Google glasses. Tips and take-aways from a successful mobile learning program. Scaling up, teaching acceptable use early on will help guarantee success, one district says By Laura Devaney, Managing EditorRead more by Laura Devaney November 12th, 2012 Student engagement saw a boost from the mobile learning program.
(Photo from Starting small might be the key to success when it comes to deploying a mobile learning initiative, according to two educators whose district has implemented a successful mobile program that now reaches 500 students. “We felt that if it was something that was going to catch on, we wanted to be sure that we started small and that it was as group of people who wanted to work at this,” said Kyle Menchhofer, technology director for the St. In 2008, before smart phones caught on, the district started its pilot by purchasing personal digital assistants (PDAs). “The biggest thing is starting out small,” said Scott Newcomb, a fifth grade teacher in the district. “We didn’t want to create additional work for our teachers,” Menchhofer said. FOR TEACHERS for students - Home. The Future of Education - Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked World.
How to Use Learnist on the Web. Story Structure Charts. 26 free apps for teachers - Education. Forums — iPhone and iPad optimized forum browser. ELI7036.pdf. Vision. Featured tool Readiness Assessment - The Readiness Assessment/Rubric featured on this site is based on review of the Technology Standards & Performance Indicators for Students & Teachers (ISTE NETS-S, ISTE NETS-T), the North Carolina IMPACT guidelines, Texas Star Chart, North Carolina Essential Standards for Instructional Technology, North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards, and North Carolina Learning Technology Initiative (NCLTI).
Further development of the Readiness Assessment/Rubric to make it mobile and interactive is under way with funding from Lenovo. It is essential to begin any new initiative or plan by establishing a common, shared vision to create buy-in and engage stakeholders. Through the visioning process consensus building will assist in developing the goals, rationale and core principles for the initiative approach.
It is beneficial for stakeholders to see the vision early and modeled throughout. Guiding Questions. A Great Way to Use Google Docs with your Students. One of my first posts here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning was about Google Docs in Education and by the time I wrote and published it, Google Docs was still not popular and did not have the advanced features it has now.
Since then, many articles have been published on this topic and one of the most popular of them all was Google Docs 52 Secrets Educators Need to Know about. I am personally impressed by the power of this service and the several things we can achieve by using it. I always urge my students to use it to create presentations, docs, slideshows, spreadsheets and many more. Google Docs has a huge and promising potential in education and the proof is the video I embedded below which shows how Mr Hanish uses Google Docs to handle group work with his students. QR Codes_46 Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes to Support Learning.
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education. 10 of the best apps for education. About Ning - Product Features. MOOCs. Game Theory. SETDA urges shift to digital instruction. The report acknowledges that policy changes regarding instructional materials are not enough to ensure that digital content is used in classrooms effectively.
Everyone remembers lugging a 20-pound textbook. But should today’s students still have to consult hefty—and often outdated—printed texts? And should states and districts still pay for resources that few students now find relevant? A new report says “no”—and it urges states and districts to stop delaying the inevitable shift from print to digital instruction. It also provides examples of how some states are making this shift and overcoming the hurdles this involves. The report, “Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age,” is produced by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. For more news about digital instruction, see: Albuquerque schools embrace ‘techbooks’ instead of textbooks States moving slowly toward digital textbooks.
TitanPad. Bloomin' Apps. This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.I have created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others.
Cogs of the Cognitive Processes I began to think about the triangular shape of Bloom's Taxonomy and realized I thought of it a bit differently.Since the cognitive processes are meant to be used when necessary, and any learner goes in and out of the each level as they acquire new content and turn it into knowledge, I created a different type of image that showcased my thoughts about Bloom's more meaningfully.Here is my visual which showcases the interlocking nature of the cognitive processes or, simply, the "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes". Video Slideshow Maker with Music. EduTecher.net - explore. share. contribute. Voki Home.