 Mobile devices can be quite magical for both students and their teachers I'm Shelly Sanchez-Terrell, and I want to tell you today about the magic of mobile learning This is to get you started with the basics Many students today sit in desks all day and learn from textbooks It can be very unhealthy to sit in the desk for eight hours a day With the mobile device you can change this your students can go outside And they can begin taking pictures and audio recordings and make videos of all the learning that surrounds them So you can really tear down the four walls of your classroom Mobile learning promotes better classroom management physical mental well-being continuous learning real-world learning You will see that your students begin to be more creative and because they're moving around They will be engaged and excited and pay more attention plus it's more student-centered Now you may be pretty nervous about teaching the mobile devices But let me tell you that you actually use a mobile device pretty much every single day you train yourself Let's prove it. I'm gonna ask you a few questions Which of the following do you feel comfortable doing on your cell phone? It doesn't have to be a smartphone, but it can or an iPad or an e-book any of those options Do you feel comfortable texting taking a picture or video recording audio? downloading and using apps or using the internet Now you may have figured out that you know how to do many of these things in this particular Poll now these are what are called low-end skills, but these are many of the great things that you can use with your students To create digital stories and many many other types of multimedia projects now These are higher technology higher skilled tasks So you may not know as much, but you'll see that you probably can do a lot with your mobile device How comfortable do you feel editing a picture a video? Creating a QR code creating content with an app or publishing posting on Facebook Tweets pictures all of that are great skills to have Now do you feel much better about your abilities to teach with the mobile device? I told you you know a lot already There are many helpful features that are with come with mobile devices that you can use without The internet so it makes it really fantastic because this is a great tool to have on the goal Students can record audio video capture images. They can take notes. They can scan Different types of information and they can use augmented reality where it's learning But it interacts with the real-world environment. They can text and then they can also Take notes of their location, which can be important, but does come with safety risks Let's get into some great ideas and ways to use your mobile device Well, let's get students to Explore their learning through senses and you can do this with the mobile device for example next time you go on a field trip your students can Take pictures they can record sounds and then they can play guessing games with all this information You can set the criteria. So instead of saying something for example if they go to the aquarium Take a picture of a fish or take a picture of A mollusk or something like that you can say record a sound and they can really interact with the exhibits this way Of an animal that makes a noise. They can actually Talk about it narrate it tell you why they really love this animal So there's so much that they can collect with the mobile device They can play these several games that I'll suggest to you What am I well, even if with their cell phone or an iPad or tablet? They can do any of these activities. This is students choosing an object for example like a Soda pop or and they can capture clues. They can be multi-media tools So for example, they might take a Recording of a sound of it pouring in a glass of them opening the cap They could take pictures really is a close-ups and then they play a guessing game that you mix up the devices And then their partners have to figure out What object they took a picture of or what they were thinking of what they were trying to Discover they can also do this as an icebreaker at the beginning of the year to get to know each other This is called who am I so what they do is they take you can either give them the criteria or the questions ahead of time Like what is your favorite food? Where do you like to go study? What's your favorite color? What is your the place that you love traveling this summer different types of questions? And the students do not say their name But they record themselves reading it on their mobile device and then you switch devices And then they have to guess which they have to find each other Use these clues to find each other It's really great for taking field observation. So this is great for science fair projects or learning about difference Science phenomenons or experiments. They can take a field journal and what they do is they basically Come up with a hypothesis and they observe either Weather or nature or a bug or rocks or anything that changes over time because for a time They're gonna make their hypothesis and then they're gonna take notes Images they can even use the geolocation. I would recommend something like Evernote is a great app for this or they can do This with postures. It's a fantastic app and an online journal It also allows them to record their location, which can be very good for One of these types of projects. They can use this with their science fair projects to gather information Now you may be shaky because he's using it by the water Well, you can use plastic bags and any mobile device and they can still use them the touch devices at least And then they don't ruin them or get their fingerprints. It's a great way to maintain mobile devices I Learned about some of my favorite apps from my students and I've used mobile devices in many many different countries at least 12 different countries and I've taught students as young as two years old all the way to 80 years old in Greece and Germany and the US and So one of the things I like to do is app mingo So students what they do is they usually have a favorite app that they love on their mobile