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Carolina Montes

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

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  • 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.
  • 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’.
Tracey Ugalde

EasyBib Boasts Half a Billion Citations with 34 Million Students - 0 views

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      Tracey Ugalde on 01 May 12
       
      Love this feature!
  • Tracey Ugalde on 01 May 12
     
    This tool seems to be a great resource for student research.
Gretchen Dillon

Students, spectrum and the rise of mobile tech - 0 views

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  • The researchers expect that due to this expansion in data consumption, capacity will be ‘exceeded’ only next year, and a deficit may emerge in the following.
    • Gretchen Dillon
      Gretchen Dillon on 07 May 12
       
      This article resonates with me because the statistics are startling.  Has anyone done similar research?
  • A phone is considered a portable computing, gaming and social device rather than simply a means to place a call or send a quick message — and the younger generation are increasingly reliant on being able to access information quickly.
  • Gretchen Dillon on 07 May 12
     
    Mobile technology is increasingly important - but are we heading towards a mobile deficiency?
  • Gretchen Dillon on 08 May 12
     
    Also, check out the awesome infographic on mobile data growth!!!
Kate Spilseth

Changing culture of learning: Mobility, Informality, and connectivity - mLearning re-fr... - 0 views

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  • How can we use technologies to make learning more connected, more mobile? In Knowledge building students work in a community, investigate a topic, ask questions, conduct research, and self-assess progress. They also engage in face-to-face and online discussions to share, critique, build on, and synthesise ideas that are new to the community. It is a way of advancing personal and community knowledge.
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      Kate Spilseth on 03 May 12
       
      This article shows the need to use technology in the classroom and recognize the skills that students develop using social networking.
  • Many teachers do not see informal learning as they domain. But there is a semiotic relationship between formal and informal learning "The emphasis is on sharing, working together, and using a wide range of cultural references and knowledge..."
  • Knowledge is not fixed, not transmitted by authority, and we are constantly creating knowledge. There is a shift in control via ubiquitous access to learning resources, and in turn, the learners produce knowledge. This person is a mobile learner...and the whole world is mobile...the whole world is our curriculum.
  • Kate Spilseth on 28 Apr 12
     
    Recognizing technology and "soft skills" in the classroom will lead to more learning.
Stephanie Cummings

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

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  • "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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  • Our digital natives are counting on us.
  • Students are more engaged and motivated to learn when they use mobile devices, and research shows that academic performances can improve.
    • Michelle Munoz
      Michelle Munoz on 29 Apr 12
       
      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.
  • Stephanie Cummings on 10 May 12
     
    How the BYOD movement is changing the way students learn.
Gretchen Dillon

Groups advocate for mobile learning, 21st century education - 1 views

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  • The papers are part of UNESCO’s larger Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning, which scans the globe to provide concrete examples of how mobile technologies, thanks largely to their ubiquity and affordability, can respond to unique educational challenges, supplement and enrich formal schooling, and make learning everywhere more accessible, equitable and personalized.
  • “Mobile technology is enabling schools to truly reshape and rethink today’s and tomorrow’s K-12 classrooms. The more leaders and educators embed mobile learning into their districts, the more we’ll see an educational transformation that goes beyond our school walls, helping to maximize the potential of all students in the 21st century,” said CoSN CEO Keith Krueger
    • Gretchen Dillon
      Gretchen Dillon on 01 May 12
       
      I like that researchers are not only discussing the benefits of mobile learning, but now providing us with concrete examples for practical use!
  • Gretchen Dillon on 01 May 12
     
    New papers focus on professional development, equity, collaboration
Lisa Stewart

Signal poor on m-learning's impact | Education | Guardian Weekly - 0 views

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      Lisa Stewart on 08 May 12
       
      This article resonates with me because it serves to remind us that measuring the benefits of using mobile devices with ESL learners, is a difficult thing to measure.  That said, it therefore serves as a double reminder that we must make sure we take the time to design well thought-out lesson plans involving mlearning, or the benefits might not be reaped by those we are teaching. 
  • common message: this is a medium that can bridge educational and digital divides.
  • elatively little critical attention paid to how the outcomes of many projects are measured and reported.
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  • benefits it will have had on their language development or teaching skills are harder to measure
  • 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."
Debora Gomez

From Distraction to Engagement: Wireless Devices in the Classroom (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) ... - 0 views

