Mobile Learning in Schools explores the potential for using mobile devices in diverse school and college settings around the globe. It evaluates the exciting opportunities mobile initiatives bring and shares experience of where things can go wrong, in order to ensure that those embarking on new projects are fully informed.
Drawing on a wide range of international perspectives, it unpicks knotty sociocultural issues, including lack of sustainability, behavioural and ethical concerns, and explores successful student learning.
Author(s): Jocelyn Wishart
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
1 Introduction to this book
2 Introducing mobile learning and the associated issues
2.1 Early mobile learning opportunities
2.2 Characteristics and functions of mobile devices that support learning
2.3 Defining mobile learning
2.4 Issues in mobile learning
2.5 Conclusion
3 Current and recent mobile learning teaching and learning initiatives in primary schools
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Inside school
3.3 Outside school
3.4 Bringing the outside inside
3.5 Conclusion
4 Current and recent mobile learning teaching and learning initiatives in secondary schools
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Inside school
4.3 Outside school
4.4 Bringing the outside inside
4.5 Issues in leading school-based mobile learning initiatives
5 Evaluating mobile learning, sustainability and underpinning theory
5.1 Evaluating mobile learning
5.2 Theoretical principles underpinning mobile learning opportunities
5.3 Pedagogical principles underpinning teaching via mobile learning opportunities
5.4 Sustainability of classroom-based mobile learning opportunities
6 Teacher professional development and initial teacher education in mobile learning
6.1 Professional development for mobile learning
6.2 Delivering ITE/CPD by means of mobile learning
6.3 Conclusion
7 Ethical considerations arising in school-based mobile learning
7.1 Ethical concerns reported by teachers and mobile learning researchers
7.2 Policy guidance for teachers
7.3 Advancing ethical frameworks and scenario-based training
7.4 Conclusion
8 Behaviour matters in mobile learning
8.1 Disruptive devices
8.2 Plagiarism and cheating
8.3 Cyberbullying
8.4 Pornography and sexting
8.5 Strategies for prevention of behavioural issues
8.6 Conclusion
9 Assessing mobile learning
9.1 Using mobile devices in formative assessment for learning
9.2 Classroom response systems
9.3 Using mobile devices for summative assessment for qualifications
9.4 The need to develop new assessment mechanisms for the BYOD era
9.5 Possible implications of using mobile devices for assessment
9.6 Conclusion
10 Recommendations for teaching via mobile learning opportunities and future scenarios
10.1 Usability and access issues
10.2 Recommendations for teaching via mobile learning opportunities
10.3 Future thinking
10.4 Conclusion
References
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