1. K EYS TO M ULTILITERACY Mobile Learning Devices in English Language Arts Cynthia Shelton, Doctoral Student Walden University 2009

2. N EED “The future belongs to the nation that best educated its citizens.” President Barack Obama, quoted in U.S. News, JANUARY, 2010.

3. M OBILE LEARNING DEVICES iPods MP3 Players Cameras Recording devices =Cell Phones

4. R ESEARCH Cell phones began in 1983—130 million sold in ten years in the U.S. (Rogers, 2003, p. 259). have “almost ideal set of perceived attributes” for rapid adoption (p. 261). have created a life style including: social networking retrieval of data from the cloud www: whenever, where ever, whatever

5. “In the future, materials and models delivered by powerful technologies are likely to be among the chief educating agents” –Howard Gardner (Gardner, 2000, p. 101).

6. WWW. SYMBIAN - FREAK. COM /.../ NEW _ DESIGN _ LEADER. HTM WWW. SYMBIAN - FREAK. COM /.../ NEW _ DESIGN _ LEADER. HTM “Lead thinkers” for this innovation? One is Frank Nuovo of Nokia “ the Henry Ford, or the Calvin Klein, of cellular phones” (Rogers, 2003, p. 261)

7. D EVELOPMENT First users :businesses Now everyone is using them!

8. C OMMERCIALIZATION There are prices, plans, and personalization for everyone. As for the future, an all-paper, 2x3 inch cell phone that can be produced for less than a dollar is already patented and manufactured. (Prensky, 2005) Inventor, Randice-Lisa Altschul created the world's first disposable cell phone, patented in 1999 (Bellis).

9. TIMELINE T HE E VOLUTION OF C ELL P HONE Click on this phone and open a YouTube video.

10. W HY SHOULD WE CARE ? Our students have: Shouldn’t we use them? Right click on this phone and open a YouTube video.

11. W HAT IS MULTILITERACY ? Originated with New London Group Cope and Kalanstzis (2000) The six design elements are:  Linguistic Meaning - language in cultural contexts  Visual Meaning - seeing and viewing  Audio Meaning - hearing and sound  Gestural Meaning - movement  Spacial Meaning - space and place

12. W HAT IS MULTILITERACY ? Also, critical literacy (Collins et al. 1997) “…to develop and awareness of where information has come from, who put it there and why” (Hennessey, Deaney, & Ruthven, p. 269)

13. C ONSTRUCTIVISM Computers and other ICT are tools to mediate social interaction

14. M OBILE L EARNING D EVICES For Linguistic Meaning

15. M OBILE L EARNING D EVICES For Visual Meaning

16. M OBILE L EARNING D EVICES For Audio Meaning Digital Voices podcasts “This I Believe”

17. M OBILE L EARNING D EVICES For Gestural Meaning

18. M OBILE L EARNING D EVICES For Spacial Meaning

19. B EFORE YOU START : I T TAKES A VILLAGE. Check standards in subject and tech Work together with others who have complementary competencies Look for student-centered activities Assess hardscape and softscape Assess capabilities of students

20. REFERENCES: Bellis, M. (n.d.) Disposable cell phones—phone- card-phone. Retrieved from http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa0228 01a.htm Clark, K. (2010) The extreme school makeover. U.S. News and World Report 147 (1) pp. 25-31. Hennessy, S., Deaney, R., & Ruthven, K. (2005). Emerging teacher strategies for mediating ‘Technology-integrated Instructional Conversations’: A socio-cultural Gardner, H. (2000). The disciplined mind: Beyond facts and standardized tests, the k-12 education that every child deserves. New York: Penguin Books.

21. REFERENCES: Prensky, M. (2005). What can you learn from a cell phone? Almost anything! Innovate Journal of Online Education 1 (5). Retrieved from http://www.innovateonline.info/ http://www.innovateonline.info/ Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5 th ed). New York: Free Press.