How 2 Lrn w ur Mobile Device

Learning Quests

The class is broken into Quests that are designed to help you reach the learning objectives. Each Quest has required activities and optional activities to earn more points if you need to catch up.

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Quest 0: Getting Ready

This Quest is designed to help you prepare to complete this online class successfully.

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Quest 1: How do we learn?

This Quest is designed to help you meet the first learning objective for our class: "Describe yourself as a learner in the past, present and future"

Quest 2: How do we affect our own learning?

This Quest is designed to help you meet the second learning objective for our class: "Describe how your body, mind, and network affect your learning"

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Quest 3: How do we learn w/ Mobile techs?

smartphones & mp3 players

tablets

microblogs (e.g., Twitter)

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Quest 4: How do we learn w/ Social techs?

social bookmarking

social networking sites

social games

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Quest 5: How do we learn w/ Media techs?

multimedia

podcasts

screencasts

Quests 3, 4 & 5 are designed to help you meet at least two learning objectives for our class.

Primarily, you'll research and use different technologies specifically for learning, even if those technologies were not originally designed to be used for learning
But you'll also continue to research and use learning strategies designed to improve learning (with those technologies)

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Synthesis Quest: Putting It all Together

In the Synthesis Quest you will demonstrate that you can meet the remaining learning objectives:

Share the student perspective about using technology for learning
Synthesize how using specific learning strategies and various technologies affects your own learning
Reflect on your own self-development for life-long learning and personal transformation

The Synthesis Quest is designed for you to combine what you learned in the individual Metacognition and Technology Quests (Quests 1-5). The word synthesis means creating "a combination of parts, or elements, in order to form a more complete view or system. The whole that results is considered to show the truth more completely than would a mere collection of parts" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/synthesis). Basically, you're going to take everything you've learned about using different technologies for learning and you're going to try to show what it means for you, personally.

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