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Cindy Edwards

Are You Ready for Mobile Learning? (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

  • Avoid overly complex material that includes lots of facts and figures. Complex subject matter is often more effectively conveyed through handouts and readings than through a podcast.
  • Always keep in mind the learner's context when selecting content for a podcast.
  • Only use lectures as podcasts when you have a strong pedagogical rationale for doing so.
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  • imit the scope of the content to only a few main themes.
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    This article is a good overview of mobile learning and not just ipods and ipads.
Cindy Edwards

http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/guides/edutopia-mobile-learning-guide.pdf - 0 views

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    Great information for using mobile devices in the classroom.
Cindy Edwards

Teaching the Essential Skills of the Mobile Classroom | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Great article - the last paragraph is an excellent summary.
Cindy Edwards

Fingerprint | Mobile Learning & Play for Kids and Their Grownups - 0 views

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    An app that brings out creativity in many ways.
Sarah Wurth

A List of 20 Free Tools for Teachers to Create Awesome Presentations and Slideshows ~ E... - 0 views

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    Some new ones on here I have never used!
Cindy Edwards

Exploring the Use of the iPad for Literacy Learning - Hutchison - 2012 - The Reading Te... - 0 views

  • capabilities of a desktop or laptop computer, but with additional unique affordances, such as a multitouch screen and a seemingly endless variety of applications, that promote previously unseen possibilities for mobile learning.
  • digital, interactive books.
  • different affordances that create new modes of reading and writing
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  • digital texts can require different skills, strategies and dispositions, collectively referred to as new literacies
  • Yet, many literacy teachers still struggle to efficiently and effectively integrate and teach both traditional literacy skills and new literacy skills within a confined curriculum and with limited time (Hutchison & Reinking, 2011).
  • For example, the iPad has numerous downloadable books that allow students to read text with audio support, word-by-word tracking, and picture animation, with options for the reader to further interact by recording and replaying their own voice with the text. Other features of these books also include the ability to acquire the definition and pronunciation of any word on the screen by simply touching it and to add notes or highlighting to any section of text by tapping the screen.
  • making the reading experience more individualized, interactive, and engaging
  • it is imperative to examine how the tool can help teachers meet curricular goals to engage in what has been termed curricular integration as opposed to technological integration (Hutchison & Reinking, 2011).
  • one learning goal for her classroom was to focus on the reading comprehension strategy of visualization
  • selected a story from her basal reading series and then chose the pedagogical approach that would best teach the skill.
  • the researchers located an iPad app called Doodle Buddy that students could use to draw their illustrations
Debbie Coleman

15 Effective Ways to Use Google Docs in Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    Intro to Google Docs
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