Mobile Learning: Use of the Tablet and Smartphone in the Classroom

Mobile Learning: Use of the Tablet and Smartphone in the Classroom

Goals

The Mobile Learning course: use of the tablet and smartphone in the classroom aims to integrate mobile technology into the educational environment to improve the teaching-learning process. The specific objectives of the course are:
• Know the concept of Mobile Learning: This goal focuses on understanding what mobile learning is and how education can improve.
• Analyze the evolution of learning with the arrival of ICT and EVA: You will learn about how information and communication technologies (ICT) and virtual learning environments (EVA) have transformed education.
• Knowing 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 safely.
• Work through the tablet or smartphone: You will learn to use tools that allow creating common spaces where teachers, students and even parents can access information.
• Use the tablet or smartphone as a daily agenda: this objective will allow you to learn to use applications that help you have an overview of 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 board: this goal will allow you to learn to project your tablet screen, using it as a digital board.
• Promote interaction with students: you will learn to use applications that allow fast questions and answers, promoting interaction with students.
• Integrate social networks in class: This goal will allow you to learn how to use the tablet or smartphone to integrate social networks into the classroom, creating a more interactive and modern learning environment.
This course will provide you with the necessary skills to effectively integrate mobile technology in the classroom, improving the teaching-learning process.

Mobile Learning: Use of the Tablet and Smartphone in the Classroom

What prepares you

For teachers who carry out the “Mobile Learning: Use of the Tablet and Smartphone in the classroom”, the possibilities of professional development are broad:
• Innovative teacher: You could use the skills 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, forming 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, making sure that it is used effectively to improve learning.
• Educational Technology Consultant: You could advise other educational institutions on how to integrate mobile technology into their study programs.
• 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 professional exits for teachers who carry out this course. Acquired skills 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 specialized educator in mobile technology, helping other teachers to integrate tablets and smartphones in their classrooms.
• Digital educational content designer: You could design and develop educational content for mobile devices.
• Educational Applications Developer: With the knowledge acquired in the course, you could work on the development of educational applications for tablets and smartphones.

Mobile Learning: Use of the Tablet and Smartphone in the Classroom

Who is it addressed

The “Mobile Learning: Use of the Tablet and Smartphone in the classroom” is addressed mainly to:
• Teachers: This course is ideal for teachers of all educational levels who wish to integrate mobile technology in their classrooms to improve the teaching-learning process.
• Education professionals: school directors, 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 who are studying or postgraduate degrees in education can find this useful course to understand 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 wish to understand how technology is used in the classroom and how they can support their children with mobile devices can also benefit from this course.
In short, this course can be useful for anyone interested in the intersection of education and technology

Mobile Learning: Use of the Tablet and Smartphone 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, which will allow you to access all the contents and resources of the course from anywhere and device. The course has a highly specialized teaching team, formed by education professionals with extensive experience and training in the analysis of teaching skills. They will accompany you and guide you throughout the learning process, through personalized tutorials, chat, email and even videoconference. The teaching method is totally multidisciplinary, since it combines different pedagogical approaches and strategies, such as:

- Theoretical contents, where the fundamental concepts and principles of the analysis of the teaching skills will be presented, as well as the normative and reference frameworks that regulate them.
- Practical contents, 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 you will reflect on the teaching performance itself and on the areas of strength and improvement, as well as on the strategies to enhance them.
- Collaborative learning activities, where the exchange of experiences, opinions and proposals through forums will be promoted.

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