1. Guacamelee copyright Juice Box Games
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
High Ed Web – Michigan
May 20, 2013

2. Andrew Smyk
Program Coordinator
twitter: @andrewsmyk
Interactive Multimedia
Sheridan College
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012

3. New technologies
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetriggerhappypenguin/5141870424

6. Comfy?
Let’s begin
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7. Content Knowledge
1.1
WHAT?!?

8. #icantbelievehejustusedaninvertedgutwrenchpowerbomb
beinchargeofyou.com
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10. Professors With Personal Tweets
Get High Credibility Marks
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-with-personal-tweets-get-high-credibility-marks/30635

11. Content Knowledge
No Twitter
With Twitter
1.8
4.6

12. What do the slate tablet,
pencil, calculator, laptop and
cell phones all have
in common?

13. What do the slate tablet,
pencil, calculator, laptop and
cell phones all have
in common?

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26. .5%
of students will sign up for general SMS
notifications about class

29. 98%

30. 98%
of students will sign up for SMS
notifications if it is about cancelling class

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32. Broadcasting and communicating needs
to be focused and strategic

33. •Folding Chalk Board
+
•Face Time

34. •Folding Chalk Board
+
•Face Time
Building relationships with technology

35. Learning Management Systems
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012

36. Become a LMS Luchador
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012

37. your LMS is a
Black Box

38. build a
Clear Box
experience

39. What about my mobile
LMS app?

41. But it’s a
BYOD
world

42. 55%
can’t participate

45. #ffly #rwd

46. • responsive Wordpress themes
• responsive boiler plates
• responsive frameworks

49. What to learners/students want?
Content Access
Presentation/
Attractiveness
Communicative
Enablement
Technical
Functionality
Learner Support
July – September 2004: International Journal on E-Learning Alex Koohang & Jacques De Plessis

50. It’s all about the
Content
and content access

51. Create opportunities for full (contact)
interaction with your course content

52. Multi-sensory experiences
enhance interaction and the
relationship with content

55. The higher the number of
devices you can reach, the
higher the engagement with
your course content.

56. access = engagement
(that’s pedagogy, baby!)

57. Free-roaming learners
Anywhere, Anytime
57

58. Mobile has become the student’s first choice
for internet access
- NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011

59. 48%
of 18 to 29-year-olds, a mobile phone is
the primary way of getting online
- Cell Internet Use 2012 – Pew Internet

60. 90 percent of young people sleep next
to their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank

61. 90 percent of young people sleep next
to their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank

62. Pivot, Snack, Burst

63. students “snack” in bed and more often
during times of boredom

64. 4 in 10
students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey

65. students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey

66. students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey

67. Quality of Content
Strictly
LMS
1.2
4.6
Mobile
Friendly
Built in Bias?

68. Forge ahead

69. Make mistakes

70. Stay calm

71. There is no road map

75. • encourage tweeting
• provide a hashtag
• post tweets relevant to content
• retweet relevant student tweets
• acknowledge student work*

82. 44% of its active user base
access FB using mobile

83. • posting class notices
• responding to student questions
• general topic conversations
• providing resources

84. Ethnography
• text
• email
• camera

86. Examples of evolving
user interfaces
(photo journal)

90. It’s
OK to make mistakes,
this is not brain surgery
(Unless you are actually doing brain surgery)

91. will
Students
forgive mistakes, when
trying to implement something new.
(You will get lots of feedback how to make it better)
(Unless you’ve performed brain surgery on said students)

93. Questions? Comments?
twitter: @andrewsmyk
andrew@andrewsmyk.com
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/21976482@N04/3244983458/sizes/z/in/photostream/ - treasure - Piotr Lewand
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavercaroline/4425551695/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - phone in bed - Caroline Caver
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photogirlaz/4524779331/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - sleeping - Photo Girl AZ
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/5607484228/ - Lecture Hall – Hack NY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/threehundredsixtyfive/3506146606/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - chalkboard - Unique Apple
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosipaw/4328473236/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - cellphones - Rosie Paw
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenccwu/3403571542/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - student surfing – Stehpen CC Wu
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/437300414_c9c2c0ef78_b.jpg - payphone keyboard
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrycady/5399344827/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - Stanton Cady - speakers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/3986524856/sizes/o/in/photostream/ - Cuba Gallery - old radio
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leehaywood/7509715314/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - Lee Haywood - military radio
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vincetemplement/3333125657/sizes/z/in/photostream/ - zombie - Vince Templement
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherw/536546030/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - messy room - Christopher Woods
http://www.flickr.com/photos/margolove/2309415588/ - Chalk Board –Margolove
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/7382255242/ Trail of Devices – Lyza Danger
Cellphones in a Pile - Courtesy Geitan Lee, flickr.com
Blackboard Mobile Learning - http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Mobile/Products/Mobile-Learn.aspx
Professors With Personal Tweets Get High Credibility Marks
Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
Cell Internet Use
NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011
Educating for innovation
Architecting Usability Properties in the E-Learning Instructional Design Process