Mobilizing Around Mobile Learning

June 25, 2012 Keith Krueger CoSN CEO

 Setting the Stage - Keith Krueger, CoSN Major Trends in Mobile Learning Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow Innovative mLearning Implementations - Marie Bjerede, E-Mergents
& Daniel Honore, Kenosha Unified (WI) Hurley, Pearson

The Industry Perspective Kristin Atkins, Qualcomm & Kathy Questions & Answers Tips and Resources

About CoSN
Mission Serving K-12 technology leaders who through their strategic use of technology, improve teaching and learning.

Core Value The primary challenge we face in using technology effectively is human, not technical. Audience School System Technology and education Leaders For that reason, CoSN focuses on Leadership and Policy.
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NMC Horizon K-12 2012

One Year or Less Mobiles & Apps Tablet Computing Two to Three Years Game-Based Learning Personalized Learning Environments Four to Five Years Augmented Reality Natural User Interfaces

Report & Toolkit

www.nmc.org/horizon-project www.cosn.org/horizon

More Statistics
This year 17% of high-school seniors entering college own a tablet 4 x more than lastofyear. Pearson have used an iPhone or iPod Foundation Two-thirds children ages 4-7 Two-thirds of children ages 4-7 have used an iPhone or iPod touch touch

Why Mobile Learning?

Only 13% of districts reported having a ubiquitous computing initiative in place at some grade level. MDR 2010

86% cant use cell phone in class

7/2/12

Yet more than $

Parent/teacher/administrator views of mobile learning: Engagement Extends learning beyond school Personalizes learning Access to online textbook Way to review materials after school

Concerns about BYO Strategies

Parent/teacher/administrator views of mobile learning: Distraction Digital equity Concerns of cheating Lack of skills & curriculum to use mobiles

mLearning Resources

www.cosn.org/ MobileLead CoSN Compendium

www.cosn.org/AUPGuide

New Recommendations
Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media (April 2012) www.cosn.org/MakingProgress

Banning not the answer Educate students on responsible use Emphasize professional development on safe and effective use Rethink and revise acceptable use polices (AUP)

Keith@cosn.org
If we teach today's students as we did yesterday's, we are robbing them of tomorrow.
John Dewey American education reformer 1859-1952

Mobilizing Around Mobile Learning Key Trends

Speak Up 2011 Na,onal Findings Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO

Project Tomorrow 2011

Speak Up Na0onal Research Project

Annual national research project Online surveys + focus groups Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education Institutions receive free report with their own data Collect ideas Stimulate conversations K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators Pre-Service Teachers in Schools of Education Inform policies & programs Analysis and reporting of findings and trends Consulting services to help transform teaching and learning

+ 2.6 million surveys since 2003

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Na,onal Speak Up 2011 Par,cipa,on: 416,758 K-12 Students Teachers & Librarians Parents (in English & Spanish) School/District Administrators 330,117 38,502 44,006 4,133

About the participating schools & districts

o 5,616 schools and 1,250 districts o 24% urban / 35% rural / 41% suburban o All 50 states + DC

Honor Roll of States with highest participation:

TX, CA, AL, IN, AZ, NC, FL, WI, VA, MD

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The Student Vision for Learning

Socialbased learning Untethered learning Digitallyrich learning

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Mobile Learning

Mobilizing Around Mobile Learning Key Trends Access Obstacles Aspira,ons Opportuni,es

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Access

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Obstacles
What obstacles do students face using technology @ school?

Students Top 5: 1.Websites that I need are blocked 2.I cannot use my mobile device 3.I cannot access social media tools 4.Too many rules! 5.Teachers limit our tech use
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59% 55% 51% 48% 42%

How likely are you this year to allow students to use their own mobile devices for instrucLonal purposes at school?

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How likely are you this year to allow students to use their own mobile devices for instrucLonal purposes at school?

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What is holding you back? Top challenges: Concerns about theft of devices Concerns about network security Digital equity issues Teachers are not trained Devices could be a distraction

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Aspira0ons
Views of parents, teachers & administrators

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Students and mobile learning

How would you use a mobile device to help you with schoolwork? A. Increase eec,veness of school: Check grades 81% Take notes for class 67% Access online textbooks 62% Write papers and do homework
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56%

Students and mobile learning

How would you use a mobile device to help you with schoolwork? B. Leverage capabili,es to increase personaliza,on of learning process: AnyLme, anywhere research 72% Receive reminders & alerts 61% 55% 53% 51% Collaborate with peers & teachers Organize schoolwork assignments Access school network from home
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Opportuni0es
How to improve technology use at school?

Students say:
Let me use my own device 54% OR Provide me with device I can use @ school 34%

PS: Also, I need to recharge my devices at school! (36%)

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Mobile learning visions Parents oer a soluLon to the digital equity challenge

If your childs school allowed for the use of mobile devices for educaLonal purposes, how likely is it that you would purchase one for your child?

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Parents oer a solu-on to the digital equity challenge If your childs school allowed for the use of mobile devices for educaLonal purposes, how likely is it that you would purchase one for your child?

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More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org

NaLonal Speak Up Findings and reports Speak Up 2011 data: Apr 24 and May 23 PresentaLons, podcasts and webinars EvaluaLon services & reports Speak Up 2012 for K-12

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Thank you. Lets continue this conversation. Julie Evans Project Tomorrow jevans@tomorrow.org 949-609-4660 x15 Twitter: JulieEvans_PT
Copyright Project Tomorrow 2011. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educaLonal purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and noLce is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires wriben permission from the author.

