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Are Students Off-Task in Class on Phones? There's an App for That!

A Principal's Reflections

As the principal, I decided to implement Bring Your Own Device back in 2010 as a way to not only take advantage of student-owned devices but to also improve the learning culture through more empowerment and ownership. In Uncommon Learning , I detailed the necessary steps we took to ensure success.

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Implementing Mobile Devices With a Focus on Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The following post is a modified excerpt from Uncommon Learning. Mobile learning provides enhanced collaboration among learners, access to information, and a deeper contextualization of learning. Mobile devices offer a new and exciting avenue to engage students and promote learning while increasing academic achievement.

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Mapping mobile learning

Learning with 'e's

I have previously written on this blog about how mobile technology can give the edge and also about some of the social implications of learning on the move. That occurred in my estimation somewhere around 2010, and growth of ownership has been exponential since. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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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). affordances of mobile Web 2.0. ANDERSON, T (2003). Cochrane, T., Bateman, R.