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If you think that iPods are used just for listening to music, you obviously haven't been keeping up with the latest technology. The Apple-developed music player now features all kinds of accessories to help you study better, and now other companies are in a rush to get their designs in sync with the iPod. Pre-teens, college kids and even adults are taking advantage of the educational benefits an iPod affords them. From downloadable podcasts to just-for-iPod study guides and applications, learning on the go has never been easier. To find out about the many different ways you can transform your iPod into a learning device, check out our list below.

The New Learning Institute delivers engaging, personalized, project-based digital media programs to young people and educators. We work in classrooms, after-school centers, museums, and cultural institutions, or wherever learning takes place. Using the latest mobile technologies and digital media practices and tools, we help young people explore their interests, direct their own learning, and better prepare themselves for living and working in the 21st century.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments.

Welcome to the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) weekly report on news from the previous week and findings of interest related to mobile learning.

lexicon to understand mobile learning

This could be used in a Wordle or Glogster page

Living in a Digital Age provides guidelines: Technological change in education, particularly in how our students receive, interact with and respond to the learning experience means we are facing the largest transformation that the teaching profession has ever seen. Teachers, students and parents are increasingly using digital technologies to teach, learn and communicate, challenging the traditional concept of a school. Schools and early childhood settings are now broader than the walls of a classroom. Schools need to assist students to develop the skills required for critical evaluation, online collaboration and communication and behaviours which support the safe, responsible and ethical use of digital technology - essential to participating in life and work in the 21st century. The following critical advice is the result of DEECD research projects carried out over the past three years by Victorian teachers participating in trials and/or pilots within the Innovation and Next Practice Division. The advice should be considered when using social media tools.

Online Resources for Parents & Educators. Learn how to be a better parent, teacher or caregiver to the "digital natives" in your life and gain the knowledge and skills for understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world. Learn how to be a better parent, teacher or caregiver to the "digital natives" in your life and gain the knowledge and skills for understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world.

Whether that's through physical or virtual exchanges, and whether it's in order learn foreign languages, solve global issues, collaborate on new media projects, or extend professional development opportunities to teachers (to name just a few), the goal is the same: Get U.S. schools linked with the world so that kids can foster global understanding, communicate with different cultures and countries, and learn in a way that's exciting and meaningful.

intro to 21st C learning skills

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Mimi Ito of the University of California, Irvine, describes how new media practices are transforming the ways that young people interact, play, collaborate and learn outside of school.

Excellent booklet

Good ideas for ed tech workshops

Explains how to effectively manage a student's digital footprint without limiting their learning opportunities. Some useful ideas for policies.

The New Tech model provides an instructional approach centered on project-based learning, a culture that empowers students and teachers, and integrated technology in the classroom.

So what does a mobile devices environment look like? How will the students and teachers react? Is it the right direction to go? Five steps to keep in mind as we implement the Connected Learning Community Initiative - an education, not technologies initiative.

Do you want to provide your classroom with a global challenge? Do you want to connect with other teachers and learners to investigate solutions to real 21st Century problems and in doing so engage with the curriculum in powerful authentic ways?

Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It's a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms.

The director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program encourages parents to be open minded and willing to learn from their kids.