Lyn Pemberton Marcus Winter Interactive Technologies Research Group University of Brighton, UK SIMOLA: Helping Language Learners Bridge the Gap ICT for Language Learning Florence Oct 2011

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The Mobile Phone as bridge

The Mobile Phone as Bridge

What do we hope for our students?  Effective learning  Deep cognitive processing  Making and strengthening links between concepts  Memorisation, discussion, exams, essays, re- representations…  Making connections between different contexts – lecture theatre, lab, town, workplace, home, outdoors, media, etc (even different modules)

LingoBee – a mobile app to… Collect, annotate and tag unknown, interesting or odd language and culture related content found in everyday life in target language setting Pool these items with other language learners in an online repository and distribute them via rss or SMS alerts

Our target users

design process focus groups d esign sessions

I saw this and thought of 18 th Century rural economics What’s a free house?

I saw this and thought of 18 th Century rural economics What’s a high street bank?

What’s the word/phrase? Hey that’s not right – I’ll write my own entry Show me a picture How’s it pronounced? How would you tag it? What’s the meaning? Is there a link?

Evaluation with University of Sussex pre- sessional language students  will international students use the system?  how do they use it?  what do teachers think?  does it help the students’ learning and engagement? ethics funding

and? phones ethics funding  most suitable for advanced students  needs to be super-usable  phones need to belong to students  students like social media aspects (anonymity issue)  teachers found ways to integrate into classroom teaching and combine in- and outside class work  issues of authoritativeness and misuse

 SIMOLA – Lifelong Learning Project for European Union  Two years - EU 450,000 - began Nov 2010  Seven EU partners & Tokyo U of Agriculture and Technology  University of Brighton  Study Group, UK  Regional Community College of Amsterdam  University of Molise, Italy  Baltic Educational Technology Institute, Lithuania  Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim  Hungarian Virtual University ethics What next?

 If you have an Android phone, download the app and tell us what you think  Encourage Android-owning students to use it  See how online version goes down in class  Get RSS updates to your FaceBook or iGoogle page Like to contribute?

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