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Lucy Gray

Budget-Friendly Tablets for School | PCMag.com - 0 views

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    "LAPTOPSDESKTOPSTABLETSPHONESSOFTWARECAMERASHDTVSPRINTERSMORE  Top SearchesOnline BackupWindows 8AndroidiPad TrendingiPhone 5CDMA vs GSMWin 8SpORts Headphones HomeProduct GuidesLaptops & NotebooksTabletsBudget-Friendly Tablets fOR School Budget-Friendly Tablets fOR School Can't cough up the half-grand to tote a new iPad around campus this semester? These six very capable Android tablets come at a fraction of the price. By Eugene Kim August 22, 2012 0 CommentsGoogle 1 Share 29 Tweet 18 Submit 9230 Share 0 Pin It 0 EmailPrint It's that dreadful time of year again. Your beach tan is slowly fading and the warm days of carefree existence are quickly slipping away-it's time to get back into the school groove. A shiny tablet, like the New Apple iPad, might help cure those back-to-school blues, but that $500 entry price likely has your student checking account shuddering in fear. The thing is, though, you can get a very capable tablet that lets you watch videos, hit Facebook and Twitter, read books (even textbooks!), and do much mORe, fOR less than half the price of an iPad. The first question is: Do you even need a tablet? The shORt answer is probably not. If your intentions are strictly academic, which, ahem, I'm sure they are, then a simple laptop should do you fine. Tablets lack physical keyboards, have relatively small screens, aren't very good at multitasking, and have limited printer suppORt-all crucial needs fOR the budding scholar. But there's mORe to school than academics. In between all those carbonated beverages, you'll want to unwind with your favORite TV shows, movies, music, and games-and that's exactly where tablets excel. They're lightweight, easy to use, fast and responsive, and perfect fOR media consumption. Plus, there's an ever-growing selection of apps at your disposal to help your tablet do even mORe. There are plenty of cheapo tablets out there, with shoddy builds, aging hardware, and outdated software, but there are also some excellent bar
Sasha Thackaberry

Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy (Andragogy, Heutagogy) of Mobile Learning | User Generated Education - 2 views

  • Education 3.0 is a connectivist, heutagogical approach to teaching and learning.  The teachers, learners, networks, connections, media, resources, tools create a a unique entity that has the potential to meet individual learners’, educators’, and even societal needs.  Many resources for Education 3.0 are literally freely available for the taking.
  • Most schools are still living within and functioning through an Education 1.0 model.  They are focusing on an essentialist-based curriculum with related ways of teaching and testing.
  • Taking this one step further or from another angle, moving from Education 1.0 to Education 3.0 can be compared to moving from Pedagogy/Essentialism/Instructivism to Heutagogy/Constructivism/Connectivism
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  • The heutagogical, connectivist orientation is closely aligned with Education 3.0. In a heutagogical approach to teaching and learning, learners are highly autonomous and self-determined and emphasis is placed on development of learner capacity and capability. The renewed interest in heutagogy is partially due to the ubiquitousness of Web 2.0, and the affordances provided by the technology. With its learner-centered design, Web 2.0 offers an environment that supports a heutagogical approach, most importantly by supporting development of learner-generated content and learner self-directedness in information discovery and in defining the learning path.  Source: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1076
  •   In other words, they can engage in self-determined and self-driven learning where they are not only deciding the direction of their learning journey but they can also produce content that adds value and worth to the related content area or field of study.
  • Choosing the Teaching Orientation
  • It should not be as simple as stating that one, as an educator, uses one teaching orientation over another.  Educators need to examine what they are teaching and the population to whom they are teaching.  For example, procedural knowledge such as how to do first aid or fix a car; or a fixed body of knowledge such as human anatomy (for the medical field) or the study of law is typically best taught through a more teacher directed, “pedagogical” style. It becomes teaching with intentionality and strategically using the teaching and learning philosophies and approaches to reach desired outcomes.
  • The Pedagogy of Mobile Learning
  • With the idea that pedagogy is in line with a instructivist-essentialism method of teaching-learning, mobile learning in this category typically falls into the dissemination of content knowledge via apps. 
  • I use a simple criteria to determine their efficacy, “Would the learner choose to use the app if given the choice or use it during his/her free time?
  • Many project-based learning characteristics (authentic, real world problems; networked learning; use of collaborative digital tools) would fit under the category of the andragogy of mobile learning.
  • The Andragogy of Mobile Learning
  • The Heutagogy of Mobile Learning
  • The learners in a heutagogy of mobile learning environment
  • Determine what they want to learn and develop their own learning objectives
  • Use their own mobile learning devices and technologies to decide how they will learn.
  • Form their own learning communities possibly using social networking tool
  • Utilize the expertise of the educator and other members of their learning communities to suggest and introduce content-related resources.
  • Utilize the expertise of the educator and other members of their learning communities to suggest Web 2.0 and other online tools for that the students could possibly use to demonstrate and produce learning artifacts.
  • Demonstrate their learning through methods and means that work best for them.
  • Take the initiative to seek feedback from the instructor and their peers.  It is their choice to utilize that feedback or not.
  • Forming their Own Interest-Driven Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)
  • Curating
  • Developing a broad array of possible course assignments
Lucy Gray

