Designing Courses With Mobile in Mind

Our schools have seen an influx of new mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones and Android devices for both teachers and students. With all this new technology we should be seeing an immediate improvement, right? Well, not always. New tools and technology are great, but utilizing them to their full potential in education is still an instructional design problem. We will talk about how you can best design your courses to take full advantage of the new mobile features in Canvas for iOS and Android. Plus, we will discuss ways to adapt your content and teaching for mobile devices in general.

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1. Joshua Dutton – Team Lead, Mobile DESIGNING COURSES WITH MOBILE IN MIND
2. Joshua Dutton email: joshua@instructure.com Mobile Team Lead iOS and Android developer 1 year at Instructure B.S. in Computer Science at BYU Professional Musician Been to all 50 states and driven over a million miles Was in the top 10 on America’s Got Talent with family’s musical variety show
3. Current Tools: Canvas for iOS Canvas for Android
4. Canvas for Mobile 2.0 Coming in July Android and iPhone Dashboard/New look Modules Quizzes LTI Tools Free to all Canvas users Tablets coming September Mark Suman demoing today @ 4pm (K-12) Also at the UI/UX booth
5. Allow Mobile Devices in the Classroom “Any time I can involve mobile in the classroom, my students are more engaged.” - Teacher and Canvas User
6. Allow Mobile Devices in the Classroom “[Mobile devices] evidently acted as a motivating influence for students to do their homework.” - “Pedagogy! iPadology! Netbookology! Learning with Mobile Devices”
7. Allow Mobile Devices in the Classroom Have a race to lookup an answer on Wikipedia and text, email or tweet it to the teacher. Bring a Q.R. code to class that links to the syllabus in Canvas or an interesting video on YouTube. Create quizzes that are open device to teach problem solving and discovery. Create a twitter hashtag for your class and keep a live twitter feed open on your desk to see what your students are tweeting about during class.
8. Allow Mobile Devices in the Classroom First person to answer these questions and email me at joshua@instructure.com, wins these Canvas 80s sunglasses. Open internet, open device. 80s Trivia: 1.  What was the first music video played on MTV? 2.  What late 80s pop band had their Grammy revoked? 3.  What is Ted’s full name (from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure)? 4.  What highly caffeinated energy drink came out in 1985?
9. Use Mobile Devices Yourself “Once the teacher utilizes the tool sets available in mobile learning, they begin to see the net benefits.” -  Shawn Gross (Project Director for Project K-Nect)
10. Use Mobile Devices Yourself “The key success factor for any [mobile] program…is the use of devices by engaged, supportive and prepared teachers.” - “Pedagogy! iPadology! Netbookology! Learning with Mobile Devices”
11. Use Learner-Centric Pedagogy “Mobile technologies break down traditional barriers of learning.” - Mark Hess (Principal, Sarah Banks Middle School, Wixom, MI)
12. Focus More on the Pedagogy Than the Technology “The most significant observation is that the importance of the actual digital device is not as critical as the presence of a dedicated curriculum program.” - “Pedagogy! iPadology! Netbookology! Learning with Mobile Devices”
13. Encourage the Use and Discovery of Other Apps iOS: http://www.apple.com/education/apps/ipodtouch- iphone.html Google Play for Education (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/ EDUCATION?hl=en
14. 80s Trivia 1.  What was the first music video played on MTV? –  Video Killed The Radio Star 2.  What late 80s pop band had their Grammy revoked? –  Milli Vanilli 3.  What is Ted’s full name (from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure)? –  Theodore "Ted" Logan 4.  What highly caffeinated energy drink came out in 1985 –  Jolt Cola
15. Joshua Dutton email: joshua@instructure.com What’s Your Experience? Any Questions?