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education is still about finding that balance between tradition and innovation

common message: this is a medium that can bridge educational and digital divides.

the monitoring and evaluation design does not appear to include a control group, but rather focuses on English language competency of only the participants at the beginning of the year compared with the end.

The excitement surrounding the variety of m-learning projects is well-deserved, but there is clearly much to learn about how far teaching and learning English using the medium can benefit those in developing countries. As Traxler says, "Brilliant and exemplary work is being done on the ground by people using mobiles to deliver and enhance learning to distant and disadvantaged communities. Our problem is more to do with how badly we try to explain it, think about it, reason about it, learn from it, generalise from it and evaluate it."

Improvement of research skills.

rmation online is a skill that is now important in the workplac

improvement of communication.

or students and teachers to communicate effectively.

ocial medi

Relevant, real-life learning.

The promotion of digital citizenship.

tudents have to learn about how to conduct themselves appropriately online.

Engaging your students.

he ability to share learning material.

The potential to appeal to different learning styles.

create a Facebook group dedicated to your class, or set a task to research something across these networks?

Ease of access.

Social networking requires no expensive equipment or modern upgrades

Assisting shy students.

Distractions.

Unless teachers properly supervise their students

The risk of cyberbullying.

imiting face-to-face communicat

The need for schools to research, understand and implement.

Continual social media change.

There are constant changes to platforms themselves and their security settings — of which schools and teachers must keep up to date with and act accordingly.

The need to manage multiple sites and keep updated.

he possibility of malware infections or phishing scams.

The need to filter and plan.

Inappropriate content sharing or exposure.

Controlling device use in class.

Exposing the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’.

Students work in groups, and when they have a question, they call him over. He arrives with iPad in hand and records his voice and his writing on the iPad, which he immediately uploads to the class website so other students can benefit from the explanations instantaneously.

he incorporates peer-instruction and inquiry-based learning,

“I’m using it in the context of peer instruction, which is research based. You get anonymous feedback, which is great, and kids see all that information condensed,” he says. “Sometimes it’s just cute and fun and that wears off. But much more often, it’s more efficient and meaningful, and it makes the classroom feel like a bigger place.”

Using Socrative, an app that shows real-time poll results for both multiple-choice and short-answer quizzes, he challenges his students at the end of class to answer specific questions in order to get a broad look at whether they understood the concepts discussed that day.

makes the experience more immediate. I want it to be as rich and as visual as possible. I want them to see things, not just know it.”

idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that any technology addresses: social media, digital citizenship, content-knowledge versus skill-building, Internet filtering and safety laws, teaching techniques, bring-your-own-device policies, school budgets.

The data integration wouldn’t be as rich, the experience wouldn’t be as dynamic, the cognitive load is higher,”

It’s our responsibility as educators to teach kids how to interact with the world,” Sanders says. “Those interpersonal human conversations are incredibly valuable.”

it's a teacher's job to help prepare students to be successful in their real world where technology is commonplace. A teacher is not helping a student become successful by creating an artificial environment in school.

recognition to a student such as, "Gr8 contributions in 2day's discussion!"