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This article presents a case to make mobile learning theory a subset or offshoot of connectivism. Mobile technologies have taken over classrooms and social situations and could carry their own theories of learning.

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

This article is a good resource for mobile apps that can be applied to many subjects and content areas. There are writing, collaboration, blogging, screen-capturing, and LMS integration apps that teachers can use for their classroom.

In this Q&A podcast, I speak with Sarah Gilbert, who facilitates ATD's Essentials of Mobile Development Using Adobe Captivate® and Mobile Learning Certificate. Sarah Gilbert specializes in training strategy, design, and development at meLearning Solutions. In her PHII Academy director role at the Task Force for Global Health, she leads a team to create global solutions for public health informatics training challenges.

Mobile Learning Proves to Benefit At-Risk Students As we explore the potential of mobile learning, especially as it relates to reaching out to disenfranchised students, the most recent results from Project K-Nect seem that much more relevant.

The authors of the paper postulate that traditional learning theories do not adequately cover the use of mobile technologies, particularly phones in a learning context. This paper looks at a class of native Arabic speaking students learning English as a second language through the use of mobile phones and facebook. They conclude that in this context, connectivism fully accounts for the interactions that their students naturally gravitated towards when interacting in english thus furthering their study of interest.

The Mobile Learning infoKit is a developing resource from JISC infoNet launched at ALT-C 2011 alongside the new JISC publication Emerging Practice in a Digital Age

Ideas of how to engage in mobile learning

This article tracks current trends that are happening with mobile apps in education. Trends such as HTML5 adoption, analytics, multi-screen, bite-sized learning, and gamification are covered briefly, but this gives readers an idea of where mLearning is moving.

Informative blog about what is happening in the mobile learning community.

This year, Microsoft has made Office available for the iPad, iPhone, a preview available for Android, and even dropped the price to free. Meanwhile, the incumbent, Google Drive and its associated apps, have been building out features. Today, we compare the two on mobile.

This blog talks about Larry Liu, who has successfully implemented Facebook into his class as well as mobile technology.

This article explore the problems and innovative solutions for ELLstudents.  

There were many great project ideas on this side but to get to the one I want you to look at scroll down to "Social Mobility" audio blogging. The group audio blogging activity had the student compare and then post their results using a VoiceThread. They were able to combine visual and recorded media and they had to think carefully about what they wanted to record.

July 25, 2016 One of the most fascinating things about running a service like edshelf is seeing trends in search behaviors. Searches for iPad and iPhone apps continue to dominate, though searches for Google Chromebook apps are rising faster than any other platform. Here are some notable Google Chrome apps used by fellow educators.