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"Stand outside any U.S. high school at dismissal time and face the doors. As you watch the students file out, you will see them pull out all sorts of devices—most of them banned in school— and get on with the way they live their lives, often viewing school as nothing more than a necessary evil in an otherwise modern life. For most students, the tools and talents they employ outside of school have little place in their academic classes. "

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Cell Phones in Education Part 4: Learning on Location « The Mobile Learner

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02 Dec 09

I Don’t Need Your Network (or Your Computer, or Your Tech Plan, or Your…)

"I’ve been thinking a lot again about phones and about the disruption they are already creating for most schools (high schools at least) and about the huge brain shift we’re going to have to through collectively to capture the potential for learning in our kids’ pockets. "

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01 Dec 09

Why Teachers Must Go Mobile

a former teacher turned mobile phone expert encourages teachers to use cell phones in lessons

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09 Nov 09

Pockets of Potential- Using mobile technologies to promote learning

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03 Nov 09

Pender teacher's lesson plan a fusion of technology and literature | StarNewsOnline.com | Star News | Wilmington, NC

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22 Oct 09

Cellphonometry: Can Kids Really Learn Math From Smartphones? | Fast Company

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Doug's PD Wiki / iPod and iPhone in the Classroom

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16 Oct 09

Bloggin’ & Poddin’ with Michelle

a blog about how a teacher is using ipods in the classroom

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15 Oct 09

Engage Your Audience | Text The Mob

"The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your audience:
Project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly!"

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05 Oct 09

Leadership + Mobile Technologies = Educational Benefits

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It takes leaders to make technology truly disruptive. It takes leaders to see how to take a technology and gain benefit from it
Education needs some disruptions. Education needs some of the benefits that accrue when leaders step up and see opportunities and take risks on new ideas and new technologies. More of the same will result in more of the same. Longer school days? More of the same. Electronic whiteboards, or EWBs? More of the same. (EWBs could be used in a disruptive manner, but they tend to be used to support teacher-centric, stand-in-the-front-of-the-classroom instructional strategies.)
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- So what opportunities are potentially disruptive?
- K12 needs to integrate cell phones into its classrooms.” Remember: Cell phones are, first and foremost, just computers, albeit small ones, that have radios that enable those computers to make voice calls and send texts. Turn off that radio and stop 90 percent of problems that cell phones cause in school. And stop worrying that the screen and keyboard are too small. Those are adult concerns; they are not roadblocks for America’s texting-adept youth. Indeed, the mobile generation sees the fits-in-your-pocket screen and keyboard as positive features, not annoying bugs.
- cell phones are an essential tool outside of the classroom
- With the costs for mobile technologies continuing to plummet, American education can finally realize the dream of 1:1, with each child having his or her own (mobile) computer for use 24/7. And that computer is connected, instantly and always, to the World Wide Web. This is an unprecedented, never-before-experienced opportunity. Increase the opportunities for learning—not hours in a school—and we will see a doubling of achievement. Notice too that the digital divide just evaporated. All children—rich, poor, urban, suburban, talented and gifted, struggling—have the same access 24/7.
  It is inevitable that cell phone computers will be an essential component of the K12 classroom. We need to use the tools of the 21st century to teach 21st-century skills and content. The only question is this: When will educational leaders stand up and adopt this disruptive technology? Being a leader now brings benefits to your students now. Sooner or later? Your decision.

28 Sep 09

iPod Literacy- Using the iPod in the classroom and for staff development

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23 Sep 09

Individualized Assessment on an iPod Touch Using Google Docs – via gWhiz MLA » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

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22 Sep 09

Use iPod Touch to Assess Reading

Reading teachers around the country can now transform their iPod Touch into a tool for diagnosing, assessing and improving student reading skills. Pearson, the education and technology company, today announced that its DRA2 Handheld - Tango Software Edition is available for Apple's popular handheld device.

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