Recently, we have been invited to attend a dissertation about a book called “Going Mobile”, delivered by the Director of Pedagogy, specialized in the area of online teacher training and online course design, Nicky Hockly. As advanced learners of the teacher training programme and owners of this blog, we couldn’t reject the invitation!
To understand what this talk meant to us, you should watch this video. In a nutshell, Nicky talks about Digital Immigrants, web 2.0 resources, keeping a regular blog and blended learning, among other points that we have been dealing with along this year. So, now that you have a clearer idea of why we instantly decided to go to the meeting, let’s focus on it.
As we have said, the meeting was about “Going Mobile”. Nicky started by asking us some questions regarding where we used our mobile phones, and made her point by saying that we never think of using it in educational contexts.
After that, she made us consider the pros and cons of using them, and made some useful and down-to-earth connections between different tasks and the SAMR model (see "Dispelling Myths" post).
Immediately the “hands on” section started which, of course, was what we enjoyed the most. She suggested very simple activities, such as looking up in the pictures gallery of our phones a list of pictures, and talk to our partner about them; or using new apps that work with geographical information. The good thing about the activities suggested was that all of them were easy to apply, and that she always suggested some alternatives to work with different groups according to their access to connectivity, inside or outside the school.
At the end of the meeting we all took a picture with her, she was very nice and put a big smile!
After that, she made us consider the pros and cons of using them, and made some useful and down-to-earth connections between different tasks and the SAMR model (see "Dispelling Myths" post).
Immediately the “hands on” section started which, of course, was what we enjoyed the most. She suggested very simple activities, such as looking up in the pictures gallery of our phones a list of pictures, and talk to our partner about them; or using new apps that work with geographical information. The good thing about the activities suggested was that all of them were easy to apply, and that she always suggested some alternatives to work with different groups according to their access to connectivity, inside or outside the school.
At the end of the meeting we all took a picture with her, she was very nice and put a big smile!
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