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Mobile phones and QR-codes used for information and learning at Vifin, Denmark.
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MobisticksAnne Charlotte Petersen
Barcelona 27th April 2012
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The presentationWork with mobiles in Vifin - a short history
Mobisticks
Information
Learning
At the workplace
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Mobidic www.mobidic.dk
November - December 2008
Phrases and words connected to:
Transport Sector: Job interview, Working in Denmark, Living and working, Dialogues, Info (breaks and the like)
Construction Industry: Job interview, Working in Denmark, Living and Working, Safety, Work enviroment
Social Health: Job interview, Working in Denmark, Living and Working, Dialogues with people in your care
Online/Mobile: Text, Sound, Pronunciation
English, German, Polish
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Mobile Language LabAugust 2006 - March 2007
L2 learners, short or long education, intermediate level. L2 speakers in vocational training, job etc.
10 Conversations on video, improvised, 3 minutes
Info about conversations: start, stop, subject, change of subject, listener, grammar etc.
Analysis tools: sequence analysis, concordance analysis, broader analysis.
A learning platform for upload of your own videos and discussion of them
The neighbor, the supermarket, the nursery, the playground, the cafe,
girlfriends, the telecom shop, the canteen,the break, the manager
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Mobile training www.mobilearnblog.dk
May 2009 - September 2012
Aimed at the teachers, courses for the teachers.
How to use to mobile for learning close to work practise. Concepts for the learning.
Usergenerated autenthic learning material through the mobile.
A platform to share the content social media/Evernote. Borrowed phones students own devices. Internet apps
The mobile as a tool: registration/documentation, encyclopedia, communication.
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Mobisticks www.mobisticks.dk
February 2010 - October 2011
Building a website for creating free mobisticks (QR-codes). Informal learning.
Information: Museum of Vejle, The city Archives of Vejle, Økolariet, The job center, Recycling station, City museum
L2 learning - children (grade 8) and adults (language school). Being exemplary
Workplaces
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EvaluationQuantitatively: Knowledge and use of the codes:152 respondents37 - mobile network97 - teachers20 - managers
Qualitatively:
Focus group interview:Nørremarkskolen, Lærdansk Århus, CSV, Økolariet, Museum of Vejle, The city Archives.12 pupils, grade 814 students, language schoolProject managerProject blog
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Økolariet www.okolariet.dk
Knowledge- and activity center: Clima, nature, enviroment, energy, inventions and innovation
Video - with information about the place
Music and nodes - Trædballehuspolka
Quizes - and the answers
Translations in the museum.
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InformationMuseum of Vejle: Motorbikes - sound of the bikes
The City Archives: Home dear Home (videos) + Democracy and citizenship (web pages)
Job center: job opportunities, videos with the counselors
Recycling station: How to sort the garbage, illustrations
City Museum: Further information about the places and plans (videos)
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Information: Conclusions
A good supplement to exhibitions, but can’t stay alone
Makes less written material necessary in the exhibition
A good way to make an exhibition more mobile (geograhically)
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Information: Lesson learnedA good way to involve young people
A good way in general to get in contact with more people/get interest
Information has to be of a good quality and focused
Ought to give an “aha” experience
Urban Story lærke Thorst Balslev
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Mobisticks - at the libraryEasy-readers
A mobistick
A blog - text/audio - book reviews
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LearningGrade 8
Writing about family traditions, scan and share
Film production - working with perspective
2. World War - sticks in chronological order with text and video
German: Grammar explanations. Sound or website.
Language school
Book reviews/recommendations
Teacher created mobisticks related to existing materials - up to date information, other kind of informations. Grammar.
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Learning: ConclusionA good supplement to written material - help understand it
A good way to differentiate the teaching
L2 learners: word explanations, instructionsto use machines, cultural understanding
L2 learnes with long education: relevant in professional contexts
Motivating for children to be allowed to use the mobile
Motivates children to contribute to the production of material
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Learning: Lesson learnedA tool, not at method
Be aware when to use the codes - could you just as easily access the content in another way?
Links to sound, video and images are the best
Be aware of the amount of text to read on the mobile
The Internet Connection has to be working/good
Show/give a way to store the information on the mobile
It’s easier for children to keep track of the information on the mobile, than on papers.
Children, and adults who are not skilled learners, found it difficult to create sticks themself. Adults also to install the scanner
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WorkplaceMarch - December 2011
New- and weaker employees
Creating an exemplary set of mobisticks. Information about
The Danish Labor System
Foreigners at the work places
Language teaching for foreign employees
Information when and where it’s needed. Direct links.
Courses in the use/creation of Mobisticks for managers, HR-employees etc.
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Workplace: Conclusion +lessoned learned
Workplaces do already know QR-codes
Difficult to make the workplaces see the relevance of the codes
Want specific information instead of general information
Small workplaces showed the most interest
Used to help employees with reading difficulties
oral explanation when needed and as many times as needed
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Work places
2. To what extent do you find Mobisticks useful in your work place?3. How likely is it, that you want to use something from the course in the future?
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Lesson learned: In generalsimple website means, that you want to use it. Inspires to use
Irritating with the extra “click” because of the information about payment (access to the Internet)
Possibility of ESP-files would be good (print quality)
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RecommendationsPedagogical templates for the use of mobisticks
Make dialogue possible
User/institution administration of the website
Available statistics on the use of the mobisticks
More kind of content in one stick.
Personalized content when scanning
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