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Educational Technology and #Mobile #Learning: A List of 20 Free Tools for Teachers to Create Awesome Presentations and Slideshows. 4G is coming – here’s what you can do with it… Mobile Learning Toolkit - Jenni Parker. Mobile Learning Toolkit. Mobile Learning and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture. Mobile-Enhanced Inquiry-Based Learning: A Collaborative Study (EDUCAUSE Quarterly)

Using Mobile Technology to Enhance Students' Educational Experiences. 25 Ways To Use iPads In The Classroom. In case you haven’t heard the news, we’re putting out a special mini-issue early next week. It’ll be available in the Edudemic Magazine iPad app and, best of all, FREE to subscribers!

If you’re not (yet) a subscriber, it’ll be just $0.99. The following is an excerpt from just one of the articles in the mini-issue. Mobile apps reshape toys and learning. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

Mobile apps reshape toys and learning

--While older generations simply had to memorize facts at school, today's children and young adults learn best by playing, often with digital gadgets, according to experts at the Sandbox Summit. Held at the MIT Media Lab, the conference brings together educators and technologists seeking ways to better reach Generations Y and Z--groups ranging from toddlers to 20 somethings--and equip them with skills for the digital lifestyle of the 21st century. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and the Classroom. Millennials: They Aren’t So Tech Savvy After All - Surprise, surprise! I've been saying this for years! BYO - next wave in the eRevolution. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – Being Practical About Mobile Learning. IQ, EQ and now VQ – Vision Intelligence. Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO mobile use. Web News : What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World? Leadership in Distance Education.

Learnlets » elearning versus mlearning. Africa’s Top Ten countries with fastest internet speeds. mEducation: How Mobile Phones Can Empower Education in the Developing World « Educational Technology Debate. Cell Phones in Social Transformation in Africa: Insights from Ongoing Research in Some African Countries - UCT OpenContent. Mobile Learning Initiatives « Educational Technology Debate. The Transition from Distance to Online Education: Perspectives from the Educational Management Horizon « Online Learning Update. How the iPad Is Changing Education.

Weekly iPad Resources and Suggestions from EdTechTeacher (4/9) Elearning versus mlearning. Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education - Stian's PhD wiki. Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education - Stian's PhD wiki. Mobile Learning: A 5th Reading List. Here are 10 of the more recent articles and blog posts that I have read concerning mobile learning.

Mobile Learning: A 5th Reading List

Links to the other 4 lists can be found at the bottom of this blog post. 1) 10 Reasons to Ban Pens and Pencils in the Class – A blog post that turns the criticisms applied to mobile devices on their heads by applying them to the ageless tools of the traditional classroom – Pens and Pencils 2) How Young is Too Young? Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Technology advancements have touched every facet of life including education.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This latter has been radically transformed and teachers who do not use social media and educational technology in their teaching no longer fit in the new system.That’s why every educator and teacher should reconsider certain values and principles . Today I am sharing with you two short videos that will hopefully change what some think about teaching. The following videos are among the top educative videos online . Watch this first one minute 40 seconds video to see the negative side of some teachers. Negative version of when i become a teacher So if you want to fit in the system and develop professionally then this is how to do it . watch this short video to learn more. positive version of when i become a teacher The 21st century teachers are characterized by certain holistic and student centered features , some of them are summarized below .

The risk taker : The Collaborator : The model : The leader : The visionary : Communication, Learning and Coaching to Drive Behavioral and Organizational Change. What is a mobile nomad?

Communication, Learning and Coaching to Drive Behavioral and Organizational Change

Always on the go lifestyle University students, like many business folks, live in an “always on the go” lifestyle- walking and chewing gum, texting and walking and chatting, multi-tasking. The Android device or iPhone is ubiquitous, always with them (and me!). Speed of “been there done that” Recently a 20 something said to me, “By the time I graduate two years from now, the information I have been taught will be old and outdated at the speed of change today.” I do get his point, but George Washington will always be our first U.S. Brian Chen of Wired Magazine wrote, “Why listen to a single source talk about a printed textbook that will inevitably be outdated in a few years? Mobile Curation is now Easier than Ever with Scoop.it for AndroidScoop. In today’s world, everything is mobile.

Mobile Curation is now Easier than Ever with Scoop.it for AndroidScoop

Sharing photos, tweets, status updates and check-ins wouldn’t be half as fun if we couldn’t do it from anywhere our busy lives took us. Though long form content creation will remain difficult to mobilize, we see mobile curation as an opportunity to take one step closer to this. Most aspects of curation are already compatible with today’s smartphones; we can read content, edit and include short-form commentary, and of course, share to various social networks with a few swipes of the finger. With this in mind, we listened to your feedback and combined all of these elements into the very first mobile curation app, Scoop.it for iPhone, which gives users a simple, efficient, and visually appealing way to curate on the go.

Today, we are very glad to announce our new Android app, which will bring mobile curation on the Scoop.it platform to all Android users. But, what’s the best thing about the Scoop.it mobile app for Android?