№10. MALL. QR code. Augmented reality.

 

Let’s talk about MALL 

MALL

Mobile assisted language learning (MALL) — is language learning that is assisted or enhanced through the use of a handheld mobile device.

MALL is a subset of both Mobile Learning (m-learning) and computer-assisted language learning (CALL). MALL has evolved to support students’ language learning with the increased use of mobile technologies. With MALL, students are able to access language learning materials and to communicate with their teachers and peers at any time, anywhere.

MALL offers new dynamic ways of learning a language that nowadays are not possible in traditional classes because it offers collaboration in small groups. Here are 5 main principles of MALL:

📍Portability — the small size and weight of mobile devices means they can be taken to different sites or moved around within a site.
📍Social interactivity — data exchange and collaboration with other learners can happen face-to-face.
📍Context sensitivity — mobile devices can both gather and respond to real or simulated data unique to the current location, environment and time.
📍Connectivity — a shared network can be created by connecting mobile devices to data collection devices, other devices or to a common network.
📍Individuality — scaffolding for difficult activities can be customized for individual learners.
The examples of MALL are educational apps, e-books and e-libraries, social media and many more. 

QR codes

QR codes (a quick response code) — a graphic image that contains information about the item to which it is attached.

There are QR codes for specific books, codes linking to relevant reviews, trailers and additional resources. Those will modernize your teaching, save your classroom time and update your students. Tutorials, graded information and helpful links presented in QR codes can optimize your teaching to a mixed ability classroom.

1. TL Presentation

Creative and inspired teachers keep looking for some new ways of delivering information to our students. Imagine, once instead of writing on the blackboard or displaying a textbook page, you can hand out the QR codes to the students and tell them that they would find a new wordlist there. That will help to keep them stay engaged into the self-research activity.

2. Reading

Libraries have endless uses for QR codes and you can use them in our lessons. Scannable book reviews, list of reading suggestions, biographies. Now your students can learn more about the book before they choose to read it.

3. Problem solving

Imagine that you have to complete a research about a famous person. You can create a bunch of QR codes leading to websites, YouTube videos, pictures, biography facts, your own opinion message, and even works of art connected to this person. You can dispose your QR codes everywhere in the classroom and organize a group work for completing this research using QR codes.

4. Dynamics

QR codes can be a really good way to combine technology with a bit of physical activity for problem solving tasks like quests and «looking for information» tasks.

5. Multimedia Content

A popular use for QR codes in education is to add multimedia content to hard copy pages. It is kind of like a stepping stone on our way to fully digitized textbooks and worksheets.

 

Augmented reality

Augmented reality (AR) — is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated content. AR can be defined as a system that incorporates three basic features: a combination of real and virtual worlds, real-time interaction, and accurate 3D registration of virtual and real objects.

Here is a nice Russian speaking service for creating augmented reality — Argin. It allows you to overlay an image in the form of photos, slideshows, videos, audio, text or 3D objects.

Also, I have created a study set on Quizlet and you can observe it following the QR code👇

Hope this information will be useful for you. Wish you luck!💜💪