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Talking With Texts: How Cellphones Empower Deaf Children In Uganda, Sacha Develle
Talking With Texts: How Cellphones Empower Deaf Children In Uganda, Sacha Develle
Dr Sacha DeVelle
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Mobile Devices As Assistive Technologies, Sacha Develle
Mobile Devices As Assistive Technologies, Sacha Develle
Dr Sacha DeVelle
As mobile devices continue to make inroads into educational environments in low-resource settings, it is ever more important that learners with disabilities be considered and included in the productive use of these technologies. Indeed, as innovations in mobile technologies continue to proliferate and lead to greater affordability, opportunities abound for providing these learners, long too often forgotten, with the tools and services they need in order to benefit from access to rich educational experiences. This session will explore innovative uses of mobile technologies for inclusive education efforts, including efforts by Cambridge to Africa in using mobile phones to improve education …
How Mobile Phones Help Learning In Secondary Schools, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, Nadja Heym
How Mobile Phones Help Learning In Secondary Schools, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, Nadja Heym
Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
This research took place in 2007-8, at a time when mobile phones had become small, personal computers, providing clock, calendar, games, music player, Bluetooth connection, Internet access, and high-quality camera functions in addition to voice calls and short messaging. The Mobile Life Youth Report (2006) found that by the time they reach secondary school, 91% of 12 year olds in the UK have a mobile phone. Even though recent phone models, sometimes called ‘smart phones’, allow users to read pdf formats, spreadsheets and word-processed files, they have been more usually seen as disruptive, rather than useful, in school education.
Mobile Phones For Learning In Mainstream Schooling: Resistance And Change, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
Mobile Phones For Learning In Mainstream Schooling: Resistance And Change, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
This paper, based on empirical research, considers how structure and agency together reproduce the social practices surrounding mobile phone use in secondary schools in the United Kingdom. Many schools have policies banning their use in class, reflecting and supporting the dominant social construction of mobile phones as tools for social use, but not for learning. This study aimed to understand how mobile phones could support learning in secondary schools, and identified activities across many subject areas and year levels. It also showed that hands-on experience had a positive effect on students’ attitudes to mobile phones for learning in school. The …
What's In A Name? Why We Can't Learn With Mobile Phones, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
What's In A Name? Why We Can't Learn With Mobile Phones, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
A team from the University of Melbourne is exploring the potential of mobile camera phones to support learning in schools and TAFE colleges. This article discusses some of the findings of the study.