July. Right from fun songs to learn the ABCs to the ever-popular spelling bee, games and competition have helped us generate interest in what would otherwise be routine, but necessary memorization tasks.
With mobile technology now able to handle a variety of game types, it’s not surprising to see a large number of educative mobile games to choose from as well. In the book, ‘Augmented Learning’, Eric Klopfer, Associate Professor of Education (MIT), argues for the untapped potential of mobile learning games which would leverage the strengths of a mobile platform, including “its portability, context sensitivity, connectivity, and ubiquity.” These features, Klopfer says, would make learning through mobile device games, ideal from elementary school all the way through college. The numbers speak Due in large part to the Apple iPhone, mobile games are now becoming increasingly popular, resulting in a new focus on producing innovative new technologies. TeachBytes. Pssst. How do you turn this thing on? Posted on August 08, 2011 Print this entry The Utah Personnel Development Center (UPDC) has always felt that effective use of technology in the classroom can lead to improving student engagement and achievement outcomes.
The Teacher Leadership Exploratory Consortium recently published the Teacher Leader Model Standards (www.teacherleaderstandards.org) to illuminate and support the role of teacher leadership as a vehicle to transform schools for the demands of the 21st century learner. Technology Education Know-How » Blog Archive » Captivating Ideas for Writing with Cartoons. After blogging about this before I’m sure you know by now that I’m a big advocate for using cartoons to get students writing. So, here we go again with more detail and more ideas. provides an easy tool for creating short comic strips. Half an Hour. Connectivism.