In this weeks topic of Mobile learning I almost felt old. I first went through the weekly information and was surprised at some of the topics I did not know much about. For example personal learning environments and massively open on-line courses (mooc's), I guess like the university course we are part of now.
But after thinking for a while in my own household my whole family are all using mobile learning everyday. From my young son who is at the start of his schooling, he is using reading eggs on his Samsung Tablet. This is just one use of the emerging technologies that has not only infiltrated today's classrooms but our homes or for that matter anywhere we want to learn or study.
My daughter has an Apple Ipad and boy does it get a work out. Not only can she look up the information to help her with her schoolwork, but she can Skype her friends and family for (FREE) and access knowledge and information from them. This is part social constructivism and connectivism in a setting of collaborative learning. Digital media literacy is becoming the norm in social spaces and is growing rapidly within school classrooms. With students using mobile learning tools they can use all types of new media from mobile apps cloud and tablet computing to blogs and posts.
My wife and I both use our mobile smart phones for finding information out for both study and social reasons. We can look up the latest topics, trends and referenced research from almost anywhere. With mobile technologies we have the world at the touch of our fingers. Another benefit that I found is that unlike a live interaction you can replay, review and research the information over and over. This type of tool is great for all classroom subjects and students different learning styles.
I think mobile learning is the way of the future, even my mother uses mobile learning and that shows how much of an impact it has on our social community.
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