1. Teaching 21st Century
Learners with
Mobile Devices
Jozenia Colorado, Ph.D.
Emporia State University
EdMedia Conference
June 27, 2012
Denver, CO

2. Agenda
• 21st Century Learners
• Challenges to Using Mobile
Devices in Education
• Opportunities for Using
Mobile Devices in
Education
• Q&A

3. 21st Century Learners
• Digital Natives • Computers
• Net Generation • Internet
• Generation Y • Video Games
• Millenials • Video Cameras
• Generation M • Digital Music Players
(Media Generation) • Mobile Devices

4. Tools for 21st Century Learners

5. Capabilities of Mobile Devices

6. Capabilities of Mobile Devices

7. Challenges

8. Access

9. Student Access to Mobile Devices in 2009
(Project Tomorrow, 2010)
K-2nd 3rd-5th 6th-8th 9-12th
grade grade grade grade
Cell Phone (w/o 18% 29% 59% 67%
internet access)
Smartphone (w/ 14% 17% 24% 31%
internet access)
Laptop/tablet PC 27% 32% 53% 60%
Netbook or mini- n/a n/a 11% 10%
notebook computer
MP3 player 35% 55% 80% 85%
Hand-held game 47% 60% 64% 48%
player

10. BYOD

11. Technology Management

12. Application Management

13. Usability
• Ease of Use
• Universal Accessibility
• Screen Size
• Navigation
• Entering Text Options

14. Inappropriate Use
• Cyberbullying
• Distracting
• Encourages
Multitasking

15. Policy

16. Challenges
• Access • Others:
• Technology – Building Support
Management – Faculty Training
– Hardware
– Software
• Usability
• Inappropriate Use
• Policy

17. Opportunities-Demonstration

19. Special Needs
Augmentative and
Alternative Communication
Apps – Proloquo2Go

20. Special Needs

21. Reading
• Speak Selection
(New with iOS5)
• Instant Dictionary
Access
• Highlighting
• Notes

22. Quick Response (QR) Codes
• Links to
– Websites
– Online Multimedia
• Text
• Contact Information
• Geographic Coordinates
• Maps

23. Quick Response (QR) Codes

24. GPS and Motion X
• Navigation
• Geography
• Travel and
Journaling
• Integrate Photos
and Video
• Geotagged

25. Piccabulary
• K-12 Example
• Find Definitions for
various vocabulary
terms
• Students use mobile
devices or cell phones
to take pictures of
visual representations
of the vocabulary terms

26. Astronomy

27. Mobl21
• Study Guides
• Flash Cards
• Quizzes

28. WildLab Edu
• Pictures
• Audio
• Report sightings
• GPS data is reported
to Cornell Lab of
Ornithology
• Wildlab.org

29. Music

30. Quiz Apps

31. Continued and
Future Research Areas
• Use of Mobile Devices with Special Need
Populations
• Management and Policy Trends
• Motivation of Personalization

32. References
• Colorado, J.T. (2012). Teaching 21st Century
Learners with Mobile Devices. Proceedings –
EdMedia 2012.
• Eberle, J.H. & Colorado, J.T. (2012). I Do and I
Learn: Integrating Technology Through
Collaborative Project-Based Learning. El
Cajon, CA: National Social Science Press.

33. Questions?
Zeni Colorado
Emporia State University
jcolorad@emporia.edu