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This fascinating presentation by Benedict Evans shares some staggering charts, interesting factoids, and all manner of statistics about mobile learning, mobile browsing, and mobile everything.

"You might be one of the teachers who is excited about the possibilities or apprehensive and fearful of the seemingly overwhelming task in front of you how to manage your classroom, students and the devices AND at the same time use them to improve student learning. What are some educational models to consider when implementing iPads in the classroom? How do you handle classroom management?"

Steve Wheeler's slides from an invited speech given to the Technology in Higher Education Conference, National Convention Centre, Doha, Qatar. 16 April, 2013.

If you want to know where to get started with Film learning with Educators and young people, start with Quickclass. It's emerged as one of the front-running virtual Film learning environments.

If you want to know where to get started with Film learning with Educators and young people, start with Quickclass. It's emerged as one of the front-running virtual Film learning environments.

Quickclass is mobile-first Learning Management System which enhances all existing film education programs, for all institutions and learners of all ages.

Quickclass is mobile-first Learning Management System which enhances all existing film education programs, for all institutions and learners of all ages.

JESS3's mission is simple: to organize and beautify information to make it more accessible. In this presentation, JESS3 co-founder and President, Leslie Bradshaw, talks through how brands are beginning to leverage data visualization to impact the knowledge that drives the world's conversations.

Brendan O'Keefe shares this Slidesahre presentation containing "Some useful information for educators interested in using Augmented Reality for teaching and learning." The presentation includes some examples of AR to scan with Layar.

"Current thinking (August 2012) around a web literacies framework by Doug Belshaw, Badges & Skills Lead for the Mozilla Foundation."

Schools are needing increasing amounts of expensive educational technology at a time when budgets are shrinking. Many have started to explore BYOD policies - Bring Your Own Device - as a practical solution to integrate cost effective technology into their educational programs. With the convergence of widespread broadband and the growth of powerful, platform independent web based tools BYOD has finally arrived as an effective educational alternative to other plans that require expensive purchasing and maintenance. Viewed within a realistic perspective of both its benefits and limitations BYOD can provide a workable solution for the many schools seeking to upgrade their educational technology.