Monday, July 30, 2012
Mobile Learning: How Technology is Transforming Education Around the Globe
Mobile Learning and technology in the classroom may just be the game-changer that gives students around the world equal access to learning. This week on Netflix I watched “Waiting for Superman,” a documentary that follows the lives of several American students that strive to be accepted into charter schools.
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
How to choose a mobile device for mLearning purposes
Choosing the best (smart)phone or tablet for mobile learning can be quite a challenge. It also depends on what you want to do with it and how easy you can get used to technology. The amount of features you want to use will also allow you to purchase a low or high cost smartphone or mobile device.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Mobile Learning at New Canaan High School
These are just a handful of the pictures we took during 15 minutes of a typical day's lunch at New Canaan High School. Kids are using their devices... but HOW are they using their devices? Even though 73% of our students have an app-ready device, only 29% have an ereading app on that device. In almost every class, when asked to input a URL to the mobile library catalog app, a students will say, "I don't have that two-dot thing on my keyboard." (meaning a colon). This is part of what is required for meaningful 21st century education. Without a robust instructional program that embeds communication (email at least, and unrestricted access to mainstream social media at best), collaboration (Google Apps) and mobile instruction (BYOD at least and 1:1+BYOD at best) into the core curriculum, schools are not preparing students for the century they already live in - not the one of the future - the one we inhabit now.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
8 Tools to Create an Irresistible Ebook
Find here 8 Tools to Create an Irresistible Ebook .
1. Scrivener
2. Evernote
3. 99Designs
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
WEBINAR - Leadership for Mobile Learning
Preview the webinar "Leadership for Mobile Learning" with Lucy Gray, Project Director for the Consortium for School Networking’s Leadership for Mobile Learning initiative. To assist here ...
WEBINAR - Mobile Phones in Education Part II
Preview the webinar "AUP and ePolicy Protection" with Gail Palumbo, host and presenter in the edWeb.net community. To assist here ...
Friday, July 20, 2012
The best 40 augmented reality applications
Las mejores 40 aplicaciones de realidad aumentada existentes actualmente.
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CamScanner - Phone PDF Creator
Turn phone to document scanner
I scan newspapers articles to keep as file and share it on the internet and scan personal docs to my own records. It as simplify my everyday tasks! — Zed Ruger
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iPad Basics – How To Take an iPad Screenshot
This is another in our occasional iPad Basics tips series – so if you’re a veteran iPad user you’ll want to skip this as you’re very likely to already know this stuff. Read more here ...
Mobile Collaborative Informal Learning Design: Study of collaborative effectiveness using Activity Theory
Smart Mobile Devices (SMD) are there for many years but using them as learning tools started to emerge as new research area. The trend to merge collaborative learning methodology by using mobile devices in informal context is important for implementation of Learner Centric Learning (LCL). Read more here ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
Practical tips and tutorials about using web2.0 tools and mobile apps in education .The best free web, adnroid, smartphone,iPhone, and samsung applications to help you better enhance your mobile learning.
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Soundgecko - transform Web URL in MP3 files
Listen to any article on go... Transforming Web text articles in MP3 files with Soundgecko, for free.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
21 Reasons Technology Works for Education
Survey sheds new light on how students, parents and teachers view the role of technology in schools.
If you’re an educator or someone who works in the nation’s K–12 system, you’re probably familiar with the word no: No, we don’t have enough money for supplies. No, we can’t afford new computers for the science lab. Yes, we believe in the power of technology. We just can’t afford it. No way. No how.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Using basic mobile phones for ESOL learners
This article has been written by Aleks Palanac who works as an ESOL Resources Specialist for the British Council in addition to having teaching commitments with the Workers' Educational Association and the University of Leicester. Her main interest lies in how to marry new technologies with language teaching in order to enhance the digital literacy of ESOL learners.
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Designing mlearning - Book Review – Chapter 4
A brief synopsis of each chapter of ‘Designing mlearning‘,..
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EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF MLEARNING IN EMERGING MARKETS
It is estimated that by 2020, every single person in Africa will own a mobile phone. A 2011 country census revealed that households in India were more likely to own a mobile phone than a toilet: 59% have mobile phones compared to 47% who have toilets.
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Mobile Phone Literacy – Empowering Women and Girls
Identification of factors for effectiveness and scaling up good practices
The Mobile Phone Literacy project was launched on 26 May 2011 on the occasion of the visit to UNESCO of Ms. Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State. It is to be implemented within the framework of the UNLD Fund and the Global Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s education – "Better Life Better Future: Quality Education for Girls and Women".
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International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)
The iJIM journal aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of interactive mobile technologies.
Vol 6, No 3 (2012)
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
A Day in the Life of an iPad Teacher
Study Finds Benefits In Use of iPad As Educational Tool
Longfield Academy in Kent, England is a recently built school covering years 7 through 13 (ages 11 to 18). At Longfield, they strive to provide a cutting edge learning experience incorporating a high level of technology integration in the curriculum.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Is email and mobile learning (mLearning) making students dumb?
Here is an interesting question: Is access to the Internet, mLearning, and email making students dumb?
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How the iPad Can Transform Classroom Learning
The micro-computer revolution of the 80's radically improved how teachers and schools carry on the business of learning. We now have iPads in classrooms that will not only improve it, but it has the potential to change the business of learning in schools. The question is, "Are teachers ready to adjust their teaching for this new learning revolution?"
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Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom
If I had thirty iPads in my class, what would I do with them? How would I use them to help my students learn better and help me teach better? Perhaps a better question is what would I do with them that I could not do with other tools that are available and cheaper? Certainly iPads are cheaper than computers, desktop or laptop, and they are more mobile.
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Friday, July 6, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Learning Everywhere
In Learning Everywhere, Chad Udell, a seasoned expert on mobile learning, demystifies the many choices involved in developing mobile learning content, and provides real-world experience on how to get down to the business of creating mobile learning.
http://floatlearning.com/learning-everywhere/
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