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“We wanted to make a platform that could be used by all kids, teens, and college students and that cuts across demographics,” Okamoto says. “You don’t just have to have iPads or live in a very wealthy school district.”

ach school or class can create a group for themselves called a “cell” that users may access straight from their phone, email, or the Internet. They text to personal screen names, and to prevent cyber-bullying or inappropriate conduct, they cannot see each other’s numbers.

“The shy kids don’t like to talk during regular group discussions, but they’re really active on Celly,” he says.

Still, thanks to BYOT, high school is not so bad after all,

But experts say providing technology is the responsibility of schools, not parents.

“BYOT is pushing costs that should be paid by federal, state, or city governments to the families, like asking them to pay for the amount of bandwidth students need to do their work

Educational consultant Gary Stager agrees, arguing that BYOT just makes have-nots feel worse.  “The rationale for school uniforms, for putting kids in matching plaid polyester, is so poor kids don’t feel bad and aren’t stigmatized in the classroom.  BYOT is another form of stigmatizing kids,” he says.

Improvement of research skills.

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

improvement of communication.

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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’.

organize

to access their wo

view the changes and additions made to any document by a pe

add their own changes for their peers to review

Google Groups

skills will benefit from the linear posting nature

an instantaneous method of organization.

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freedom that is available when st

responding in a variety of different ways (such as through video or audio presentations or essays)

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.

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.

States are getting in the game, too. Last summer, Florida announced its goal to phase out textbooks in favor of digital learning by the year 2015. And Alabama representatives are planning to introduce the "Alabama Ahead Act" which would allow schools to purchase electronic tablets instead of textbooks

In a recently released study, only one out of five teachers believe they have the know-how to teach effectively with technology, despite a 91% rate of digital access.

Mentoring is a one-to-one relationship

between an expert and a novice in which the expert guides the novice by behavioural and cognitive modelling, academic and career counselling, emotional and scholarly support, advice, professional networking, and assessment.

Coaching is observing learners' performance and providing encouragement, diagnosis, directions, feedback, motivational prompts, monitoring and regulating learner performance, provoking reflection, and perturbing learners' models.

Facilitating is providing technical, pedagogical, managerial, and social activities that maintain sustained and authentic communication between and among instructors and students.

Technical:

Management Function:

e-teacher who plays the role of mentor, coach (Volman, 2005) and facilitator, (that is the so called 'e-moderator'

Social Function:

In order to perform these teaching functions, teacher training should focus on how to develop a series of abilities and strategies

Professional:

Intellectual Function:

Personal:

advantage of e-training is that it permits the achievement of really autonomous learning, for its convenience in time and space.

The primary function is that of orientator,

motivator and guide of the students.

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."

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.”

50 resources for iPad use in the classroom By Charlie Osborne | May 3, 2012, 6:00am PDT The transition to the more extensive use of technology in classrooms across the West has resulted in the integration of bring your own device (BYOD) schemes, equipping students with netbooks and tablet computers, and lessons that use social media & online services. Gesture-based technology is on the rise; according to the latest NMC Horizon Report, gesture-based technological models will become more readily integrated as a method of learning within the next few years. The iPhone, iPad, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect technology are examples of these kinds of developments, and in particular, resources for Apple products in education are becoming widely available online. For teachers, some of which are just beginning to use tablets and mobile devices in class, these resources can be invaluable in promoting more interactive classrooms and understanding how best to use and control such products. Below is a collection of tutorials, lesson plans and applications for educators to utilize.

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.

allow them to instantly tweet their blurts silently instead of out loud.

Parents can sign up to receive tweets from teachers, learning about activities, tests, projects, and more.

Send out quick quizzes on Twitter, and have them count for bonus points in the classroom.

Students can tweet sentences using a particular word to build vocabulary learning.

As long as students are held accountable for their grammar, using Twitter offers a great opportunity for improving writing and punctuation.

Ask students to unscramble anagrams, contribute synonyms, or give vocabulary definitions on Twitt

When students participate in Twitter discussions in class, there’s a great opportunity for conversations to continue to develop even after the lecture is over.

make time to offer and teach

go into classrooms and model lessons using technology. I try to make a point to emphasize to the teachers that time on task increases learning for students. Engagement = student success.

big downfall of BYOD programs, he explains, is that school officials have no control over whether ­students actually will bring their devices to class:

expanding each school's media center hours