Mobile Technologies Workshop - Mobile learning and social networks
1. Mobile learning & social networks Niall Winters Use of mobile technologies to support disease surveillance, education and knowledge sharing in the veterinary sector workshop Kabete Campus, University of Nairobi Vet School, Kenya
9. Why mobile? Why mobile learning? Table from: Sharples, M., Taylor, J., & Vavoula, G. (2007) New Learning New Technology Personalised Personal Learner-centred User-centred Situated Mobile Collaborative Networked Ubiquitous Ubiquitous Lifelong Durable
What we did! The learning experience designed was a groupwork activity for 4-5 final year students. Support discussion on cases that came into the teaching hospital and associated veterinary procedures The task for the students (co-designed with their tutors) was to take photos of particular veterinary procedures during their training rotations. These would be automatically uploaded to a group photo-sharing website (flickr – password protected). Then, in groupwork sessions, their tutor would scroll through the collected images (representing cases and veterinary procedures) and pick ones he felt were of most interest for further discussion. The would then be used as the basis for further image collection by the students, based on issues that around in the groupwork discussion
