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"The internet is awash with exciting and innovative tools, and your students have grown up immersed in this world - get in on the act. The digital revolution has given us instant communication and easy global connectedness, with mobile technology in particular growing at warp speed: in 2013, there are almost as many mobile phone contracts as there are people in the world. This digital transformation has produced some extraordinary online tools for flexible education, which enhance students' learning and promise innovative pedagogy for teachers. However, they can also be daunting and challenging for educators. It is clear that teachers cannot ignore these tools, which go far beyond just Facebook and Twitter. Educators are now dealing with Generation Z - students born after 1995 who have hardly known a world without social media and have always lived a life measured in bits and bytes. Most have access to iPads and smartphones as well as textbooks and, therefore, the massive resource of the internet."

Nik Peachey's post that discusses how you can evaluate apps. He clearly sets out the criteria for evaluating authentic apps that would be for use in educational settings.

"f the promise of mobile technology in classrooms has been to equalize opportunities for all students through access to the internet, that potential has yet to be realized. The reality is that while some teachers have found powerful ways to use mobile devices - both those owned by students and those purchased by the school - teachers at schools in very low-income areas are often battling a persistent student culture of disengagement. Many students have learning gaps that make it hard for them to stay interested in grade level materials and little desire to be in school at all. "

Short codes are mobile numbers that are significantly shorter than regular mobile numbers (usually 5 digits) which are used for SMS, MMS and Interactive Voice Services. The idea behind short codes is to make them easy to remember.Short Codes have proven to be a huge marketing success over the past few years thanks to their quality, comfortableness and ability to attract a direct response.Short codes are often associated with automated services. An automated program can handle the response and typically requires the sender to start the message with a command word or prefix

Interesting article from the Guardian. "The effect of banning mobiles was the equivalent of an extra week's schooling over the academic year, according to the research. It also found that the ban had a greater positive impact on students with special education needs and those eligible for free school meals."

QR codes are two-dimensional bar codes that can contain any alphanumeric text and that often feature URLs that direct users to sites where they can learn about an object or place (a practice known as "mobile tagging"). Decoding software on tools such as camera phones interprets the codes, which are increasingly found in places such as product labels, billboards, and buildings, inviting passers-by to pull out their mobile phones and uncover the encoded information

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A neat set of videos from the ABC looking at the Digital World, Mobile and portable devices, New ways to watch TV, Podcasting and Social Media.

Red Foundry build mobile apps. Basic features for free. Put your content on the iPhone/iPod.

Transform static slide shows into voice enhanced video presentations available with mobile or desktop online web access. Free for personal use.

New functionality for working in Google docs on mobile devices.

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Makes me wonder what the other dozen recommendations are.

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