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  • From Distraction to Engagement: Wireless Devices in the ClassroomFrom Distraction to Engagement: Wireless Devices in the ClassroomBy Berlin Fang Wireless devices in the classroom threaten to distract student attention but also offer opportunities for student engagement. Faculty use different methods to reduce in-class distractions, up to mandating no use of wireless devices during class sessions. To increase student engagement using wireless devices, faculty employ creative options for making wireless devices part of instruction, from cell phones as clickers to laptops for on-the-fly web research.The path of technology integration in education is lined with disruptions on one side and opportunities on the other. Technology teams work to bring useful technology into teaching, all with good intentions, only to encounter unwanted side effects such as distraction and disruption in the classroom. The challenges loom large in classrooms with wireless connections, especially when universities give students ubiquitous Internet access and sometimes even the devices for such access.
Kate Spilseth

Pocket-Based Learning: My Cellphone Classroom | Powerful Learning Practice - 1 views

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  • ell phones promote the expression of their thinking and learning.
  • In terms of critical thinking, my students research extensively on the web and it is very convenient for them to pull out their phones to access our wireless network rather than going to a computer lab in the school. They can share the links to various sites via text messaging or Facebook in a timely and efficient manner. Many of my students communicate regularly in these mediums so it allows for the ubiquitous transmission of ideas into and out of the classroom.
  • Cell phones and other devices also help my students to stay organized. T
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  • llowing cell phones in classrooms provides the opportunity to discuss proper cell phone etiquette as well as “netiquette.”
  • We discuss how having a positive online presence is important both for obtaining entrance into schools and receiving jobs. I often have students use their devices to “Google” themselves, and we use the results as a springboard for a discussion into what their online presence or “digital footprint” says about them. It has been a very eye-opening experience for many.
  • I believe the ideals of ethical behavior and digital citizenship are the driving factors for BYOD.
  • Our students are immersed in these wireless mediums, and it’s our responsibility as educators to help them learn how to use them responsibly. BYOD provides these real world authentic learning opportunities to almost all of our students.
  • Kate Spilseth on 09 May 12
     
    How cel phones are an asset in school, not a distraction.
Michelle Munoz

How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom | MindShift - 1 views

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  • ext blast through Remind101, asking them a challenge question that’s related to the day’s lesson. “First person to tell me the units on K for a second order reaction gets chocolate,” he types and sends off. His students know he does this regularly, so they’re constantly anticipating the question during the day, in and out of class.
  • fun ways to stay motivated in our day,
  • hum gets louder when kids are excited or working together, then quieter again when they’re working out problems on their individual little whiteboards
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  • 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.”
  • Carolina Montes on 11 May 12
     
    Ideas on how to us the cell phone in class.
Tania Hinojosa

Education Week: Schools Open Doors to Students' Mobile Devices - 0 views

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  • Schools Open Doors to Students' Mobile Devices
  • o connect to the school’s wireless network to do their work.
  • The students do see [a smartphone] as a potential learning tool
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  • Their [message] is that we need to start changing the policy, and using the resources that are already available.”
  • More educators are wising up, they say, to the reality that most students have phones or other mobile devices that could allow them to give real-time feedback to a lecture on a text-message back channel, take pictures during a science field trip, or answer teacher prompts with online polling.
  • what students are learning about technology use when they reshape mobile-device policies, ed-tech experts say.
  • Recent research shows the proportion of students owning cellphones is increasing
  • Educating Parents
  • Dede of the Harvard Graduate School of Education stresses that, while an eventual progression to open mobile-learning environments might be inevitable, that doesn’t mean it will be immediately beneficial. The learning potential of the devices, he says, won’t be realized without continuing professional development, as well as in-class trial and error.
    • Tania Hinojosa
      Tania Hinojosa on 16 May 12
       
      No cabe duda que es inevitable el dar acceso a los dispositivos móviles al salón de clases. Aprovechar la gran accesibilidad que tienen nuestros alumnos a estos aparatos , así como los programas educativos que nos ofrece la red.
    • Tania Hinojosa
      Tania Hinojosa on 16 May 12
       
      Otra ventaja es el poder estar en contacto con nuestros alumnos el mayor tiempo posible. La evaluación o retroalimentación es inmediata y directa.
Mariana Rendon

Developing the Child Brain - 0 views

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  • Children Endangered by Cell Phone Radiation
  • Their latest work shows the process is linked to serious brain damage. Professor Salford said neurons that would normally not become "senile" until people reached their 60s may now do so when they were in their 30s. In addition, research indicates that exposure to cell phones’ radiation causes red blood cells to leak hemoglobin. Scientists exposed samples of blood to microwave radiation and found that even at lower levels than those emitted by cell phones, the blood cells leaked hemoglobin.
  • Mariana Rendon on 15 May 12
     
    Mobile Device Risk
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