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Blending Commonplace Technology Into The Learning Environment
This website was created to provide resources to teachers wanting to harness mobile technology in their classrooms to engage students in their own learning and to highlight how mobile devices can be used by students to evidence learning. The site itself has been divided to several key areas:
The Evolution of Technology in Education: This section investigates the evolution of technology and its relationship to education, M-Learning vs. E-Learning, a SWOT analysis of Mobile Learning and how learning theories such as Blooms' Taxonomy apply to M-learning.
M-Tools, Applications and Resources: This section includes a survey of common mobile devices and tools along with an introduction to some current Science-based educational apps. In addition, this page shares a rubric that has been created to evaluate educational apps.
Mobile Learning in the Classroom: Mobile technology is well placed to be utilized in learning environments to deliver teaching materials, engage students in their learning and to act as an assessment tool, both in the traditional sense and as a self-assessment tool for students. This multi-faceted ability allows M-Learning to meet the self-reporting requirement of the new British Colombia Curriculum. This section highlights how the transition from a traditional lesson to one that incorporates mobile technology is relatively easy and discusses using mobile devices to engage students.
British Columbia’s Core Competencies and Mobile Devices: This section contains resources relating to the new curriculum along with information on the Core Competencies and their self-reporting potential for students. In addition, it provides an exemplar and template to support classroom integration of mobile devices and assist students in self-reporting their attainment the Core Competencies.
The information contained in this website has been developed with specific consideration of Junior Sciences in British Columbia, Canada. Materials could, however, be readily adapted for use in any subject and at any level.
The Evolution of Technology in Education: This section investigates the evolution of technology and its relationship to education, M-Learning vs. E-Learning, a SWOT analysis of Mobile Learning and how learning theories such as Blooms' Taxonomy apply to M-learning.
M-Tools, Applications and Resources: This section includes a survey of common mobile devices and tools along with an introduction to some current Science-based educational apps. In addition, this page shares a rubric that has been created to evaluate educational apps.
Mobile Learning in the Classroom: Mobile technology is well placed to be utilized in learning environments to deliver teaching materials, engage students in their learning and to act as an assessment tool, both in the traditional sense and as a self-assessment tool for students. This multi-faceted ability allows M-Learning to meet the self-reporting requirement of the new British Colombia Curriculum. This section highlights how the transition from a traditional lesson to one that incorporates mobile technology is relatively easy and discusses using mobile devices to engage students.
British Columbia’s Core Competencies and Mobile Devices: This section contains resources relating to the new curriculum along with information on the Core Competencies and their self-reporting potential for students. In addition, it provides an exemplar and template to support classroom integration of mobile devices and assist students in self-reporting their attainment the Core Competencies.
The information contained in this website has been developed with specific consideration of Junior Sciences in British Columbia, Canada. Materials could, however, be readily adapted for use in any subject and at any level.