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in title, tags, annotations or urlEducation: Competition vs Collaboration - 1 views
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In a time where much of the debate around education is linked to performance on national and international assessments such as PISA, TIMMS, PIRLS and in Australia, NAPLAN combined with calls for market-driven reforms there is a danger that a climate of competition between schools and systems will grow.
Education Week: Students Turn Their Cellphones On for Classroom Lessons - 0 views
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New educational uses of cellphones are challenging the "turned off and out of sight" rules that many districts have adopted for student cellphones on campus.
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A growing number of teachers, carefully navigating district policies and addressing their own concerns, are having students use their personal cellphones to make podcasts, take field notes, and organize their schedules and homework
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"In our district, especially at high school, students have a cellphone on them at all times, just like a pencil—it's an underused too
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Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.
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Some critics already are denouncing the effort as a blatantly self-serving maneuver to break into the big educational market. But proponents of selling cellphones to schools counter that they are simply making the same kind of pitch that the computer industry has been profitably making to educators since the 1980s.
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“This is a device kids have, it’s a device they are familiar with and want to take advantage of,” said Shawn Gross, director of Digital Millennial Consulting, which received a $1 million grant from Qualcomm to conduct the research.
2009 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Mobiles - 0 views
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Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less The unprecedented evolution of mobiles continues to generate great interest. The idea of a single portable device that can make phone calls, take pictures, record audio and video, store data, music, and movies, and interact with the Internet — all of it — has become so interwoven into our lifestyles that it is now surprising to learn that someone does not carry one. As new devices continue to enter the market, new features and new capabilities are appearing at an accelerated pace. One recent feature — the ability to run third-party applications — represents a fundamental change in the way we regard mobiles and opens the door to myriad uses for education, entertainment, productivity, and social interaction.
Virtual Field Trips - Guide - 7 views
Wolfram education apps raise teaching dilemma | Deep Tech - CNET News - 6 views
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Wolfram Research, a software company with deep mathematical and scientific expertise, is expanding to the broad education market with a range of mobile apps
The distraction trope « BuzzMachine - 1 views
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is change in behavior came mainly because we got over the newness of browsing and had other, more important things to do and we learned how to prioritize our time again.
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the benefits of printing were almost eclipsed by complaints about increased output: swarms of new books were glutting the market and once venerated authors were being neglected.
10 Fantastic Creative Multi-Media & Video Applications | Design Marketing Advertising Free Tips - 2 views
10 Things I Hate About You (As a Blogger) | Social Media Explorer - 1 views
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