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Leadership for Mobile Learning "Resources for exploring the hottest topic in educational technology via CoSN's Leadership for Mobile Learning Initiative" Created and curated by Lucy Gray

Last post topic was use of iPad in Classroom, iPad tutorials and goals for our iPad project in six Finnish upper secondary schools. There are lots of great examples of iPad use in school. In this post i present some fantastic iPad resources for teachers.

Staff development, assessment, school improvement ect..

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) attempts to the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. As the United States continues to compete in a global economy that demands innovation, P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation).

Thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have today-and Douglas Rushkoff gives us great guidelines for doing that thinking. Read this before and after you Tweet, Facebook, email or YouTube. -Howard Rheingold

This pilot will provide participants with an iPad and ongoing professional development, to enable teachers to explore, discover and develop ways in which mobile devices (iPads, iPods, iPhones, etc.) can be used to engage learners and maximize student achievement.

Variety of rubrics for different aspects of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. Andrew church

"The Virginia Department of Education is phasing in the second wave of a pilot program that uses Apple's iPad tablet computers as the centerpiece of a social studies curriculum that blends online and face-to-face learning."