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kscharaldi

Eleven new ed-tech services to watch | News | eClassroom News - 4 views

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    day in the life of digital educator
Lucy Gray

Overview | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 2 views

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    Three-quarters of AP and NWP teachers say that the internet  and digital search tools have had a "mostly positive" impact on their students' research habits, but 87% say these technologies are creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans" and 64% say today's digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically."
Hugo Domingos

24 benefits of mobile learning | - 1 views

  • Convenience and flexibility: mobile learning can be accessed anywhere
  • mobile learning enables training to be ‘situated rather than simulated
  • always-available nature of mobile learning
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  • mobile learning can happen during ‘dead time’,
  • Fits many different learning styles:
  • Improves social learning
  • means to enable interaction between peers and tutors using mobile devices.
  • he voice recorder on many mobile devices enables effortless and instantaneous recording of thoughts and opinions.
  • collecting portfolio evidence via audio, still or video camera.
  • mobile devices offer timely access to information,
  • nables forgotten or mistakenly remembered information to be speedily accessed and redressed.
  • accessed prior to meetings or beginning tasks, improves learners’ confidence in their skills.
  • so avoids cognitive overload.
  • quick-fire knowledge or mobile assessments/quizzes, in between other kinds of training activities,
  • enable trainers to determine learners’ level of knowledge and plan their sessions accordingly.
  • be contextualised to the exact spot in a workplace it makes reference to.
  • nd then synchronised when a wireless connection is available again.
  • mobile learning is cheaper than booking the resources required for face-to-face training
  • use of touch screens and other more direct input devices removes a layer of interactivity,
  • ith GPS and the use of QR codes learning can become specific to a location or a real life QR code marker
  • own personal device they are more likely to engage with the learning
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    the 24 benefits of mobile learning to convince you to start thinking about your future mobile solutions (if you haven't started already that is!)
hlarson728

Mobile learning for quality education and social inclusion - 0 views

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    12/2010: "The key objective of this policy brief is to sum up the ways in which mobile-supported learning can contribute to the global commitment to provide quality education for children, youth and adults, as expressed in the goals of Education For All (EFA). Consequently, the brief is particularly concerned with issues of equitable access to education, quality of learning resources, literacy, numeracy, essential life skills and lifelong learning. Opportunities for girls and women are highlighted. Suggestions and recommendations are made regarding strategies for the introduction and sustainability of mobile learning." Author: Agnes Kukulska-Hulme
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