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"You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it."

-Seymour Papert

     

   Hi everyone!

  As we are getting closer to the end of our school term we are getting closer to the last posts of this blog. But this isn't the last one yet so before we say goodbye let's talk about this week's topic which is, as you can see from the picture, "m-learning" a.k.a mobile learning.

  So,what is this m-Learning?

  It is an educational system where you learn via mobile devices. And it is time for us to be aware of the learning opportunities it offers. And here is a video about m-Learning.

                                                     

  

   There is no surprise that there are changes in the learning with every generation, especially with the current generation who are surrounded with technology almost every part of their lives. 

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  → And If we were to talk about its advantages I think everyone would like the idea of learning what they want to learn anytime-anywhere and it is a really motivating aspect. You also have lots and lots of content in your hand that you can learn from without really disturbing your daily routine. And anyone who can use a mobile device can benefit from m-Learning.

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  So this takes us to a recommendation of course. And since we are familiar with duolingo, memrise etc I thought it would be nice to show this one, Hello English.

                                                         

    Hello English is an app for spoken English, grammar and vocabulary.

It is very easy to use. You just download it to your phone like every other app and you you enter it with a gmail account. You choose your own language and a profile.

And the next part is choosing your reasons to learn English.

                                 


     


  There are multiple lessons you can learn from. There are videos and audio recordings.

      

   There are tests you can do and games you can plan. Aaand they give you feedback if you do something wrong. You can practice with daily news and have discussions with teachers too. You can also use the dictionary. And when you are doing all of these you earn points and golds, so it's like a game that you can know your rank around the globe or in your city if you want.






 

   
   And most importantly they send you daily messages that contain vocabulary and a question to test yourself with the word given, also daily life conversation tips etc.
                                                                                                            

 And it is really nice to work with these kind of apps individually but we should know how to make benefit from them while teaching too. 

Tips for teaching with m-Learning

 You can,

- use the games to attract the attention of your students

- ask students to read one of the articles, news or books from there and have discussion in class

- make your students listen to an audio recording or watch a video and answer some of your questions

- use the dictionary and choose some words daily or weekly than ask them to make memory notes with those words(text,picture,drawing) in the app.

Do you have any other idea to use m-Learning for teaching?

Thank you for reading :)