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With the Help of Google and SF Muni, A Bus Sets Off to Serve City's High School Dropouts

Edsurge

The organization made its mark in 2003 when they created the nation’s first county jail charter school. The idea for a mobile classroom started in 2015, as Good and his team become increasingly concerned about the conditions their students were learning in. Think of it like a portable classroom on wheels—wi-fi, bus-driver and all.

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Google+ Teacher Academy, Seattle!

The Daring Librarian

So.even though I''m very transparent about my practice and profession here and on the Twitters I kept pretty mum about the fact that I was applying to the Google Teacher Academy cause I guess I didn''t want to jinx it, humiliation, you know.the usual! teach Google? But I *have* been preaching the Google message since 2003.

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Top 12 apps for law students and the bar exam

Brainscape

Get Black’s Law Dictionary: App Store Law school app # 2: Brainscape’s web & mobile flashcards A virtually indispensable study app for law school is Brainscape, the world’s smartest study and flashcards app. You’ll be fluent in Latin before you’re through with law school!

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). ANDERSON, T (2003). affordances of mobile Web 2.0. Undergraduate Smartphone Ownership. Bateman, R.

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The future of intelligence

Learning with 'e's

In his seminal work, Natural Born Cyborgs (2003), Clark sees a future that combines the best features of human and machine, where we literally wear or physically internalise our technologies. 2003) Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence. He is right. References Clark, A. Jonassen, D.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

Rather than using their school buses to bring students to schools, the district turned its buses into mobile service providers that could deliver meals and other types of support to students, while also serving as internet connection hotspots. Arati is currently on the edtech advisory board for Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, India.

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Humanizing technology

Learning With Lucie

Remember that this was in 2003, several years before iPads and other tablet computing had been invented). A similar sense of excitement came over me as I discovered the collaborative power of Google Docs in 2006 and I quickly set up St. Albans City School to become one of the first Google Apps for Education schools in Vermont.