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learning un-limited

marie bjerede | www.e-Mergents.com | @mbjerede | marieb@e-mergents.com

learning un-limited project

collabora-ve explora-on sweat equity from educator, principal, district IT low cost due to Kajeet business model
android tablets | 3G data | internet ltering | 5th grade class

counterexamples
wri-ng was similar between tablets and netbooks students excelled at managing devices and troubleshoo-ng students quickly became safe and savvy internet users no one-size-ts-all personal device highly important to crea-ng agency

form factor vs. tech maturity

maturity of OS, apps, & market frustra-on masked usability user experience trumps form factor
Android apps evolving rapidly

thank you

marie bjerede | www.e-Mergents.com | @mbjerede | marieb@e-mergents.com

Daniel Honore
CoSN Board Member Former Director of Information Services Kenosha Unified School District

Kenosha, WI dhonore111@gmail.com

CoSN
o Board Member, Emerging Technologies chair and CTO Council cochair

Kenosha Unified School District

o Third largest school district in Wisconsin o 41 schools o 23,000 students

January 17, 2012

Innovative mLearning Implementations

Mountain Brook Schools near Birmingham, AL
Special needs students Students use Proloquo2go, a mobile AAC app
(www.proloquo2go.com)

Sayresville Public Schools in New Jersey

January 17, 2012

WIRELESS REACH
" Empowering Communities Worldwide

The world leader in next-generation mobile technologies

Celebrating 25 years of driving the evolution of wireless communications Making wireless more personal, affordable & accessible to people everywhere Worlds largest fabless semiconductor company, #1 in wireless S&P 100 / S&P 500 / Fortune 500

2011 All-America Executive Team

Mobile: A Vibrant, Unprecedented Opportunity

There is an unprecedented opportunity to leverage humanitys most pervasive global platform to transform the quality and access to learning & education

$1.3 T
2011 Annual Revenue

Mobile Connections

6B+

#1
Most Used Device

Source: Wireless Intelligence, Dec. 11, CIA World Factbook, Dec. 11, Chetan Sharma Consulting, Jul. 11
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Mobile Dominates Growth in Global Broadband Subscriptions

MOBILE HAS SURPASSED FIXED BROADBAND AND THE GAP CONTINUES TO WIDEN

APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF TOTAL BROADBAND SUBS TO BE MOBILE BY 2015

Source: Wireless Intelligence, Apr. 2012

Smartphone Is Becoming a Dominant Computing Platform

>300B Data Rev Growth 2011

>5B Smartphone Sales by 2016

>100B Mobile App Downloads by 2015

Tablet Growth Opportunity

TABLET SHIPMENTS EXPECTED TO GROW AT ~60% EACH YEAR BETWEEN 20102015

Source: Average of ABI Research Jul. 11/Strategy Analytics Jul. 11/Gartner Jun. 11/Informa Jun. 11/Yankee Jun.

Always On, Always Connected Devices

ALWAYS-ON CONNECTIVITY

ALL-DAY BATTERY LIFE

SECURITY

LOCATION AWARE

MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE

UNPRECEDENTED POWER & SPEED

Bridging the Digital Divide in Emerging Regions

PC Installed Base

12% 5%

Fixed Internet Penetration

78%
Source: Gartner (March 2011), Wireless Intelligence (Jan. 12), WBIS+ (Jan. 12).

Mobile Penetration
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Top Trends in Education Technology

Initial Indicators
Technology Trends Mobile Digital content Cloud computing Personal Web Geolocation Low-end devices Social Networking Game-based learning Gesture-based computing Learning Analytics Broad Education Trends Education driving development Distance and online learning Shortage in qualified teachers UN Millennium goals focus on primary schooling competence Consumerization of IT Challenges Students are different, but a lot of educational material is not Growing reliance on formal assessment to measure learning outcomes, but organizations not prepared for managing using data flow Growing expectation in HEd to provide digital content to mobile devices

Connected Teaching
LEARNING COMMUNITIES KNOWLEDGE BUILDING TOOLS INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TOOLS EXPERTISE & AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES SOCIAL NETWORKS

Key Academic Concepts and Skills

Academic Concepts and Skills Applied Within Projects

Knowledge and Skills Related to Individual Interests PERSONALIZED

COMMON

LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Enabling Personalized Education

PARTICIPATIVE COMMUNICATION

INSTRUMENTED LEARNING

MOBILE LEARNING

School Day Extension

24/7 Access

More Data for Analytics

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Technology Implemented for the 21st Century Classroom

Qualcomms innovated technologies enabling leading technology solutions for the new classroom

WWAN
Teachers can access data w/o burdening school infrastructure

Wireless Display
EPOS Wireless Pen

Alljoyn P2P
Device-to-device data transfer between student-teacher Attendance Collaboration

Input can be captured digitally for assessment, feedback, personalization

Augmented Reality
Enhancing student learning and outcomes students can see and engage with material in a new dimension

Trustzone Secure

Join us for Wireless EdTech 2012 October 11-12 in Washington D.C. wirelessedtech.com

Thank you! Kristin Atkins Sr. Director Thank you! Government Affairs

[Your contact name and info here] www.qualcomm.com/wirelessreach

Leadership for Mobile Learning

http://cosn.org/MobileLead

Mobile Learning Explorations

EdWebs Mobile Learning Community Hosted by Lucy Gray, Project Director for the Consortium for School Networkings Leadership for Mobile Learning initiative.

Join the edWeb.net community at: www.edweb.net/mobile

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Keith@cosn.org
If we teach today's students as we did yesterday's, we are robbing them of tomorrow.
John Dewey American educaLon reformer 1859-1952