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Give Students Mobile Devices to Maximize Their Learning Time
In a blog post, Chris Dede, a professor in learning technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, advocates the use of mobile devices in education. The devices, which allow students to learn any time and anywhere, expand instructional time beyond the classroom and the teacher and help increase students’ motivation to learn, Dede writes. NBC.com/Education Nation blog
by Jeff Utecht
This coming year though I have a feeling we’re not going to see a lot of new technologies but rather the integration of technologies and a continued move to the mobile platform. Much like 2009 we will go deeper into finding ways the technology that already exists can and will effect our lives and education.
from App Advice
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“MOBL21 is a powerful, yet simple application that allows educators and learners to create learning material that can then be made available in any mobile environment. As part of the mobile learning community, we will be exploring the latest developments in the mobile technology world as and when they happen. And more importantly, how these technologies can be used to overcome today’s challenges in education.”
Steven Anderson (http://twitter.com/web20classroom/) posted a tweet about a post on the Mobl21 Blog; 6 Ways to use mobile learning in your class. Some excellent ideas here. Check it out Mobl21 and their blog is http://www.mobl21.com/blog/. You can find Steve Anderson’s blog at: http://web20classroom.blogspot.com/. Steve returned in January, 2010, to Clemmons Middle School as the Instructional Technologist, working with teachers and students on technology integration. Most recently he was selected to be a panelist at the #140 Conference in Los Angeles, organized by Vonage founder, Jeff Pulver, where he discusses the impact of Twitter and other social media on education. As part of the conference he was one of the first recipient of the NOW Award, recognizing the “Movers and Shakers” in the world of Social Media. He will return to the #140 Conference in 2010 as a featured speaker, this time in New York City. Also in 2009 Steven was voted the Most Influential Tweeter as part of the Annual Edublog awards and was a co-recipent of the Most Influential Series of Tweets for his part in helping to create #edchat, a weekly education discussion on Twitter that boosts over 500 weekly participants.
