mobile technologies; professional learner; additional learning; learning to learn; habits of learning; visible learning; self-as-a-learner; SMS; meta-learning
Abstract :
[en] During two school days and two days off, 37 secondary school pupils were offered a daily reflection and reporting exercise about how they learnt in the day (intensity and channels). This experiment had two purposes: (a) to assess the extent to which the mobile phone can be used as an instrument to develop awareness about learning, and (b) to explore how young people attend to their identity as learners when they are prompted to reflect on this theme. Results suggest that students accepted to answer questions about learning on own mobile appliances and outside school hours. The study also provides indications that getting aware of and reflecting about their identity as learners is not a common and/or understood practice for the participants.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
Tabuenca, B; Open Universiteit Nederland > Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies
Ternier, S; Open Universiteit Nederland > Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies
Westera, W; Open Universiteit Nederland > Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies
Specht, M; Open Universiteit Nederland > Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies
Language :
English
Title :
Fostering reflective practice with mobile technologies
Publication date :
18 September 2012
Event name :
1st European Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Learning Networks, In conjunction with the 7th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills (ARTEL/EC-TEL 2012)
Event place :
Saarbrücken, Germany
Event date :
September, 18, 2012
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning
Editor :
Moore, A
Pammer, V
Pannese, L
Prilla, M
Rajagopal, K
Reinhardt, M
Ullman, D
Voigt, C
Publisher :
Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany
ISBN/EAN :
1613-0073
Pages :
87-100
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Commentary :
Tabuenca, B., Verpoorten, D., Ternier, S., Westera, W., & Specht, M. (2012). Fostering reflective practice with mobile technologies. In A. Moore, V. Pammer, L. Pannese, M. Prilla, K. Rajagopal, W. Reinhardt, Th. D. Ullman, & Ch. Voigt (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning. In conjunction with the 7th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills (ARTEL/EC-TEL 2012) (Vol. 931, pp. 87-100). September, 18, 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany. Available online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-931/
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