SJR Teacher/Learners

Only if the desired forms of learning in the classroom can be assisted by having a laptop or other electronic device at the students' disposal.

The goal of this article simply is to look at some online comic creation sites, and compare their capabilities.

I've had my home address posted for anyone to see since as long as I've been living. It's called a telephone book and this technology lists the names, addresses and phone numbers of virtually every resident of every location. Scary.

eStudent is a content creation and sharing platform specially designed for use with the Apple iPad mobile computing device. It allows a teacher to create content for lessons and then "push out" the content to their students' iPads, as well as for students to create and share content with one another and in groups. The features eStudent offers to boost mobile collaboration include:

The iPad however, provides an alternative method by providing a lower cost of entry, while allowing for student-centered instruction where students are able to both create content and access information anywhere, anytime.  The key for revolutionizing education is having educators who embrace this technology to change how they teach to create a learning environment where students, not teachers, are the focus of the instruction.   

“Yeah it does all that and it’s a phone!”  Amidst a cacophony of reverent Oooh’s and Ahh’s, I unknowingly witnessed the birth of the Smart-Phone and the death knell of the PDA.  I bring this up because I recently was approached by someone who told me that our school should get rid of all PC’s and give everyone iPads.

but the tablet format could lead to changes in education.

10 Ways Technology Supports 21st Century Learners in Being Self-Directed

main differences between praise and encouragement is that praise often comes paired with a judgment or evaluation

this sort of online platform puts the pace and path of learning firmly in the hands of the student. Work at your own level, learn concepts in the order that makes the most sense to you. Learn when you want to learn, how you want to learn.

And this is that new kind of literacy I was talking about—knowing how-to-search and knowing-what-to-search. 

What makes these authentic, intimate learning opportunities possible? Mobile technologies. Mobile devices provide the platform and, as importantly, the incentive for students to take personal ownership of the learning experience.

we need to move students up the education chain

“The school becomes not a factory but an incubator.”

We need to participate in face-to-face learning

We need to learn through global communities of inquiry.

We need to build a personal learning network (PLN)

The ban also fails, they say, to take into account the role social networking has had in real-world events - most recently the civil uprising in Egypt - and dismisses some of the rich and meaningful ways students use it, including to display grief and to rally for causes.

''Ineffective policy is to ban use; prohibition has never worked,'' he says. ''We want to ensure that each student's electronic footprint is one they are proud of. We do not want to become a society where inappropriate social relations become endemic.

Lest there’s any doubt that educators are a crucial part of learning — with or without tech tools

“The technology train has left. You have to deal with it, understand it, and get some perspective.”

You and every other so-called multitasker are actually serial tasking. Rather than engaging in simultaneous tasks, you are in fact shifting from one task to another to another in rapid succession. For example, you switch from your phone conversation to a document on your computer screen to an email and back again in the belief that you are doing them simultaneously. But you’re not.