Why BYOD? Pricing. Our billing is annual. You can pay by credit card online. Enterprise plans come with the option of invoicing for payment. Contact us for details Absolutely! Mobicip is a pay-as-you-go service and you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Yes, we take security very seriously. We accept Amex, Visa, Mastercard and Discover credit cards. We pride ourselves in working with schools and educators worldwide, and we salute your passion and involvement. We appreciate the love and support! Bad cell phone etiquette. Welcome to the Egan Library proxy server! Mobile Learning Portal. 9 Sources of Free eBooks for MOOC Teachers and Students.
By Ariel Diaz By enrolling in a MOOC, a student is already showing signs of self-direction and motivation that are key to successful online learning. While MOOCs provide great guidelines for what students should learn and set a good pace for learning, self-directed students can also look to other online content resources to get the full value out of their course. Given the wide variety of students who are enrolling in MOOCs, it should be obvious that these students will need a wide assortment of additional learning content to hone skills, understand concepts and share with classmates.
Offering free classes through online MOOCs isn’t enough to expand access to quality education. Students need a full range of affordable learning resources, not just lectures. They require everything from one-on-one tutoring to video explanations to modular content. That some MOOCs rely on traditional textbooks as part of the curriculum goes against the very nature of a digital learning experience. The "BYOD" Debate - Educational Technology for School Leaders.
1. Cost Effective way to increase technology in schools. (ALM)"It goes without saying the a BYOD policy allows a district to get closer to a 1 to 1 device ratio without incurring the costs of a 1 to 1 program. " - Oak Hills Portfolio, Cincinnati. Oak Hills Portfolio When students are able to bring their own device to school, the school is saving money on the cost of purchasing device.
Districts are facing more budget cuts and money restraints than ever before, so by allowing students to bring their own device, districts can save money. Student-provided devices frees money so the district can provide for those who cannot afford their own. (MWH) 2. BYOD Policy Chequamegon School District Hookset School District BYOD Policy 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. This link gives a list of tips for how to create a workable policy; it also makes it clear that schools are embracing what companies are already exploring and using. 7 Tips to Make a BYOD Policy Safe 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. a.
B. 5. 6. Why BYOD Makes Sense: Thinking Beyond a Standardized 1:1. I was recently asked, "Why are you giving the teachers choice of a laptop? Why not just go all in with one device? " My answer, simply stated, is that homogenization of any tool is never a good idea in a context that is intended to foster creativity. The same argument is underway with the Common Core. Many fear that we are homogenizing educational standards and limiting opportunity for creativity, hacking and boundless exploration.
However, this post is not about Common Core or educational politics. Standardization vs. A lot of schools make the mistake of trying to control every aspect of technology integration. The best analogy is the case for school uniforms, which has always sparked a debate regardless of the decade or century. As schools plan large-scale technology rollouts, they should begin by considering what would be best for the student population. Listening to the Stakeholders My next challenge will be sustaining this momentum without overwhelming everyone involved.
Smart phones require smart communication strategies. By Nora Carr, APR, Fellow PRSARead more by October 10th, 2012 When parents perceive a communication void, they will work to fill it, by creating their own mobile apps or alternative social media sites. With as many as 49 percent of all U.S. adults using smart phones, according to Nielsen reports, it’s time to get smart about school communications as well.
Today’s on-the-go parents, teachers, and principals require fast, easy access to news and information. In most cases, this requires access to stripped-down mobile websites or special applications (apps) designed for smaller screens and sometimes sketchy wireless internet connections. Smart-phone use is nearly ubiquitous among young American adults. Unlike other technologies, America’s smart-phone obsession cuts across gender lines as well as racial and ethnic groups.
A small, qualitative research study we conducted last spring in my district confirms these results. 10 Innovative Schools Allowing Smartphones in the Classroom. Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know (available in Spanish) How to Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools.
Does your staff need Educational Technology training? The K-12 Teachers Alliance can help you plan your in-service professional development at no additional cost. Regardless of your school’s cell phone policy, the reality in most schools is that students have phones in their pockets, purses, or hoodies. Why not get these tools out in plain sight and use them for good and not evil?
