Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement

Andrew SmykHigh Ed Web – Michigan

May 20, 2013

Guacamelee copyright Juice Box Games

Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement

Andrew SmykHighWeb Ed – Arkansas

July 27, 2012

Andrew Smyk Program Coordinator twitter: @andrewsmyk

Interactive MultimediaSheridan College

Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement

Andrew SmykHighWeb Ed – Arkansas

July 27, 2012

New technologies

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

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Comfy? Let’s begin

Content Knowledge

1.1

WHAT?!?

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#icantbelievehejustusedaninvertedgutwrenchpowerbomb

beinchargeofyou.com

Professors With Personal TweetsGet High Credibility Marks

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-with-personal-tweets-get-high-credibility-marks/30635

Content Knowledge

1.8

4.6

No Twitter

With Twitter

What do the slate tablet, pencil, calculator, laptop and cell phones all have

in common?

What do the slate tablet, pencil, calculator, laptop and cell phones all have

in common?

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

98%

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

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Broadcasting and communicating needs to be focused and strategic

•Folding Chalk Board+

•Face Time

•Folding Chalk Board+

•Face Time

Building relationships with technology

Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement

Andrew SmykHighWeb Ed – Arkansas

July 27, 2012

Learning Management Systems

Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement

Andrew SmykHighWeb Ed – Arkansas

July 27, 2012

Become a LMS Luchador

Black Boxyour LMS is a

Clear Boxbuild a

experience

What about my mobile LMS app?

BYODBut it’s a

world

55%can’t participate

#ffly #rwd

• responsive Wordpress themes• responsive boiler plates• responsive frameworks

What to learners/students want?

Presentation/ Attractiveness

Content Access

Communicative Enablement

Technical Functionality

Learner Support

July – September 2004: International Journal on E-Learning Alex Koohang & Jacques De Plessis

It’s all about the

Contentand content access

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

Multi-sensory experiences enhance interaction and the

relationship with content

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

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

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Free-roaming learners

Anywhere, Anytime

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

48%of 18 to 29-year-olds, a mobile phone is the primary way of getting online

- Cell Internet Use 2012 – Pew Internet

90 percent of young people sleep nextto their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank

90 percent of young people sleep nextto their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank

Pivot, Snack, Burst

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

4 in 104 in 10students do last second prep on a phone before a test - Hack College Survey

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

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

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

Quality of Content

1.2

4.6

Strictly LMS

Mobile Friendly

Built in Bias?

Forge ahead

Make mistakes

Stay calm

There is no road map

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

44% of its active user base access FB using mobile

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

Ethnography• text• email• camera

Examples of evolving user interfaces

(photo journal)

It’s OK to make mistakes, this is not brain surgery

(Unless you are actually doing brain surgery)

Students will 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)

Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement

Andrew SmykHighWeb Ed – Arkansas

July 27, 2012

Questions? Comments?

twitter: @andrewsmyk

andrew@andrewsmyk.com

Resources & Credits• 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