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Alejandra Salazar

5 Tips to Make eLearning Enjoyable | Custom Training and eLearning Blog - 0 views

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    Immerse and engage learners in the learning!
Stephanie Cummings

Mobile Learning Technologies for 21st Century Classrooms | Scholastic.com - 0 views

  • "It provides the potential to empower and uplift students in their learning,"
  • To maximize effectiveness, education in the 21st century has to be active, engaging, and customized. Students must have universal access to mobile technologies that will enable critical thinking, differentiation, and problem solving. It is our belief that the technology in Apple's iPad meets these needs and more."
  • cell phones in education involve websites like Poll Everywhere and Text the Mob, which allow a teacher to create a set of questions that the students can respond to with a text message.
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  • Students are more engaged and motivated to learn when they use mobile devices, and research shows that academic performances can improve.
  • Our digital natives are counting on us.
    • Michelle Munoz
       
      Mlearning engages our students in their own learning and investigations. "Our digital natives are counting on us"
  • Mobile learning technologies offer teachers-and students-a more flexible approach to learning.
  • More and more schools are moving toward mobile learning in the classroom as a way to take advantage of a new wave of electronic devices that offer portability and ease of use on a budget.
  • Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach
  • They are more engaged in learning when using the latest technological gadgets, because it is what they are most used to interacting with. Our students don't just want mobile learning, they need it.
  • The study found that after children had used the app every every day for two weeks, the vocabulary of Title 1 children between three and seven years old improved by as much as 31 percent.
  • Studies like these help underline the academic potential that mobile learning devices can have to enrich the learning process for students.
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    How the BYOD movement is changing the way students learn.
Gretchen Dillon

YogiPlay Introduces World's First Insight and Recommendation Engine for Mobile Learning... - 0 views

  • With more than 100,000 downloads and over 20,000 active customers, YogiPlay was developed to address the growing frustration by parents who are struggling to find the right, high-quality learning apps for their kids.
  • Every app in the YogiPlay network is carefully evaluated for age-appropriateness, educational value and, most importantly, fun.
    • Gretchen Dillon
       
      It is important for us to consider both educational value AND the "fun" factor when evaluating mobile apps to use with our students and to recommend to students' parents!
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    Innovative technology provides parents (and teachers) with important learning insight and personalized app recommendations for kids
Tania Hinojosa

Benefits of Mobile Learning | Acteva Blog - 0 views

  • pproximately 63% of students carrying a mobile device in the classroom1
  • Mobile learning breaks the artificial barrier of constrained learning (within a limited time and space). Mobile devices enable you to effectively learn 24/7 and from any place across the world! Enterprises have realized the potentiality of mobile gadgets. You can use such devices to instantly inform, educate your employees and customers about the latest news, products, company rules, and so on.
  • bile learning can benefit teachers as well.
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