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Ann Franz

As Mobile Devices Multiply, Some Colleges Turn Away From Building Campus Apps - Technol... - 0 views

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  • College officials who favor mobile Web sites say that developing apps is getting too expensive. It can require creating and updating multiple versions of a single program, one for iPhones and another for Android phones, for instance. By contrast, a single mobile Web site can work with all kinds of devices, potentially lowering development costs.
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      Cost savings for your college if it is thinking of purchasing mobile apps, instead there is a new single mobile website that can lower the cost.
Samantha Zinth

New Technologies Changing College Education: Adult Students Demand Colleges Keep up Wit... - 0 views

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      Nearly two years old, but talks about mobile education, open content and electronic textbooks. The author predicts these technologies will be mainstream within two years. We're falling a little short of that timeline, but I think these technologies are coming.
Sheraden Bobot

Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction | Edutopia - 0 views

  • 83 percent of American adults now own cell phones and almost three-quarters (73 percent) send and receive text messages.
  • . Cellphone owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages a day -- that's more than 3200 messages per month. T
  • cellphones, particularly smart phones, are powerful mobile computing devices.
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  • f the cellphones have Internet access, students can use them to look up information online. Cellphones double as calculators and as cameras. And unlike iPads, e-readers, tablets, smart phones, laptops or desktop PCs, these devices are ubiquitous. Moreover, as the statistics indicate, text-messaging seems to be the preferred method of communication of teens.
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Kathy Borski

What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School? - 1 views

  • 20% of kindergarten through second graders said they owned cellphones. 29% of third through fifth graders do. 51% of middle schoolers and 56% of high schoolers do.
  • iPads. Interactive Whiteboards. Netbooks. Video games. Although educational technologies are being implemented more and more in classrooms across the country, we don't often stop and ask students - or their parents - what they think their technology needs are. But the newly-released Speak Up 2010 survey has done just that
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