in Methods, Technology and Assessment
Theories on cognition and learning have evolved in parallel with the emergence of new technologies. Today is the social context much more prevalent in the educational evolution, highlighting students collaborative construction of new knowledge, understanding and competence with their peers in addition to the interaction with the material.
Mobile technology is pushing instruction in the classroom in new ways. The HiST Mobile innovation process pushes the development of educational technologies and models, by constructing new prototypes, testing them in new teaching environments, and finally, evaluate learning effect by introducing new assessment models.
HiST Mobile dosent intend to overcome all barriers to innovation, as well as implementation of technological innovations, new learning methods, and new assessment models in classroom. Like anything that is new, there is going to be a learning curve. The challenge is maybe not as huge as YOU believe, if you join the mobile learning community, and spend some time on testing mobile technology and mobile learning methods developed through HiST Mobile before entering the classroom floor. The HiST mobile R&D team needs external feedback from teachers and organizations that may help us to improve our solutions through testing and validaton.
Keep in mind that innovation usually has many dimensions and many contributors. As this example illustrates, who is actually the Innovator ?