EDC672 Mobile Devices in the Instructional Program

Applications for Education Tools like Record MP3 are great for posting short reminder messages on your blog for your students to hear. If  you're going to be out of your classroom for a day, record a message with that day's directions for student and post it on your blog. Then your substitute teacher can hear the directions and your students can too and nothing gets lost in the chain of communication.

 ThingLink and Jellycam.

This is an aggregate of blog posts written about integrating mobile learning into the classroom.

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etting students know about last minute news like canceled classes.

: Instead of emailing each other or waiting to meet in class, students can collaborate on projects and keep track of changes by using a Twitter hashtag.

While you will never prevent all interruptions, a second, more subtle solution is to embrace this disruptive technology and incorporate it into your teaching. Here’s how.

QR codes can link the physical and virtual worlds by allowing students to link to more information about an object or historically significant building or area Bringing learning into the physical world and out of the classroom Allowing students whose native language is one other than the dominant language of their school to connect to information about objects or ideas in their native languages

link to specific information on the internet quickly and easily. 

a flipped classroom is a classroom where the instructional time and student activity time are reversed.

Teachers record their lesson or lecture and post their recording online for students to access for homework. As the student works through a video in their own time and in their own space, they can pause to think about what the teacher discussed, to take notes, or can replay a section they did not understand.

combine the best that elearning and face-to-face learning have to offer.