TEACHx 2021

What do educators need to know about pedagogical strategies with applications (apps)? "Today, 37 percent of U.S. adults say they mostly use a smartphone when accessing the internet" (Anderson, 2019). It is important to highlight to understand the potential of mobile and ubiquitous communication. How did those technological events merge into our culture and invite us to think over education? We reflect on the current pedagogical models, including continuous and seamless learning, collaborative learning, with mobile and hypermediatic curricula, supported by interactivity and diversity. Hypermobility (Santaella, 2007) is the union of physical space, mobile connection, and digital information. Thus, pedagogy for hypermobility reflects upon teaching in movement and connection in education, especially with a focus on pedagogical processes without walls, where education has no borders. The proposal is to create an environment of mobile teaching-learning, using apps as a pedagogic strategy: peer communities, authorship, interactive learning, educational assessment, and engaging the class in production of content in the age of connectivity and hypermobility. Teachers are rethinking a proper pedagogy for contemporary society, especially in remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Come learn strategies to improve your online classroom.