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amorejon

Future of Education: Mobile learning, Cell phone - 0 views

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Future Mobile Device

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  • amorejon on 22 Apr 12
     
    M-Learning: Promises, Perils, and Challenges for K-12 Education Dr. Patricia Wallace, Ph.D. Senior Director of CTYOnline and IT at Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth With cell phone ownership expanding to more students at younger ages, the prospect of leveraging these devices for learning is generating considerable discussion and debate among educators.
jenwilkerson

Encouraging Distraction? Classroom Experiments with Mobile Media - ProfHacker - The Chr... - 0 views

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  • I think the best place to start when thinking about incorporating technology into the classroom is by asking the question, “What is the right tool for this particular job?” Sometimes it’s a digital tool and sometimes it’s not. But when we force a digital tool into a classroom scenario where it isn’t the best one for the job, students are extremely quick to pick up on this “tech for tech’s sake” implementation.
  • And the faster and more intense our connectedness becomes, the further we move away from that ideal. Digital busyness is the enemy of depth.”
  • Instead, if used in a dynamic way that addresses the medium’s strengths, mobile media can actually get us to engage with each other and with the spaces we move through in deep, meaningful, and context-rich ways.
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  • It is apparent that the students often shift between the two classroom spheres. Does this “distraction” take them away from engaging with the content I’m presenting? Quite the contrary. From my experience, they are engaged with the material that is being discussed in a much more sustained way because the devices that have typically severed as “distractions” in the past (e.g. using the laptop or the mobile phone to access Facebook) are now being utilized to constantly engage them with the material.
  • The quiz began with a QR code posted on my office door (I started here so they would all know where my office was located!) that led them to a download of the 7scenes app.
  • from Broadcastr to Foursquare
  • When they arrived to class on the day of the field test, we all went geocaching around campus.
  • The three groups each decided to create fictional narratives and used a range of mobile media from websites designed for the iPad, geocaches that contained narrative elements, and one group even built a reverse geocache that held the contents of the story.
  • Soon, if it hasn’t happened already, every teacher in higher education will have to develop a strategy for mobile phone use in the classroom (whether that be to integrate the technology or to ban it).
Kat Anderson

Education Week: Mobile Devices Address Tech. Equity in Africa - 0 views

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technology

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  • Kat Anderson on 01 Feb 12
     
    Technology Access
Matt Baedke

Computer History 1939 - 1994 - 0 views

www.computerhistory.org/timeline

History

shared by Matt Baedke on 01 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Matt Baedke on 01 Feb 12
     
    This was a pretty cool site I stumbled upon. It gives a pretty general overview of major technological advances in a particular year. Who knew that Hewlett Packard was founded in 1939 and produced a device that Disney used for sound effects in the movie "Fantasia" in 1940?! And that the "Speak and Spell" was invented in my birth year of 1978. The timeline stops at 1994 for some reason. Interesting nonetheless!
Jesse Chavis

West Prairie Board approves three-year technology plan - 0 views

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plan

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  • Jesse Chavis on 25 Feb 12
     
    Find whatever you're looking forwith Totally Local Yellow Pages West Prairie School District's three-year technology plan, approved by the district's board of education Thursday night, includes steps to move the district towards implementing a one-to-one digital learning program that would provide students with their own device, such as a laptop computer or iPad.
vivienne brooks

Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students - 1 views

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history

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  • vivienne brooks on 06 Sep 11
     
    Research by the US Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the effects of increased technology use in the classroom.
  • Norma Acero on 06 Sep 11
     
    I loved reading here about how self-esteem in students increases as a result of the use of technology. I hadn't thought about it, and the examples it presents make me think about a good number of situations I have witnessed myself in which kids who struggle at almost everything can master rapidly a technological device, and how that becomes a golden opportunity for them to shine...
KAY-ANN MCKOY

It's More than Computers - 2 views

www.nctp.com/tpmore.pdf

Technology Plan

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  • KAY-ANN MCKOY on 08 Oct 11
     
    This article make a profound connection which evoked intrinsic reflection on my part. It's simplicity, coupled with these conection makes this piece of advice true no matter what we are planning for. "Sometimes, one of the key elements-a key tool-in the planner's arsenal is pure, simple honesty. This means that planners must commit themselves to shed any defensive feelings they might have, or be threatened to adopt, as they examine their particular situation. True, sustainable growth comes from facing the honest reality of a condition, then working together to build a strategy for guaranteed success." (L.S. Anderson, 1999) National Center for Technology Planning Hence, technology planning is more than computers, it's a way of life.
  • Norma Acero on 09 Oct 11
     
    I love how the article is focused towards people and the planning itself more than the machines... No matter what technological resources we have at hand, they may be well used or totally underused... It is true! It's more about the community and how the plans are developed, connecting all individuals, than about the physical devices.
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