{"id":2100,"date":"2020-06-01T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:03:54","slug":"mobile-learning-and-citizen-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/01\/mobile-learning-and-citizen-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile learning and citizen science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally posted by Jiri Karas on September 27, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/06\/inaturalist-logo-266x300-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2103\" width=\"154\" height=\"174\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having read the resources about lifelong, collaborative learning and opportunities for \u2018just in time\u2019 input via mobile technologies (Hardyman et al., 2013), I was wondering about apps that may provide spaces where similar types of learning can occur. Hardyman\u2019s example focused on the medical profession, where a case-specific situation required applicable information, but there was likely a cumulative effect of such use by the doctor in question. I believe that in non-formal (lifelong) learning contexts and perhaps also in formal education contexts there are opportunities to use &nbsp;citizen science mobile apps for similar types of learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An example is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/\">iNaturalist<\/a>, a citizen science app\/site created by California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. A community of nearly 2 million users is able to share pictures of plants and animals and let other users identify them, add their comments etc. I have been using the app with my kids to learn more about nature in our area as we moved to Vancouver Island only last year and are not too familiar with the flora (more so than with the animals, of course). I can imagine using the app in formal learning contexts at higher K-12 grades as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1512\/files\/sites\/1512\/2019\/09\/inaturalist2-181x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55470\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted by Jiri Karas on September 27, 2019. Having read the resources about lifelong, collaborative learning and opportunities for \u2018just in time\u2019 input via&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/01\/mobile-learning-and-citizen-science\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile learning and citizen science<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":65971,"featured_media":2101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileeducation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}