Half of High Schoolers Own a Smartphone or Tablet - PR Newswire - The Sacramento Bee - 0 views

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    According to a mobile learning report released today from Blackboard Inc. and Project Tomorrow®, nearly 50 percent of high schoolers and 40 percent of middle schoolers now own or have access to a smartphone or tablet, marking a 400 percent increase since 2007. The report, which compares key opportunities and challenges in mobile device usage among K-12 students, finds that with this widespread adoption, more schools and school districts are considering the incorporation of mobile devices into instruction
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!)
ACTEM Technology Integrators

Positive Pressure & Support Part 2: Supervision - 0 views

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    So, you're waist deep in your school's initiative. Maybe it's improving learning by taking advantage of 1to1 tablets or laptops, or through Mass Customized Learning, or with a focus on student motivation and engagement. And you are providing teachers with training and resources.
Lucy Gray

Meeting Registration: Lessons Learned: How Android Mobile Devices Catalyzed Independent Learning for a 5th Grade Classroom | InstantPresenter Web Conferencing, Video Conferencing and Meeting Service - 1 views

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    "Presented by Marie Bjerede, Founder, e-Mergents and Project Manager, Learning Un-Limited,  with Tzaddi Bond, 5th Grade teacher from Portland, or With educational technology, it's not about the technology…except when it is. Join us on October 17th for our community's next webinar where we'll see how the availability of Android mobile devices for every student in Tzaddi Bond's 5th grade classroom removed obstacles to independent learning. Marie Bjerede, Founder of e-Mergents and Project Manager at Learning Untethered, will discuss how Tzaddi's students shifted towards a greater sense of agency, deeper learning, and more sophisticated achievement. Tzaddi will share how she was able to make bigger shifts in practice towards a "guide on the side" model of teaching and learning that would not have been possible without the Android devices. During the session, they also will describe the practices and policies that drove improved student outcomes. Co-hosted by edWeb.net and CoSN Sponsored by AT&T and the USC Rossier School of Education Visit the Mobile Learning Explorations community"
Lucy Gray

Apple's Slow But Radical Overhaul Of Education - 0 views

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    The next wave of that impact won't come from iBooks 3 or the new version of iBooks Author, which are both nice, but relatively minor updates. If anything from Tuesday's event will help push digital textbook adoption forward, it's the hardware. Specifically, the iPad Mini. By offering a $329 tablet, Apple suddenly made iPad adoption notably more affordable for cash-strapped school districts. Apple also released the fourth generation 10-inch iPad, which should help drive down the price of the company's older devices as well. 
Lucy Gray

Half of High Schoolers Own a Smartphone or Tablet, According to Report -- THE Journal - 3 views

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    The report, titled Learning in the 21st Century: Mobile Devices + Social Media = Personalized Learning, was released at the recent iNACOL Virtual School Symposium in New orleans.
Lucy Gray

Educators must enforce rules on mobile devices - New Philadelphia, OH - The Times-Reporter - 1 views

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    "I tell the kids every year coming into school that we're not against cell phones, but you're here to learn, so they belong in your locker or in your vehicle if you drive to school," Davis said.
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