INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES THAT LEVERAGE MOBILE, HANDHELD COMPUTERS

C. Norris and E. Soloway

Keywords

HANDHELD Computers, teachers, students, teaching, learning, instructional

Abstract

Mobile, handheld computing provides teachers and students with unprecedented, new opportunities for teaching and learning. To use these devices effectively, however, teachers need to employ instructional strategies that leverage the affordances of the devices. In turn, these affordances make it easy to employ pedagogically valuable instructional strategies. In this article, we describe seven instructional strategies that meet the desired criteria. We describe their theoretical rationales as well as provide concrete examples of their use in real classrooms.

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