One method of getting kids to engage reading in different ways is through a tablet-based literature circle.
Don’t understand a word in the text? A single tap on the screen pulls up a dictionary that gives the definition, and another tap returns the reader to the page on which the word appears. If a student is reading about the Great Depression but ha
s no understanding of what that is, the tablet can help.
If you make it more memorable and you give them a variety of different systems to use to articulate--drawing, web clips--you’re using more aspects of the mind, which makes it a more memorable experience, and it’s more likely they’ll remember information.”
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
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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.
No cabe duda que es inevitable el dar acceso a los dispositivos móviles al salón de clases.
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