device So let's find out about these apps because these can be really great for learning as well So students get into pairs and then you give them 30 seconds to a minute to show what their app is and Then you blow the whistle and they have to switch partners I spy You can try and figure out while I'm explaining the game I spy has never been done quite as great as with the mobile device and you can try and guess with this little I spy object is here So you can Have your students Categorize what they need to spy it could be something for math like maybe they have to do deca-gons or maybe they have to do angles They could do science concepts Maybe animals that are outside and things like that or they can do grammar concepts You decide the category and then they take a close-up picture and then they take the further back picture Which you can do with the zooming tools and a lot of touch devices and then you play I spy in class You switch devices and you guess my this is my pug Roscoe. Yay. If you guess that and Roscoe Seems to pop in my presentation somehow each presentation And he popped up again show and tell this is great activity for the beginning of the year and to get them familiar with their devices Basically, if you have a bring your own device which students bring their own devices They usually have pictures on it and they have pictures then you get them in groups of three and four and these are actually teachers I've trained in Brazil. I did this with 800 teachers before I said get out your cell phones get into groups of four and Show your different picture and then explain to each other what the meaning is behind the picture where you took it Why you took it and it helps them develop Relationships and really get them to get familiar with the device and it's a great offline activity You don't eat the internet for that scavenger hunt Students get into pairs or small groups because I think it's really great to get students to do peer learning like the God ski says We learn from our peers and then assign them different roles and tasks Maybe one student takes the pictures. Maybe one student gives the criteria of how the scavenger hunt will go They're creating a scavenger hunt for their peers to follow Evernote and scavenger are great apps to do this with you can also lead this as well But it's great to get the students to do as much of the work as possible. So it's very students aren't centered But you can give them guidelines Guess the place so students record sounds of something they hear in their environment a bird or leaves or rain the wind beach You switch devices and then the other student takes a device and they hear the sounds and they guess what and where Is this a bird? Where is this bird at because it's gonna be around the city It can even be around the school You can give them a few minutes to do this outside of class and then the students can actually take these sounds and Incorporate them in a digital storytelling project You create a database of creative common sounds that you can use because you created them Your class created them and it's a great way to teach creative commons as well and make that point come alive Multimedia journals so I believe in having journals for students every single day I usually give them five or ten minutes to write in a journal with the mobile device fantastic It can be a multimedia journal so they can record an audio of what they feel or they can type in text You can use something such as ever note once again, or you can use something such as Posterous or they can even use Google Docs to keep their journals a lot of different types of Blogging Platforms will also have apps where you can use them You can have a free WordPress app edu blogs has a free WordPress has a free app as well for mobile devices Real-world Math problem so the problem with math problems is that a lot of them are not accessible to kids. They can't really Get immersed in them. They they they may not relate to the child's environment So students can bring math concepts to life They can actually take a word problem that you see on the SATs or something like that And what they can do is they can create it for their real world they have to use their Surroundings they get into small groups or pairs and you give them each of the written word problems you teach them the concept of Course and then they create a video of the word problem They pass on to the other students and see if immersing them with this video will help them Learn the word problem and you will find that it does it helps them quite a bit It helps them envision it and it gets them into the practice of when they take these tasks that they're able to really take Envision what the word problem is trying to get them to do that they can be in the place These are some of my favorite apps capsules calm I think a good practice is many times to get an app that works online on the web That's a website as well as Well as an app itself and the reason this is a good practice is because you may have a limited number of mobile devices But also because this way if you you can get students to be able to edit online too If they have a problem editing on their mobile device Capsules will give you an interactive timeline. You can upload video pictures Recordings audio PDFs worksheets anything you want is it pretty much Well, not anything, but various different types of multimedia. The other thing you can do is you scavenger It gives you challenges. It's really great for creating scavenger hunt poplite is a mind mapping app It's collaborative. It's also a website as well, and it's free. You can put links You can put pictures Equal bugs it uses augmented reality. It projects bugs wherever these placemats are Teachers from the UK got together and created this app and on the website They have tons of great lesson plans for students of all ages in many different subjects reading writing English and science Talking Ben and News Reporter is a great app what it does is anything that the students record Becomes a video you can see it here, and it's uploaded here and then Ben and Tom Narrowing narrate the events like their newscasters, so