Pew Internet: Mobile Highlights of the Pew Internet Project’s research related to mobile technology. (Note: This page will be updated whenever new data is available.) As of October 2014: 64% of American adults own a smartphone. As of January 2014: 90% of American adults own a cell phone32% of American adults own an e-reader42% of American adults own a tablet computer For the data behind device ownership trends, please visit our device ownership key indicator page. Some smartphone owners — particularly younger adults, minorities and lower-income Americans — depend on their smartphone for internet access. For more information on U.S. smartphone ownership, visit this in-depth report. 67% of cell owners find themselves checking their phone for messages, alerts, or calls — even when they don’t notice their phone ringing or vibrating. 44% of cell owners have slept with their phone next to their bed because they wanted to make sure they didn’t miss any calls, text messages, or other updates during the night. Location:
App Spotlight: eClicker Jeff sits down with the Big Nerd Ranch to talk about their app eClicker. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Developed for smartphones and laptops, eClicker leverages the hardware already in the hands of many students providing a lowcost polling solution for the classroom. All you need to get started is the eClicker Host app running on an iOS device, a Wi-Fi network, and students with internet-enabled devices to participate. Features Wi-Fi based classroom response system for up to 64 clients*Students can participate with any internet-enabled deviceEdit questions on your computer or iOS deviceAdd images to questions or draw your ownShare question sets with other teachers via Bluetooth**Poll questions one-at-a-time or back-to-backReview historical polling data and email reports * 32 clients on the iPhone or iPod touch ** feature not supported on the first generation iPhone and iPod touch The eClicker system is made up of of two parts: the host and the client(s).
College Students To Tweet Even More In Class As Social Media Becomes A Major Retweet this if you want extra credit. That idea may not be too farfetched because according to the local Fox channel 57 in Columbia, SC, South Carolina's Newberry College is pushing the envelope of tech education, and will allow its students to major in social media. The kids will learn all about it, and how to use it, apparently...because all that time spent on their iPhones or home PCs using Facebook and Twitter and Instagram isn't enough of an education all of its own. Check out the news clip below to have your social world turned as upside down as a keg stand: Now, we agree that Web 2.0 (if we can use so outmoded a phrase) is all about the social experience of the web, with a side serving of revolution in mobile social Net access. Obama leveraged Facebook to win an election, social media sites break news, and important info like earthquake alerts before the mainstream media has even warmed up its cameras, and heck, even his Pope-iness himself has taken to Twitter.
An eBay For Professors To Sell College Courses Directly To Students In yet another step toward democratizing higher education, StraighterLine, a pioneering provider of accredited, low-cost, self-paced online college courses, has started a new feature called "Professor Direct." The program--which will be eligible for college credit through the American Council on Education--gives professors the option to teach courses directly to students. The first batch of StraighterLine professors themselves hold degrees from universities ranging from Columbia to the University of Phoenix. One, Jerry Israel, is a retired college president interested in the future of higher ed; many others are adjuncts who teach on a freelance and part-time basis both online and in-person around the country. They’ll be teaching based on StraighterLine’s few dozen self-paced offerings--15 new courses were announced for launch--ranging from humanities and general ed requirements to business, science, and remedial math and English.
Does Mobile Learning Work? With more than 700,000 apps in Apple’s app store, mobile content is here to stay. But the jury remains out on just how effective mobile learning is. Todd Richmond, director of advanced prototype development and transition at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, said his gut feeling is that what a user gets out of mobile learning depends on the user. Among mobile devices, desktops and laptops, there will always be tradeoffs in convenience, computing power and multimedia capabilities. Jan Cannon-Bowers, research director of University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, said the convenience of mobile learning makes it useful for refresher training in rare procedures. “There are emergency procedures that do not occur often, but require a certain skill set,” she said. But is it possible to have too much of a good thing? “We do this all the time.
The mLearning Revolution Blog » 8 Things we MUST do in 2013 to seize the potential of mLearning 2012 has been an amazing year for mobile! This year we have seen technology companies introduce a myriad of mobile devices of all sizes, prices and operating systems. In 2012 Apple announced the iPhone 5, two new iPads and the new iPad mini; Google unveiled their first tablet, the nexus 7 and later the 10″ version; Amazon gave us three Kindle Fire HD tablets. Not to be outdone, Samsung announced the Galaxy Note II and the Tab Tablet, and of course Microsoft announced the Surface Tablet. Earlier this year Comscore reported that 2014 will be the year in which the number of mobile users will surpass desktop users for the first time. One final statistic I would like to include here is the fact that as of September 2012, Android alone accounted for 1.3 million activations a day, that’s roughly 39 million activations a month. In 2012 tech giants like Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Microsoft, Intel and HP posted disappointing earning results. Clearly there’s a strong technology shift happening now.