Here are some easy to use strategies to use cell phones in the classrooms. Proven teaching strategies to boost your students' happiness. A few suggestions.on classroom activities that involve performance for... We point out some knowledgeable educators who quickly can become your trusted... Here are a few suggestions on how to motivate students intrinsically. Reasons why a class may be less likely to pipe up and interact during a lesson... Why Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools Cell phones are different from a computer lab filled with computers or a cart of netbooks because the cell phone is personal technology. Africa Leads the World in Creative Use of Cellphone Technology. Smart phones require smart communication strategies. How A $20 Tablet Will Change The World. 20 Awesome BYOD and Mobile Learning Apps. We have now been Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) for three years, and boy, do the students bring it. They bring it all! We have iPads, Surface, iPhones, Droids, Chromebooks, Macs, and PC laptops.
Here's my current thinking. Please share yours in the comments section below. Note Taking If students can't find, review, and access their notes or pictures of the board, their mobile note-taking system is useless. Microsoft OneNote In my opinion, the most robust single note-taking app is Microsoft OneNote because it looks just like a traditional notebook. Evernote Evernote is a multiplatform app, but you cannot edit simultaneously.
The premium version searches handwritten text so that photos of the board or your notes can actually be found later. eBooks With ebooks as the current battleground of education technology, students should know how to find and download ebooks and PDFs on Kindle, iBooks, and Kobo. Writing Traditional Essay Writing Collaborative Writing Moving Between Platforms Blogging Cloud Sync. Now, a mobile phone application to detect skin cancer. PTI Dec 22, 2013, 10.41AM IST (The app 'ClipOCam-Derma'…) KOLKATA: A mobile phone application which can assist clinicians perform fast and accurate diagnosis of skin cancers and ailments has been developed by IIT Kharagpur students. The application 'ClipOCam-Derma' which can be used on any smart-phone has been developed in the School of Medical Science and Technology at IIT, Kharagpur, led by research scholar Debdoot Sheet.
"Being a portable and affordable solution, it can be used by trained health care workers to reach out to elderly and patients in mobility restricted areas for health care delivery," Sheet told PTI. The mobile app, which will be launched in the market after regulatory approvals, can help physicians speed up diagnosis and handle more patients within a shorter time. The innovation has won the 'GE Edison Challenge 2013' recently in Bangalore and has been awarded an incubation prize of Rs 10 lakhs. The computer you can roll up: Developers make SGT breakthrough. New 'Source Gated Transistor' is much easier to produce for smart gadgetsResearchers at University of Surrey collaborated with Phillips in creationDiscovery could mean flexible tablets and much smaller technologyThese new technologies could be available in the next few years By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:03 GMT, 6 March 2014 | Updated: 11:00 GMT, 7 March 2014 Love your tablet computer, but sometimes wish you just could roll it up like a newspaper and stick it away in your pocket?
Soon exactly this will be possible, thanks to a breakthrough in the technology which allows electronic gadgets to be folded up or bent. Until now, these intricate computer components – thin plastic sheets of electronic circuits, similar to sheets of paper – were only available in very small quantities in laboratories and limited to certain types of devices. It means flexible tablets could be widely available in the near future, the journal Scientific Reports said. Cicret projects emails, videos and games onto skin. Concept Cicret bracelet is designed to replace a smartphone or tabletUsing a projector, it could project a screen onto the forearmAn array of eight sensors will allow a wearer to manipulate the 'screen'Bracelet could be used to watch films, write emails and make phone callsPrototype's due to be unveiled and bracelet could hit shop shelves in JuneIt's likely to cost £300, come in two sizes and a choice of 10 colours By Sarah Griffiths for MailOnline Published: 12:14 GMT, 12 December 2014 | Updated: 20:32 GMT, 12 December 2014 From Apple’s forthcoming smartwatch to the Fitbit, there is fierce competition to get consumers hooked on wearable devices.
