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Blog: Spectrum Is Devoted To Documenting Any and All Topics Relating To Mobile Learning, Mobile Library Services, and Mobile Technologies.

Pew Research indicates poor and drop outs trend towards cell phones for information. (No surprise).  

What are instructional design considerations to keep in mind when desiging mobile learning for pay-as-you-go learning populations?  What are accessible m-learning activities for these learners?

Clearly, designers should strive to create resources that are as easy to access and use on a cell phone platform as they are on a laptop if they hope to reach these populations. Regarding the high school dropouts: I'm inclined to think there is more going on here than just money issues. There might be a perception that cell phones are "cool" while using a laptop is nerdy and bookish.

ISTE description of Soloway/Norris preso on Mobile Learning.

Main points from ISTE 10 conference session by Elliott Soloway and Cathie Norris's entitled: "From Add-on Technology to Essential Technology: Constructing 1-to-1 Aware Curriculum".  Mobile learning.

Augmented Reality examples - both books and discussion of mobile device-based AR. RWW.

Here is the entire blog on Twitter for Dummies. Interesting section in Parts 5 and 6.

Learn more about Twitter-talk here. Wondering about the @, #, and retweeting? This page explains it in an entertaining way. It's called Twitter for Dummies part 4. There are other parts as well.

Here is a blog resource on using cell phones with students. The author has a book on the subject published though ISTE. There are some very interesting posts.

Cool Cat Teacher - Vicki Davis, created this Slide share for a presentation on back channeling. It explains more what it is and gives some ideas on how to use it in the classroom.

Great example of touchscreen mobile algebra interactive learning solution.

For those of you wanting a online meeting spot other than Adobe Classroom, WizIQ is a great substitute. As Distant Learning students you don't always want to request a classroom, and in this case when you have group projects, this is a great tool. It has many of the same options that Adobe Classroom has, not as pretty, but it does the job. Check it our

For all you math teachers and parents, MathBoard may help your student learn to love math. MathBoard is appropriate for all ages from kindergarten (with simple addition and subtraction problems) to elementary school, where learning multiplication and division can be a challenge. You can control the range of numbers you want to work with, the amount of questions you want to answer and length of time allowed per quiz. Kids will likely love it. Even if this were merely a calculator, students would be lining up to play with it because it's on an iPad. The fact that it comes through on its promise makes it all the more useful. The random problem generator is particularly handy for creating quizzes. Gone are the days of picking through or creating your own problems and pasting them into a quiz. MathBoard does all of this for up to 250 problems per quiz. Can I use it in my classroom? This tool is designed specifically for classroom use. Students can use it to work on new math techniques, and teachers can use it to generate homework and quizzes. It's a perfect match. I'm providing a link to a youtube demo above. Please click on it and judge for yourself.