Mobile learning’s growing momentum: Study
The tide against cellphones in school – for learning, not just communication – seems to be turning. Student engagement, tight school budgets (or reasonable technology that so many students already...
View ArticleStudents learning with digital tools in spite of school: Study
It’s no surprise, but it’s encouraging if true: America’s students are not waiting for the rest of us to “catch up to their vision for 21st-century learning,” reports Project Tomorrow, which conducts...
View ArticleNASSP calls for social & mobile tech in school
We’ve turned a corner, maybe. “The National Association of Secondary School Principals is looking to change the conversation about mobile computing and social media in schools,” TheJournal.com reports....
View ArticleMobile learning gathering momentum
“Please turn on your cell phone – or your iPad or whatever wireless device you brought from home. Class is about to begin.” More and more students may be hearing that instruction at the start of class....
View ArticleA class as a team of co-learners
…with the focus on the learners, which can certainly include the teacher. This is the conceptual infrastructure, presented in educator Jackie Gerstein’s User-Generated Education blog, for using tech in...
View ArticleObama administration’s e-textbook push
It’s not just a cost-cutting measure, apparently and thankfully. In an effort to get “every US school to accelerate the transition to digital textbooks,” the Obama administration is asking states to...
View ArticleSome mobile learning myth-busting
As I read “5 myths about mobile learning,” I realized how literal we are in our assumptions – and how much we base them on a technology’s physical properties. When you really think about it – or...
View ArticleUnboxing learning
Last spring I had the privilege and fun of spending a whole class period with middle school students talking about their favorite uses of technology. Of course there were about as many preferences as...
View ArticleMobile learning & edugames taking off worldwide
Whether it’s the chicken or the egg – the device or the edugames – fueling the growth isn’t completely clear, but “tablets are proliferating everywhere across the planet,” said Sam Adkins, head of...
View ArticleDealing with distraction with the HELP of digital environments
Learning how to be present, attend to others, know what’s important in a given moment and stay focused on it has always been a vital part of growing up. “The ability to focus is a secret element to...
View ArticleMobile learning’s growing momentum: Study
Interest in using mobile devices for classroom instruction may have reached a tipping point, with growing support from administrators, students, parents, and innovative teachers, but resistance remains...
View ArticleStudents learning with digital tools in spite of school: Study
Students aren't waiting around for schools to adopt 21st-century collaborative learning tools and neither are their parents, as they increasingly support their children's use of digital devices for...
View ArticleNASSP calls for social & mobile tech in school
We’ve turned a corner, maybe. “The National Association of Secondary School Principals is looking to change the conversation about mobile computing and social media in schools,” TheJournal.com reports....
View ArticleMobile learning gathering momentum
“Please turn on your cell phone – or your iPad or whatever wireless device you brought from home. Class is about to begin.” More and more students may be hearing that instruction at the start of class....
View ArticleA class as a team of co-learners
…with the focus on the learners, which can certainly include the teacher. This is the conceptual infrastructure, presented in educator Jackie Gerstein’s User-Generated Education blog, for using tech in...
View ArticleObama administration’s e-textbook push
It’s not just a cost-cutting measure, apparently and thankfully. In an effort to get “every US school to accelerate the transition to digital textbooks,” the Obama administration is asking states to...
View ArticleSome mobile learning myth-busting
As I read “5 myths about mobile learning,” I realized how literal we are in our assumptions – and how much we base them on a technology’s physical properties. When you really think about it – or...
View ArticleUnboxing learning
Last spring I had the privilege and fun of spending a whole class period with middle school students talking about their favorite uses of technology. Of course there were about as many preferences as...
View ArticleMobile learning & edugames taking off worldwide
Whether it’s the chicken or the egg – the device or the edugames – fueling the growth isn’t completely clear, but “tablets are proliferating everywhere across the planet,” said Sam Adkins, head of...
View ArticleDealing with distraction with the HELP of digital environments
Learning how to be present, attend to others, know what’s important in a given moment and stay focused on it has always been a vital part of growing up. “The ability to focus is a secret element to...
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