1. My Mobile ‘Education on the move’
Final Conference
London - Friday, June 22
Ben Bachmair
Mobile portfolios as learning resources for at-risk
learners
Em. Professor University of Kassel, Germany
Visiting Professor Institute of Education, University of London

2. A portfolio comprises artefacts which result from, or
emerge through the process of learning.
For a mobile portfolio the functionality of the mobile
phone are used for producing artefacts.
To frame mobile activities and to support reflection, the
mobile portfolio tends to take the form of a photo report
of the teaching and learning process.
Students as well as the facilitator take photos - casually or
deliberately
for example of key words (from the board), of a
presentation, of a screen or a book, of documentation of
their own learning in informal contexts, of social activities
of the learners or of impressions of the social climate etc.
In addition to photos, sound records or videos are possible.

3. Example for
(a) artefacts
(b) meta-level of reflection
The definition of a m-portfolio for reluctant facilitators
in a Grundtvig project for adult at-risk learners

4. Kalmar conference workbook
of a lecturer

13. Kalmar Life Diary

14. Portfolio of a ‘facilitator’ and students of a college
at the beginning of the term in media studies
for NEETs (no education, employment, training)
Scenario
- Investigation of the college buildings and environment
with the personal mobile; group work;
- Becoming familiar with the presentation software
Prezi, teacher guided instruction + group work;
- Bringing images from at home into the college;
- 1 photo on a t-shirt;
- Presentation of group work with Prezi;

15. Meta-level of reflection, a leading task of the facilitators/
educationalist/ teacher
disciplined

16. Discovering the habitus of learning
Self-representatio n

17. Target orientation

18. Playing + self-representation

19. Prezi-version or the students’ portfolio,
a summary of 2 days:
• investigation of the college,
• framing the college with everyday life,
• Becoming familiar with the new software Prezi
• Self-presentation within a group by means of the
Prezi presentation

20. Extract from the Prezi presentation of group 2:
the media experts

22. Manga expert

23. T-shirt:
the experts for fine art (still life) within the
context of the college

26. Scenario: the bicycle workshop
To combine different local context of learning.
Migrants of the 1. generation, integration course.
- 2 photos as example from a girls’ work book

27. The life diary
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