Topic outline
Introduction
Provide script: The communication and collaboration between teachers, learners and parents, and among teachers and learners are key principles to support the teaching and learning process. How do teachers use mobile devices to facilitate teaching and learning process by helping students to access content and knowledge anywhere and anytime? The mobile devices are transforming the way we teach and learn. They increase learners’ access to information, support learning outside the classroom, facilitate self-directed learning, enable collaboration and skills sharing and promote equity through improved access to quality resources and teaching. Teachers will be able to design lesson plans, deliver lessons, share teaching resources and give assignments using mobile devices. The unit topics is structured as follows:
- Introduction to mobile devices for education
- Advantages and disadvantages of using mobile devices
- Control mechanisms to ensure responsible use of mobile devices in class
- Examples of good mobile device use in teaching and learning
Introduction to mobile devices for education
Please review the following web resources and videos , identify the types of mobile devices and summarize the benefits of using them in teaching and learning process.
Commonwealth of Learning: Benefits of Mobile learning
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eLearning World: 10 Benefits of Tablets in
Classroom - https://myelearningworld.com/10-benefits-of-tablets-in-the-classroom/ 
Advances in Language and
literacy studies(ALS): Application of Mobile devices in the Translation
Classroom- http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/2927 
Vanderbilt University, Centre
for Teaching: Five Ideas for Mobile Learning- https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2011/05/five-ideas-for-mobile-learning-edusprint/ 
Mobilizing Academic Content Online(MACON):Content Formats for mobile
devices- http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/macon/toolkit/content-formats-for-mobile-devices/
Advantages and disadvantages of using mobile devices
Please review the following web and video resources and summarize the advantages and disadvantages of using mobiles devices in teaching and learning process. For more content on this topic, visit the link below:
Commonwealth of Learning: Benefits of Mobile learning
- ;
eLearning World: 10 Benefits of Tablets in
Classroom - https://myelearningworld.com/10-benefits-of-tablets-in-the-classroom/
;
Workbooks: Mobile learning- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mobile_Learning;
Control mechanisms to ensure responsible use of mobile devices in class
Please review the following web resources and videos on the control mechanisms to ensure responsible use of mobile devices in class and establish rules and regulations for proper use of mobiles devices and safety in class and how teachers can help students to abide on established rules and regulations. For more details please refer to the following links:
PSYCHLOPAEDIA:
Mobile devices in the classroom: A helpful or harmful hindrance? https://psychlopaedia.org/learning-and-development/mobile-phones-in-the-classroom-a-helpful-or-harmful-hindrance/
http://cellphonesinlearning.blogspot.com/
Examples of good mobile device use in teaching and learning
Review web resources and videos on using mobiles for teaching and learning. Please review the following web resources and videos, and report on tangible examples of good mobile devices use in teaching and learning. For deepening the content on good examples of good mobile devices use in teaching and learning, please visit the links below:
Mobile
Technology in Education:
Assessment
- Provide a lesson plan that identifies both a specific syllabus objective and a strategy to use mobiles to achieve the objective.
- Deliver a lesson as planned effectively
using mobile devices.
- Use the following tool to upload your lesson plan and video of lesson delivery as evidence.