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The studies are part of a new Making Learning Mobile project, an attempt to quantify and qualify the benefits of mobile technology in education and the infrastructure needed to support mobile activities. The studies were conducted by Project Tomorrow and sponsored by Kajeet, a wireless service provider focused exclusively on kids and education. Funding was also provided by Qualcomm through its Wireless Reach initiative. The studies put Android tablets in the hands of students and their teachers in two schools — eighth-graders at Stone Middle School in Fairfax County Public Schools and fifth-graders at Falconer Elementary School in Chicago Public Schools — and provided wireless access to the students both in school and away from school.
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Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2014. Every year, one of the most enlightening parts of Gartner Symposium is Gartner Fellow David Cearley's list of the top 10 strategic technology trends.
Unlike the more speculative top 10 predictions, this is usually a much more realistic list of technology trends that have the biggest potential for significant enterprise impact over the next three years. As such, they may not be as surprising but they are still instructive. This year, Cearley divided the list into three groups, as defined by Gartner's "Nexus of Forces" (social, mobile, cloud, and information) framework. Four of the 10 were listed as Converging Forces, in other words, things brought up by forces interacting. These include mobile device diversity and management, mobile apps and applications, the Internet of Everything, and Hybrid Cloud and IT as a service broker.
Gartner expects all of these areas to drive significant change or disruption in the industry. Mobile Device Diversity & Management Mobile Apps and Applications. Four Ways Social Media is Changing Journalism. Seconds after the first bomb exploded at the 2013 Boston marathon, social media erupted.
In minutes, media giants like The Boston Globe were harvesting content from thousands of sources on the ground; verifying and broadcasting information at unprecedented rates. The ensuing manhunt led to the most profound example how social media is altering the face of journalism. More threatening than when print was overtaken by radio and television, journalists need to evolve with social media in order to retain their eminence as the go-to news source. But how, as journalists, can you build a following that opens their news app before their Twitter one? Le blogue » Archive du Blogue » «Think big!» (ou le potentiel du big data) 30 Apps Perfect For BYOD Classrooms. BYOD classrooms can address a number of issues.
It can solve the problem of not having enough (or any) devices for your classroom.