Classroom of 2020: The future is very different than you think Imagine: you wake up at 9:23 a.m. one September morning in 2020. Your alarm failed to sound and now you’re late. But don’t fret. Your commute to school consists of carrying your laptop to the kitchen table. No need for a back-to-school outfit, as you settle in wearing pyjamas. When you load today’s lecture video you don’t see your professor; instead, a classmate appears on the screen. Your classmate uses the word “atavistic” and you pause the lecture to look it up. After a while, your eyes wander to the window. If the above seems like a far-fetched prediction of what a classroom might be like in 2020, you’re behind the times. This is the brave new world of higher education, where students teach professors, technology enables digital note-passing and online courses enroll thousands of students. In an era when a student can access more information through her cellphone than a professor can consume in a lifetime, is the university as a physical place obsolete?
5 Free iPad Apps I Love Using In My Classroom My students love using their iPads for everything. Sometimes it’s hard to determine how to create activities that are meaningful and fun. Students who are encouraged to be an active participant in their learning, retain more information and are more engaged in their learning process. Listed below are 5 of my favorite app-tivities to use in my class. Wordsalad This app creates word clouds in a quick, fast, fun way! Corkulous This app is a sticky note app that allows the creater to create sticky notes on a cork style board. BingoBaker Create free printable Bingo Cards with Bingo Baker (www.bingobaker.com). Think – Pair – Share Students can use an app such as Corkulous or Notes to create their thoughts of a passage, problem, etc. JigSaw Many apps (Notes, KeyNotes, SonicPics, StoryKit, Sock Puppet etc.) will allow you use the JigSaw method in your class.
What Schools Will Look Like In The Year 2020 The Current State Of Technology In K-12 7.46K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? How many schools have a digital strategy? Find out in the current state of technology in K-12. How Online Education Has Changed In 10 Years 11.37K Views 0 Likes We all know that education, specifically online education, has come a long way in the last few years. Moving From Institutional Learning To Entrepreneurial Learning Outside of a handful of textbook conglomerates, entrepreneurship was not a concept connected to education until recently. In late 2012, start-ups are populating the educational landscape, and changing its tone completely. These start-ups, who often begin as a single platform, are altering the way people think about learning, and helpfully disrupting existing power sets in education in the process. In the video below, Jeff Brazil from the Digital Media and Learning discusses entrepreneurial learning, making more concrete the abstraction that has in the past been called, among other labels, “informal learning.” “How do you constantly look around you, all the time, for new ways, new resources, to learn new things? That’s the sense of entrepreneurship I’m talking about, that now in the networked age, gives us almost infinite possibility. “As we move into the 21st century, we have to completely rethink the works-cape and the learning-scape.
What does it mean to be a digital native? The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won. It was a bloodless conflict fought not with bullets and spears, but with iPhones and floppy disks. Now the battle between the haves and have-nots can begin. The post-millennial "digital native," a term coined by U.S. author Marc Prensky in 2001 is emerging as the globe's dominant demographic, while the "digital immigrant," becomes a relic of a previous time. The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with. Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world. Although not Luddites, the immigrants struggle more than natives to adapt to hi-tech progress. The human race and its struggle to keep up with technology The new norm Digital poverty The call of the developing world
8 Simple Tech Tips For Teachers Looking for some practical ways to get more out of your classroom tech? Check out these eight tips for ideas on how to use technology to enhance your students’ learning: 1. Take a virtual field trip – You may not be able to take your students to the Louvre in person, but you can use the web to find photos, videos, articles, and guides that let them go there virtually. Use this virtual field trip idea to connect your students to literature, art, history, science, current events, and more without ever leaving the classroom. 2. What are some tech tips that you’ve found useful? About the Author: Brian Jensen works with Dell.
50 Apps Students Will Be Using In Your Classroom 5 Useful iPhone Apps For Student Bloggers 9.43K Views 0 Likes Student blogging is a wonderful way to get into the world of online writing and learning. These iPhone apps for student bloggers will enhance their skills. 6 Interactive Storytelling Apps For Younger Students 11.39K Views 0 Likes Getting younger students to tell stories can promote a variety of different language arts skills in a way that is a lot more fun than doing grammar drills.