to hear how it goes) from Tony Bingham (he came in via conference call). Here is what I wrote up as thoughts before the filming (and then answered spontaneously, but mindful of what I’d written). 1. How do you define mobile learning? I really think mobile learning is about augmenting the brain wherever and whenever you are, or, as I say “accessorize your brain“. Yes, you can get into elegant definitions (I like how Judy Brown mentions size, familiarity, and omnipresence), but really it’s about how it’s used.
I advocate not thinking about courses on a phone, but instead about augmenting formal learning and augmenting performance. 2. 3. Right now, I think the biggest impact is in quick access to needed problem-solutions, whether it’s content, computation, or the right person. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Think strategically. 10. Thinking Differently About Mobile Learning - 2008. Are We Wired For Mobile Learning? Because of the proliferation of new technologies, the younger generation today is outgrowing traditional forms of education – remember pencils, chalkboards, textbooks and graphing calculators?
Whether we are in the car, on the train, at work, or in a classroom, mobile technology in particular is giving us the ability to learn on-the-go. See the infographic below to learn why we are wired for mobile learning, and how we can use mobile technologies to educate ourselves. Note to teachers, bloggers and all those interested: Want to use this infographic in your class or share it on your blog? No problem! The following embed code is yours to copy and paste. Embed this image on your site <a href=" src=" <a href=" Blog</a> (Click Image To Enlarge) Use This Infographic In Your Class.
Mobile Learning Made Easy. M-learning. M-Learning Devices. 2010 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Mobile Computing. Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or LessThe available choices for staying connected while on the go are many — smart phones, netbooks, laptops, and a wide range of other devices access the Internet using cellular-based portable hotspots and mobile broadband cards, in addition to wi-fi that is increasingly available wherever people congregate. At the same time, the devices we carry are becoming ever more capable, and the boundaries between them more and more blurred. In the developed world, mobile computing has become an indispensable part of day-to-day life in the workforce, and a key driver is the increasing ease and speed with which it is possible to access the Internet from virtually anywhere in the world via the ever-expanding cellular network.
Overview Mobiles as a category have proven more interesting and more capable with each passing year, and continue to be a technology with new surprises. Relevance for Teaching, Learning, or Creative Inquiry Chemistry. For Further Reading.