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For the past 3 years, UNESCO has been working to provide advice and guidance to governments and other stakeholders seeking to leverage increasingly ubiquitous and affordable mobile technologies for learning. UNESCO has conducted research in a number of areas, such as mobile reading, mobile learning policies, and promoting gender equality with ICTs. The resulting publications describe the unique educational advantages of mobile technology and articulate strategies to build policy environments in which these advantages can take root and grow.

Mobile Learning in Primary and Secondary science Education

Today's children were born and raised in a world of digital convenience. Apple has long realized the potential of the pre-teen set and has targeted them with iPads, learning apps, smart devices, and other mobile tech to meet their educational and developmental needs. It gives information about the usage of kids mobile devices in USA, the percentage of using mobile tech in education and its result in USA again. It is very interesting and surprisin when you look at the statistics...

An impressive article about the growing trends and significance of mobile learning. Here are some highlights: "Since this technology is mobile, students turn "nomad,"carrying conversations and thinking across campus spaces." "The socializing powers of mobility and wirelessness could expand the drive into collaboration."

You can follow this webside for the news about mobile tech in education. They sent newsletters to you regularly, Float delivers improved employee performance by implementing expert mobile learning via custom solutions and consulting services.

I could not reach my tweets under our hashtag on Twitter. :( Therefore, I wanted to share two sources for this week's discussion about mobile learning. This one is a research study for pre-service math teachers who utilize mobile learning through IPADs. It has quite promising and positive results!

MIT Center for Mobile Learning, in colloboration with the MIT Media Lab encourages teachers and academic faculty to develop their own mobile apps to facilitate in education.

A short yet well curated list of most commonly used educational social networking sites.

They offer more than 300 Harvard classes in several formats online to deliver convenient Harvard lectures to your computer or mobile device. Most of our distance education courses are offered in our 15-week fall or spring semester.

I've been facilitating the extension program since my undergrad years which is beyond useful, to me. We'll also cover some aspects of it in our presentation. Thanks for sharing, İpek!

The presentation mentions the main cornerstones and flow of m-learning in higher education in detail.

Differences between mobile learning and e learning

The author of this article tries to answer why so many teachers are resistant to mobile devices in their classrooms although their students tend to believe that smartphones and laptops can assist their learning. After reading the text, I realized how social attitude toward mobile learning can be a decisive factor in terms of its integration into education.

An open-source technology education movement that partners with educators in schools and learning centers to deliver courses to young people. Aim of this movement is to encourage students to work together as teams to find real issues they care about and learn to build a mobile, web or social app to solve them which makes it good in that it helps learners to be productive.

"Forget devices, the future of education technology is all about the cloud and anywhere access. In the future, teaching and learning is going to be social", says Matt Britland... "iPads and other mobile technology are the 'now'. Although, they will play a part in the future, four years ago the iPad didn't even exist. We don't know what will be the current technology in another four. Perhaps it will be wearable devices such as Google Glass..."

I have never thought to use angry birds for educatonal purposes but it will be great to teach about projectile motion.

Here's a list of applications for science education. Please install iCell, Solar explorer lite, and electric box on your mobile phones and tablets. We'll try them together, tomorrow.

MoLeNET was a unique collaborative approach to introducing and supporting mobile learning in education and training via supported shared cost mobile learning projects. Collaborative approach is related to my interest. It provided technical and pedagogic advice and support, materials development, continuing professional development, mentoring, facilitation of peer-to-peer support, networking and resource sharing, research and evaluation.

There is a project of UNESCO and Nokia which conducted in four different countries.