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Set up quiz games that students can play using clickers or by texting their answer from a cell phone

This is an example of an instructional game type of software. This is a fun and entertaining educational game that students can play on their mobile device or tablet. Teachers can search for pre-made Kahoot games (in math) or make their own. Students are engaged and points add up to show a leader board and the score of each student to introduce some competition.

Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

Nearpod is a tool that enables teachers to use their devices to manage content on students' devices. It combines presentations, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools, allowing teachers to embed polls, quizzes and drawings, as well as video and other content, into slides in Nearpod.

This article is a collection of recent audience response systems that can be used in the classroom. The author lists the resource along with a brief description. The systems that are listed are free and work on many devices.

Fun and quirky way to take, edit and share photographs with mobile devices.

This tool works with iOS devices and allows the user to track activity, food and sleep.

Article examines parents' attitudes towards mobile devices as learning tools.

Intuitive by design, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch also come with assistive features that allow people with disabilities to experience the fun and function of iOS. With these innovative technologies built right in, iOS devices become powerful and affordable assistive devices.

Ask yourself what would happen if anyone could edit video, anywhere, with any mobile device, using any media on the web and finally publish the result to any device or website. Join us in starting this creative revolution!

This site covers a variety of technologies, devices, and strategies that assist students with cognitive disabilities, especially academic challenges.

This blog post describes Quizlet Live feature in Quizlet. Quizlet live allows for competition among students or groups of students as long as each student or group has a device.

This Common Sense Media article suggests some of the IOS or Android built-in accessibility features parents and teachers could be using with their special needs children.

Discovery Education Techbook™ is a digital textbook replacement that provides unrivaled content that helps teachers transition to the exciting world of digital resources. Techbook™ ignites curiosity and enhances learning via a powerful, simple-to-use program that substantially lowers district costs and can be used across any device or platform.

A great app for iOS devices that allows teachers to set up grade books. I use it to grade homework for completion simply by walking around the room with my ipad.

This article from Minnesota State University talks about the half life of information and how today information is growing and doubling at such a fast rate that no one can be as knowledgeable in there field as they were 50 years ago. By using connectivity it allows people to better keep up in there knowledge field.

This is a really interesting article. I never thought about it, but it is a compelling notion that one person cannot be an expert at anything any longer, simply because everyone can be an expert with a device in their hands.

This article gives you the standard overview of connectivism; however, the point about knowledge growing as more nodes are established is a great point. I would agree with Chris Denny. Can anyone (sometimes even the teacher) be the expert any longer without prescribing to connectivist theory?

This journal article dives into the three biggest reservoirs of information based on the principles of connectivism: social networks, online classrooms, and virtual reality learning platforms. The author identifies some of these specific resources and addresses how they relate to connectivism.

I like this article. I like that the author breaks down the reservoirs of information in a graphic. I also like that the author talks about different social media that aren't as common or well-known. The examples of uses of podcasts, virtual learning and mobile devices are interesting in that I never considered using Nintendo DS in that manner.

Superintendents are starting to realize the power of technology and how it can change things like using Voxer instead of walkie-talkies to connect to the network of his colleagues. This article talks about the use of technology and how a school district started to see the benefits after integrating one-to-one devices in their school. This specific school began making a more conscious effort to strategically integrate technology throughout the schools to prepare students for the future.