And soon there will be a bracelet that turns your skin into a touchscreen using a tiny built-in projector. Wearers of the of the Cicret bracelet will be able to check an email or watch a film that’s projected onto their forearm, and control the picture by using their skin like a touchscreen. A rival for the Apple Watch? Aim: To replace a smartphone. 5 App and Mobile Use Guides for Parents. Today, kids of all ages are using mobile devices for learning, to communicate with friends, to surf the web, and to play. In fact, a 2013 Common Sense research study found that 75 percent of children 8 years old or younger had access to a "smart" mobile device at home.
For teens, mobile use is near ubiquitous; almost 80 percent own a cell phone and three-quarters use mobile devices to access the internet, according to findings from a 2013 Pew Research survey. Apps and mobile devices can be great tools for helping families play, learn, and connect together; though, as a parent, it can be a challenge to know where to start. You likely have questions and concerns about how your children are using these devices. How much screen time is too much? At what age should we introduce mobile devices to our children?
If you're looking for information, these five guides and resources are wonderful sources. Useful Articles for Learning More We'd love to hear from parents. Mobile Learning Support for New Teachers. The mobile learning revolution is alive and growing in popularity every day. When schools move toward mobile learning in the classroom, they can take advantage of electronic devices such as tablets and cell phones that offer portability and ease of use. Mobile learning technologies can offer teachers a flexible approach to learning with their students in a variety of locations, and encourage this learning to continue at home. As schools begin to consider the movement towards mobile learning, it's important to support teachers with strategies for success, particularly if they are new. As I began to research this topic I was disappointed to discover that resources for supporting new teacher use of mobile learning strategies weren't easily accessible.
So I reached out to my friend Lisa Nielsen and her co-author Willyn Webb to share with us how a new teacher might begin to use mobile learning in the classroom. Lisa Nielsen and Willyn Webb Success doesn't just happen. 1) Notify Parents. Extracurricular Learning: Media as a Medium in Education | Edutopia. Mizuko Ito, a research scientist at the University of Southern California, is coeditor of Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life (MIT Press), a new book that looks at the use of portable electronics by Japanese students. She also was one of several researchers to receive a $3.3 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to study children's use of digital media and its implications for education here in the United States. We spoke to Ito about her work and its implications for American classrooms.
What makes your work different from traditional educational research? I focus on learning and technology use outside of schools. I look at settings like game play or online discussions, where kids are doing things on their own terms, not being held accountable to explicit educational goals, and see what they're learning. What's a good example of kids learning on their own? How are American youth similar to Japanese kids in their use of digital technology?
Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom. Updated 01/2014 If I had thirty iPads in my class, what would I do with them? How would I use them to help my students learn better and help me teach better? Perhaps a better question is what would I do with them that I could not do with other tools that are available and cheaper? Certainly iPads are cheaper than computers, desktop or laptop, and they are more mobile. Speaking of computers, they were supposed to be the transformation of teaching and learning as we know it. Kinesthetic Learners The iPad has a number of unique features that provide for interesting possibilities in teaching and learning. As a completely portable learning tool, the iPad camera allows documentation to be taken to a whole different level. Students can also attach videos, and voice recordings to their field notes. In math class the GPS of the iPad establishes locale in ways that are profound.
Connecting Beyond the Classroom How do you use iPads in the classroom to help teaching and learning? Personalized Learning, Big Data and Schools | Edutopia. The Best Buy back to school commercial, "Lidia Marin," highlights personalization and customization. The viewer finds out that Lidia Marin, a marine biology major, loves marine biology and has a dream to be a marine biologist.
Lidia and a Best Buy salesperson enter the dreamlike world of Best Buy, which promises to find "what's perfect" for Lidia. The message: Best Buy is committed to doing everything it takes to meet the needs of the consumer, and the store is built for personalization and customization. Google just announced that it is introducing "new voice searches that let you ask questions about . . . you" to aggregate your wants and needs from travel and shopping to photos and calendars.
How does Google do it? The Age of Personalization Simply put, we live in an age of personalization and customization -- and companies know it and are gearing their efforts to serve our needs in the way they think we want to be served. However, this doctor is ahead of the curve. Big Data Schooling. Left Bank Learning: When "Work Time" Becomes "Studio Time" It's All in the Thumbs: What David Hockney Can Teach Schools About Technology.
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