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m-Learning e-Book "New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher educatio... - 2 views

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    A free e-book, New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Mobile Learning in Higher Education, is available for free download through the University of Wollongong's Research Online. This book provides examples of m-learning implementation and concludes with some recommended design principles for m-learning. For anyone involved in m-learning, this is a worthwhile read.
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Project Tomorrow: The New 3 E's of Education: - 9 views

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    ""The New 3 E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged and Empowered - How Today's Students are Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning""
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GetJar, Snac and Other Firms Selling Apps for Simple Phones - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Go a Not-So Smartphone? Good news may be ahead.
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TheWesternStar.com: Local | Text ed; Teacher integrating cellphones as another method o... - 1 views

  • The goal is to present a new way to communicate. The goal for myself as an educator is to engage students a little bit more.”
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Many teens send 100-plus texts a day, survey says - CNN.com - 1 views

  • As most parents of adolescents know all too well, text messaging has become the preferred method of communication for American teenagers, with one in three teens sending more than 100 texts a day, a new survey says.
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Texting in school? Not quite, but school district adjusting cell phone policy... - 0 views

  • The Collier County School Board recently voted to change the student code of conduct regarding cell phones and, in the process, expanded the code to allow schools to petition to allow students to use their phones in the classroom — to some exte
  • The Collier County School Board recently voted to change the student code of conduct regarding cell phones and, in the process, expanded the code to allow schools to petition to allow students to use their phones in the classroom — to some extent.
  • “There are many educational things that you can use phones to do. The principals want to use the phone as an educational tool in the classroom.”
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  • “A phone is just not a phone anymore,” he said.
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The Daily Maverick :: Mobile books the South African way - 0 views

  • Forget Amazon’s Kindle or the iPad, here's a novel project that’s making literacy fun and could just change the way teen literature is published in Africa.
  • Shuttleworth Fellow Steve Vosloo believes that ordinary mobile phones in townships are the iPads and iPhones of Africa. Vosloo is the brains behind an ingenious project, Mobile for Literacy, that gets teenagers in townships to read more by working  with technologies they already know and love to use
  • Turns out the smartest technologies aren’t the newest gadgets or devices such as the Kindle or iPad. On the contrary, in Africa they’re clever ideas that work with existing devices to change the world for the better.
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    Mobile for Literacy project
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YouTube - TEDxSoweto - Steve Vosloo - Literacy in the Age of Participation - 2 views

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    Mobile for Literacy project South Africa
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ICT - Ringing the changes - Features - TES Connect - 6 views

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    "Traditionally regarded as a classroom menace, mobile phones are now being recognised as a learning aid with immense potential,"
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Swype Reinvents Typing on Touch-Screen Phones - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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    "Phone Software Takes the Taps Out of Typing"
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