Day 4 – What Would It Take…
For me to adopt m-learning for my own teaching and learning, the major hurdle is our server situation as well as our Internet. We would need to be able to have widespread WiFi, and we should have our own dedicated computer / server system. Right now, we are tied in with Health, which can cause problems for both parties.
In teaching and learning, if I ever got to do some m-learning with my students, what would I do?
I like the idea of remote connection to a school learning platform as well as files. I also like the idea of sharing files / material between students (“Bluetoothing”).
Posted in: Week 11: Mobiles
David William Price 1:15 pm on November 18, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Creating a centrally-controlled system does bring up a lot of issues with IT.
What about leveraging the affordances student-owned mobiles already have instead?
mcquaid 11:42 am on November 20, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I think it’s a good idea to some extent. It brings some issues into the fold (especially with privacy and things like photos / videos), but I can see it helping some students in some situations. One major downside is that they wouldn’t be able to access their files on the school system. Everything would have to shift to the cloud. They would all have to have their own data plans, then, too (and many of the families in our school wouldn’t be wealthy enough to provide students with devices let alone good plans).