Mobile Learning

Nicky Hockly has been involved in EFL teaching and teacher training since 1987. She is Director of Pedagogy of The Consultants-E, an online teacher training and development consultancy (www.theconsultants-e.com). She is co-author of How to Teach English with Technology, Learning English as a Foreign Language for Dummies and Teaching Online.
She is currently working on a new book on Digital Literacies, and also on an e-book –Webinars.

We had the chance to listen to her talk (workshop), here in Santa Fe. She gave us very useful ideas and explained how we can use mobile devices in our classrooms, as an alternative to the common (and old-fashioned) way of teaching.

“Using mobile flashcards for vocabulary,watching video podcasts or listening to audio podcasts, using dictionaries on phones are all mobile language learning activities that many learners already do” -she expresses- “What does this mean for us? Well, as teachers it’s up to us to let our students know about the mobile options and apps which are increasingly available to them, many of them for free, and which they can download and use or their own out-of-class learning”. M-learning, then, demonstrates that just with a smartphone, an ordinary device nowadays, we can engage our students in the English lessons and make them more enjoyable and interactive.

You can visit /www.academia.edu/ and read an entry that Nicky herself wrote, to learn more about this topic. Or you can watch her many talks on YouTube, as this one on "Digital Literacies": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDdoRT-qiTI