Mobile education has a great start in the flipped classroom. The concept of a flipped classroom from conferences, professional development and learning I did was to create something that worked for you and your students. There was no one-size-fits-all.
The idea of having rich, in-class learning where the building block videos could be watched at home or during downtime really appealed to me. It allowed me to think about curating ideas and videos for my students as they needed them, and helped me when I would get off track. The idea is to shorten your learning segments to what the student needs to know. Then create that video to upload. Once uploaded, the student can then watch it at home, during class time or any other time, and when they come to class they can learn through tasks and do the more complex concepts with you there to guide them. A video also meant that students could go back over many concepts as they needed it while they were doing assignments, homework or studying for tests.
All of this is possible now through the concept of mobile technology. What it really means to me and the concept of mobile education is the fact that it can be “messy” and teach students how to learn by doing and using the technology around them. It doesn’t replace the teacher, but the teacher becomes a “guide on the side” rather than a “sage on the stage”. Check out the video below by Graham Johnson who has run flipped classrooms for close to a decade in Kelowna.