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Matthew Schendel

Mobile Learning | MindShift - 0 views

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      Collaborate with students. Engage students as co-designers when you develop pilot projects, by actively seeking their advice for how to improve the project and embedded activities. These same students can serve as experts or classroom assistants when the project is implemented more broadly.
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    mobile learning, coding, creating games, and all of this can exist in the classroom!!! Very cool.
veronica occelli

Introducing School-Wide Digital Citizenship Practices with iPads « EdApps.ca - 0 views

  • Introducing School-Wide Digital Citizenship Practices with iPads 8Share An elementary school in our district recently got 30 iPads and asked for some advice implementing them with students and teachers. In addition to suggesting some starter apps, I recommended that we have conversations with kids around the appropriate use of these devices. While almost every child has used an iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone, the exciting learning opportunities these mobile, Internet-connected, media creation devices create also open the door to new challenges. Cyberbullying or inappropriate web publishing happens more through the camera than regular computer use does; the mobility of the device combined with the reality that multiple users are using the device with no personalized, password-protected, network-tracked accounts makes it more challenging to keep track of who is doing what with the device or that the device itself is safe. R
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    We need to read this before we start taking our own videos and photos of students for the class!
Isabel Fernandez

The 5 Keys to Educational Technology -- THE Journal - 1 views

  • Educational technology is the considered implementation of appropriate tools, techniques, or processes that facilitate the application of senses, memory, and cognition to enhance teaching practices and improve learning outcomes.
Gretchen Dillon

50 QR code resources for the classroom - 1 views

  • In the classroom, QR codes can be used in a variety of ways — from conducting treasure hunts to creating modern CVs. Below is a number of articles, tutorials and lesson plans designed to help educators.
  • Quick response codes, also known as ‘QR’ codes, are simple, scannable images that are a form of barcode. By scanning a QR code image through a mobile device, information can be accessed including text, links, bookmarks and email addresses.
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      This article resonates with me because of its resourcefulness.  There is less written about "why" to use them and more written about "how" to implement them.
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      I am curious as to how many teachers at ASF are already using QR codes in their classrooms?
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    As mobile learning and technology is more readily integrated within classroom settings, QR codes can be used as an interesting method to capture a student's attention and make lesson material more interactive.
Kate Spilseth

Experts outline mobile learning tips | eSchool News - 0 views

  • Mobile learning “is such a transformational phase in education today
  • Most importantly, mobile learning is not about the device. Mobile learning is about philosophically changing the way you’re going to conduct instruction inside the classroom.”
  • students can use their own devices, school-owned devices, or devices donated by businesses or community members for student use.
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  • It’s really important that you have first the understanding, and then acceptance, from the school, teachers, parents, and the school board, because they need to understand why you’re trying to [implement] this philosophical change in instruction,
  • he notion of one device per child is quickly becoming outdated, as students often have two or three devices, such as a smart phone, internet-capable mobile device such as an iPod Touch, and tablet devices. This, he said, makes it necessary for schools to examine their wireless infrastructures and ensure that there is enough bandwidth and device management capability to handle the increased demand.
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    Mobile Learning Tips
Carolina Montes

The pros and cons of social media classrooms | ZDNet - 0 views

  • It is a familiar tool.
  • u are making yourself more aware of issues surrounding students today.
  • Resource availability.
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  • 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.
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  • 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’.
Charmaine Weatherbee

Projects - Pedagogies - mLearning - 0 views

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      Technology in action.  A classroom that is integrating technology into its science lesson planning. Great ideas that one could implement into own lessons
Kate Spilseth

eLearning Trends: How Hot is Mobile Learning in 2012? - 0 views

  • But mobile learning these days is about more than just remote access; it’s also a matter of flexibility.
  • As far as formal training in businesses goes, the interest in mobile learning is certainly there.
  • very few full-scale Learning Management Systems are currently offering mobile learning as a native offering.
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  • organizations can simplify the content creation process, share that information seamlessly (yet securely), and track viewing behavior, course completion and quiz results.
  • exactly how organizations implement mobile learning is something to keep an eye on throughout 2012 and beyond.
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    Mobile learning as a trend with its advantages and disadvantages.
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