Our friends at Mobile Learning recently called attention to an excellent mLearning blog by Digital Learning Consultant, Dean Shareski. Shareski’s experience with students and teachers using mobile phones as learning tools demonstrates the tremendous educational potential of these devices in learning contexts.  In his latest installment, Shareski discusses a presentation by his colleague Carla Dolman at the recent TLT conference. For the presentation, Dolman brought along some of her students to help her field many of the tough questions so often asked by educators at any session on mobile learning:

“Did it change your learning? Were you tempted to use it to text or call in off task ways? Was it just a novelty? How did students who didn’t have a cellphone feel? Are you still using it for learning?”

Dean relates that the students not only handled these tough questions, but were also able to facilitate a hands-on learning experience, demonstrating to the audience how they shared files via Bluetooth. Shareski plans to create an online version of the students’ presentation to share their insights with a wider, online audience.  In the meantime, you can view this video of Dolman and some of her students talking about their experiences with mobile learning: