Mobile Learning: Using Tablets and Smartphones in the Classroom

Mobile Learning: Using Tablets and Smartphones in the Classroom

Goals

The Mobile Learning course: Using Tablets and Smartphones in the Classroom has as its main objective to integrate mobile technology into the educational environment to improve the teaching-learning process. The specific objectives of the course are:
• Understand the concept of mobile learning: This objective focuses on understanding what mobile learning is and how it can improve education.
• Analyze the evolution of learning with the arrival of ICT and VLE: You will learn about how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) have transformed education.
• Understand the Android operating system: This objective will allow you to understand how the Android operating system works, how to manage files, and how to share information securely.
• Working through a tablet or smartphone: You will learn to use tools that allow you to create common spaces where teachers, students and even parents can access information.
• Use the Tablet or Smartphone as a daily planner: This objective will allow you to learn how to use applications that help you have an overview of the classes.
• Experiment with applications: You will learn to use applications that facilitate the creation of animations, presentations and diagrams to facilitate the teaching-learning process.
• Connect the Tablet as if it were a digital whiteboard: This objective will allow you to learn how to project the screen of your Tablet, using it as a digital whiteboard.
• Encourage interaction with students: You will learn to use applications that allow quick questions and answers, encouraging interaction with students.
• Integrate social networks in class: This objective will allow you to learn how to use the Tablet or Smartphone to integrate social networks in the classroom, creating a more interactive and modern learning environment.
This course will provide you with the skills necessary to effectively integrate mobile technology into the classroom, enhancing the teaching-learning process.

Mobile Learning: Using Tablets and Smartphones in the Classroom

What it prepares you for

For teachers who take the course “Mobile Learning: Using Tablets and Smartphones in the Classroom”, the possibilities for professional development are broad:
• Innovative teacher: You could use the skills you have acquired to innovate in your own classroom, integrating mobile technology into your lessons and activities.
• Teacher trainer: You could share your knowledge with other teachers, training them in the use of mobile technology in the classroom.
• Educational Technology Coordinator: You could coordinate the implementation of mobile technology in your educational institution, ensuring that it is used effectively to enhance learning.
• Educational Technology Consultant: You could advise other educational institutions on how to integrate mobile technology into their curricula.
• Digital content developer for the classroom: You could work on the design and development of digital educational content for mobile devices, adapted to the needs of your students.
These are just some of the career opportunities for teachers who take this course. The skills acquired are highly transferable and could be useful in a variety of roles within the field of education and technology:
• Mobile Technology Educator: You could work as a mobile technology educator, helping other teachers integrate tablets and smartphones into their classrooms.
• Digital educational content designer: You could design and develop educational content for mobile devices.
• Educational application developer: With the knowledge acquired in the course, you could work in the development of educational applications for tablets and smartphones.

Mobile Learning: Using Tablets and Smartphones in the Classroom

Who is it addressed to?

The course “Mobile Learning: Using Tablets and Smartphones in the Classroom” is aimed primarily at:
• Teachers: This course is ideal for teachers of all educational levels who wish to integrate mobile technology into their classrooms to improve the teaching-learning process.
• Education professionals: School principals, academic coordinators, and other education professionals can benefit from this course to understand how mobile technology can be used to improve education.
• Education Students: Students pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in education may find this course useful in understanding the latest trends in educational technology.
• Educational content developers: Those who create educational content for digital platforms can learn how to optimize their content for mobile devices.

• Parents: Parents who want to understand how technology is used in the classroom and how they can support their children’s learning with mobile devices can also benefit from this course.
In summary, this course can be useful for anyone interested in the intersection of education and technology.

Mobile Learning: Using Tablets and Smartphones in the Classroom

Methodology

The course methodology is based on 100% online learning, through the Aula_SMART virtual campus, an innovative and easy-to-use platform that will allow you to access all the course content and resources from any location and device. The course has a highly specialized teaching team, made up of education professionals with extensive experience and training in the analysis of teaching skills. They will accompany and guide you throughout the learning process, through personalized tutoring by phone, chat, email and even videoconference. The teaching method is completely multidisciplinary, as it combines different pedagogical approaches and strategies, such as:

- Theoretical content, where the fundamental concepts and principles of the analysis of teaching competencies will be presented, as well as the normative and reference frameworks that regulate them.
- Practical content, where theoretical knowledge will be applied to real or simulated cases of educational practice, using tools and methodologies to evaluate and develop teaching skills.
- Self-assessment activities, where teachers will reflect on their own teaching performance and on areas of strength and improvement, as well as on strategies to enhance them.
- Collaborative learning activities, where the exchange of experiences, opinions and proposals will be encouraged through forums.

In this way, the course methodology offers you dynamic, participatory training adapted to your needs and interests, which prepares you to be a competent and effective teacher, capable of adapting to the demands and challenges of today's education.