Mobile Learning
A Teacher's Toolkit: Harnessing Mobile Technology To Engage Students In Their Own Learning
As technology intersects with education, M-Learning is well positioned to provide opportunity for students to engage in their own learning and display evidence that they have met the curriculum competencies.
This website has been specifically designed with that in mind. With a focus on Junior Sciences (grades 9 & 10), this resource seeks to highlight the advantages that mobile technology has to create flexibility in the learning environment that can engage students and allow them to communicate that learning to stakeholders. As such, mobile devices are well placed to be utilized as a tool that can enable students to self-assess and report their attainment of the new British Columbia Curriculum's Core Competencies.
In an effort to meet the needs of an ever changing society, education continues to evolve and so too does technology. With a humble beginning, distance education was the original attempt to deliver education in a flexible manner.
Now technology has taken that mantel further, allowing learners flexibility in their learning with an anytime anywhere manner, while still maintaining connection with peers and tutors.
E-Learning, or electronic learning, incorporates new technology and applications into the learning environment. Laptops and other electronic devices now allow the delivery of instructional materials and supports connections between student and teacher and between peers. This creates new learning experiences with a potentially larger supported learning community that engages students in an individualized learning experience.
Now technology has taken that mantel further, allowing learners flexibility in their learning with an anytime anywhere manner, while still maintaining connection with peers and tutors.
E-Learning, or electronic learning, incorporates new technology and applications into the learning environment. Laptops and other electronic devices now allow the delivery of instructional materials and supports connections between student and teacher and between peers. This creates new learning experiences with a potentially larger supported learning community that engages students in an individualized learning experience.
As technology evolves, opportunities arise. As mobile technologies begin to move beyond limitations previously experienced with older mobile devices. Mobile learning (or M-Learning) offers a cost effective way to deliver learning, communicate with peers as a community and provide evidence that learning outcomes have been met.
As British Colombians move to a new curriculum, they have recognized the need to develop "Educated Citizens". Such citizens would be capable of meeting the evolving needs of a new world. Core Competencies have been developed to support a flexible learning environment capable of meeting the evolving needs of the community and developing "Educated Citizens".
As British Colombians move to a new curriculum, they have recognized the need to develop "Educated Citizens". Such citizens would be capable of meeting the evolving needs of a new world. Core Competencies have been developed to support a flexible learning environment capable of meeting the evolving needs of the community and developing "Educated Citizens".
This site was created by Robert Hills to fulfill the requirements of the Major Project for the Masters of Education (Leadership) program at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C.
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Created in 2018 by Robert Hills. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License