Discussing The Need For Mobile Serious Games In Africa
Since this week’s theme is mobile games, I decided to do some mining for articles about educational mobile games. Through my research, I found a couple of relevant articles but I picked the one mentioned above as it is close to home. I read the article and agreed with most of it. While I understand […]
A2 ~ Ed-Apped
For our OER project Jamie, Lindsay, Megan, Pascaline, and myself were tasked with investigating mobile educational gaming. So we give you Ed-Apped !! We started off with the idea of creating something akin to Yelp, but for mobile educational gaming, rather than restaurants and bars. But as we worked our way through the process, it […]
A1: #creatednotcopied; An Examination of User Creative Behaviour on Tik Tok
Sorry to be late to the party everyone! For my assignment, I decided to tackle my irritation with Tik Tok. As a Drama teacher, I have always been irritated by trends that encourage my students to use contrived ideas and movement rather than creating their own. This irritation started at a young age when I […]
A1 – The Customisation Phenomenon
I have been fascinated with the trends of device customisation on mobile phones, and how this is an assumed part of mobile culture. The extent to which this reflects individual preferences and the way it is a culture that we subscribe to also has interesting implications for mobile and open education. I thus decided to […]
Questions from our Zoom Chat on Mobile Collaboration
In our weekly Zoom chat, we had an interesting discussion on mobile collaboration, while mobile collaborating. We discussed getting overwhelmed by the number of different apps and spaces to collaborate. We questioned if there could be a platform that could consolidate all chats and messages to one organized place. What do you think? Is this […]
Contact Tracing – Apple and Google partner and release bluetooth API
I saw a meme from a FB friend, who frequently posts questionable conspiracy theorist memes, about the newest iOs and Android updates including contact tracing, so I decided to research and fact check. Turns out, Apple and Google came together to push bluetooth notification technology – rebranded from contact tracing to exposure notification – into […]
A1- Micro Learning and Mobile Assessments
Hi everyone. For my A1, I put together a WIX page on the topic of Micro Learning and Mobile Assessments. I think this is a feature of mobile learning that we will see grow quite a bit in the future, particularly now that folks are working and learning from home more than ever. I’d love […]
A1 – BYOD
Hi Everyone, I have been thinking about BYOD in schools. I think it is only a matter of time before BYOD policies are implemented in schools but there are significant concerns. I am not opposed to BYOD – I think there are great benefits but I do think that some of these concerns must be […]
A1: YouTube
Hello! I did my A1 assignment on YouTube. YouTube is far from a new technology, but as classrooms are moving to the online space due to the current pandemic, educators are looking for ways to offer students variety in the online classroom and are utilizing YouTube more than ever. I thought it might be helpful […]
A1 – Cellphones in the Classroom : A learning tool or a distraction?
I had a lot of fun producing this videocast for my A1 assignement. I decided to discuss the topic of cellphones in schools. I hope you enjoy! Feel free to leave me a comment here, or on my Youtube channel. Here are the references for my analysis. You can also see them at the end […]