they have to do this in pairs Story kid is a free app to create your own multimedia book now Mrs. Gabby one of the students that I have interacted with in Brazil And she created this using the app I asked her to do this and she created a great story about her family But she could have you can do don't want it. You can add audio. You can add pictures You can also take classics such as the three little pigs Humpty Dumpty and the students can manipulate them They can switch it. They can retell the ending. It's a fantastic app. It only works on i devices though This is it gives you a free private link that you can share with family members, etc And you can use this link to be meled and so it's it's quite private And it does go to a particular website, but they can they can also view it on their mobile device What is a QR code? Well QR codes are basically a quick response barcode And when you go shopping you might realize how you need something to scan it with so the same thing here It's these little Square types of objects and now you can actually make them in different shapes and colors These are a few free apps that are great. I Nigma. I believe that's in all types of devices Spark Q code. This is a great way to color in the apps to make them different colors and the kids like that It's actually a website quick mark is one of my favorite apps It helps create and you pay for it. It's only like a buck. I think and you can create You can create different things as well your own QR code QR code with is an app to color cure codes Q ready and Q rafter on the iPad So you can do something like attach it to video audio or web story make sure it's more than them reading make sure they Can answer polls they can do so many things with it You can integrate with Rialia the P geek comm does this example where he takes a Skeleton and he puts QR codes all around in the students go around and they scan it and they learn about that particular Part of the body. I think that's just so fantastic. He attaches it to games interactive websites and different Audios and YouTube videos and things like that. It's so great You can make a treasure hunt quite easily if you use Russell Tarr's classroom net QR treasure hunt generator and he gives you many many different types of lesson plans on the website as well to use with QR codes Here are some other suggested apps mind blowing is an interactive mind map It only is an iDevices any modo you can create videos Evernote has a series of apps that I recommend there's Scribble there's so many different Evernote apps Just search Evernote and you can see all the suite and I recommend all of them. They're really fantastic PS express be funky are all for manipulating images online and then you have pocket wave HD It's sort of like having audacity on your iPad. It's very very cool. You can edit sounds. You can create podcasts Show me show me in screenshot are great for carrying out lesson plans and then having the students it records everything They do online so they solve a word problem. You can see the steps. It becomes a video There are many many other different types of apps rep apps recommended out there There's so many great resources Kathy Schrock is the queen of mobile learning She's just fantastic and I really recommend visiting her site Kathy Schrock's guide to everything because she does have a guide to everything and she has this wonderful blooms taxonomy Where she shows you different apps for the different layers of blooms iPad apps You can go a t-tweet your iPad dot wiki spaces dot com to find more different apps And then if you want androids well, that's okay because she has a blooms taxonomy for that as well Just let you know Your classroom is going to change and that's a very good thing. It's good to get outside of the classroom walls That's how we learn naturally by sitting down by standing up by using different types of materials So it's okay to interact paper with your iPad projects as well or your mobile device project It doesn't solely have to be just the mobile device You can do lessons that kind of do everything you can storyboard on paper Before actually creating the video with the mobile device Different ways to do that or you can do it solely on the mobile device It's okay. If the students are walking around as long as they're learning Tips have flexible guidelines and rubrics for projects I do recommend that you make a lot of these things project based Included presentations so your students can get used to public speaking and presenting their ideas That are from the eye That are from the mobile device delineate specific tasks for each role, especially in group projects That way everybody has something to do provide enough time for them to do it But also give them time where they do it maybe Extra time whenever they finish maybe they're finishing an assignment from the textbook or something support student input and choices and Post the results online whenever is possible. I love mobile devices. I think they're fantastic But as Bill Gates said technology is just a tool and in terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them You the teacher you are the most important. I Hope that now you have a great adventure with your mobile learning and if you need to know a lot more That's beyond the visible you this video then you can download my free mobile learning guide It has 50 plus quick tips and resources talks about augmented reality qr codes How to get parents on board all the forms for them to fill out how to get your Class full of mobile devices to bring your own device movement how to talk to your administrators about it all these great things If you go to bit.ly slash M learning capital LI and KS it is case sensitive and you can find out more about me at bit.ly slash Shell tarot and yes, it is case sensitive. So capitalized the s and the t you can see me right there Working with a student in Istanbul. We're using the great mouth off app So she can Show me what she learned in English because I do teach language learners all over the world Enjoy your mobile learning journey. It'll be fun and great and can be quite quite magical