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Lisa Stewart

10 Mobile Learning Trends for 2012 « Educational Publishing - 1 views

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      This article resonates with me because it is an easy to follow summary of what will be HOT this year in mlearning. I appreciate its simplicity and think it could go a long way to helping teachers map out the integration of technology in their classrooms.  
Lisa Stewart

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

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      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."
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mLearning: effective or disruptive? | Think! blog - 0 views

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      Great article looking at how Africa is begining to discuss mlearning.  This article resonates with me as I am pleased to see that children all over the world are getting the chance to explore the digital world, thereby helping to close the gap in education around the globle. 
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Texting 1, 2, 3: Schools Test 'Bring Your Own Technology' Programs | Techland | TIME.com - 1 views

  • As protesters took to the streets yesterday to protest the inequality of wealth, two computer scientists in Portland, Oregon are protesting the inequality of resources in schools.
  • t Celly, a text-messaging service that teachers and students can use to make classwork more fun and engaging
  • Celly is part of a larger national trend in schools known as “Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT),” in which students are allowed to bring their mobile devices to class. Advocates argue that if young people are already glued to them, then teachers and principals should come up with educational uses for them
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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.
  • Still, thanks to BYOT, high school is not so bad after all,
  • “The shy kids don’t like to talk during regular group discussions, but they’re really active on Celly,” he says.
  • 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.
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      Interesting article about the BYOT and the Celly network.   I love the idea of the Celly network, and think ASF should look into it.  This article resonates with me because it touched upon one argument against BYOT, which is simply that such a program separates the "haves" from the "have nots". 
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Digital learning: Education goes mobile worldwide - Academy - DNA - 0 views

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      An interesting look at another developing country, India, is begining to introduce both e-learning and m-learning in their schools.  This resonates with me because Kothavala makes several good, clear points regarding the benefits of m-learning. 
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25 Apps for Global Mobile Learning | Asia Society - 0 views

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      A great source for some really exciting mlearning apps! This article resonates with me because it gives some great examples of practical, eduacational apps that can be used in the classroom for mlearning!
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Blackboard Introduces Open Enrollment for CourseSites - PR Newswire - The Sacramento Bee - 0 views

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      Good to see a big education company, like Blackboard is getting on board with mlearning.   This article resonates with me because I think that this step will go a long way in improving Blackboard :) 
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