Please Turn on Your Cell Phone. It might surprise you to learn that students from New York City’s most impoverished neighborhoods arrive at school each day with personal computers.
The problem is that they deposit these powerful learning tools at the nearby bodega — where they’re held like a coat check service for a dollar a day — because their personal computers are cell phones, and they are banned by New York City’s school chancellor, Joel Klein. Many students will circumvent the ban by blind-texting from their backpacks or from the bathroom. But it’s not that simple for those who have to pass through metal detectors and scanners to gain entry into the school building each day. The rationale for the cell phone ban will not surprise you: critics claim the phones are distracting, can be used to cheat and add no educational value.
In a speech to the National Urban League, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, “You come to school to learn, not to play games or send text messages.” Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia. You are not logged in. [] [] By Zoraini Wati AbasSeptember 18, 2011 Zoraini Wati Abas, Ed.D.
Faculty of Education and Languages Open University Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Email: zoraini@oum.edu.my, zoraini@gmail.com Overview Mobile learning (m-learning) at the Open University Malaysia (OUM) started in 2008 when the m-learning team comprising 16 academic staff from various faculties was formed. When the m-learning group was first formed, it was felt that we needed assurance that OUM learners were indeed ready for m-learning.
The survey was carried out in more than 40 OUM learning centers throughout the nation with close to 3,000 respondents. With this, OUM piloted a series of ten-minute podcasts in January 2009 but due to technical challenges, production of the podcasts had to be stopped. Today, with the proliferation of tablet computers such as the iPad and Galaxy Tab, OUM is considering using them as a learning device on OUM course modules can be easily downloaded into. Comments Paul. Top Mobile Learning Case Studies Studies Content for Thu.Jul 28, 2011. How 5 Non-Profits Are Innovating With Mobile. Holly Ross is the executive director of NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network, where she helps her members put technology to use for social change.
You can follow her on Twitter at @ntenhross and read the NTEN blog. Even before that first cup of coffee, an increasing number of us are reaching for our mobile phones in the morning. That makes mobile the perfect fit for non-profits that want to capitalize on every and any moment an individual is inspired to act on behalf of a cause. While the Red Cross made text-to-give campaigns famous after the Haiti earthquake, there are a variety of additional opportunities to use mobile to engage your audience in a cause. In fact, it doesn’t take an expensive investment in a custom built application to make mobile work. Non-profits, both large and small, are using mobile to educate, activate, and engage audiences of all sizes. 1.
As it turns out, you don’t have to head to the Bronx Zoo to find wildlife in New York City. 2. Mobile learning for schools - a class without walls. Part of the old steelworks still stands near Parkwood academy, Sheffield.
It's a reminder of the old factories and the newer industrial units that provide rich opportunities for year 7 students to study how the demise of manufacturing has affected their city. In a project entitled My Surroundings, students went out into their community, taking photographs, shooting films in their locality and making maps, using handheld and other mobile technologies. It helped them to consider why, many years ago, Sheffield was built where it was. "Pupils looked at the positive and negative aspects of the steel industry and how things have changed since [the factories] closed," says Derryth Hope, Parkwood's vice-principal. The project comprised history and geography and led pupils to develop written and spoken language skills as they worked on presentations.
Impressive improvement Jake Smithies, now 14, was among the first cohort of students to be taught using the new curriculum. Hard evidence. Top Mobile Learning Case Studies Studies Content for Thu.Jul 28, 2011.