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It’s Pedagogy Go With Location-Based Mobile Learning At The University Of South Australia

EdNews Daily

Mobile phones are in the hands of young people everywhere, so it is quite natural that teaching and learning opportunities are progressing towards the mobile domain. Wijers, Jonker and Drijvers (2010) highlight that the potential for engagement increases when gamification features such as rules, goals, points and activities are added.

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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

In 2015, 47 percent of K-12 teachers and almost two-thirds of K-5 teachers reported using game-based learning environments in their classes, up from 23 percent of K-12 teachers in 2010. Are easy to find and easy to access on mobile devices (53 percent). Are engaging and keeps their attention (48 percent).

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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

. - Homework can drive students to develop negative attitudes towards school and learning. Assigned homework prevents students from engaging in self-directed and independent learning. Homework can interfere with students' engagement in social activities including sports and community involvement. Dettmers, S.,

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New Year, New Adventures

A Principal's Reflections

The conference will be held on Saturday October 2, 2010. Expansion of Mobile Learning Devices: Since I played a prominent role in our current cell phone banning policy isn''t it ironic that I am now the one trying to develop innovative ways to integrate them into instruction? If you can make it, register now!

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2010 $100,000,000. Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9 Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9 2010 and 2010 ( American Recovery and Reinvesment Act [ARRA]).

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?Resource: McLeod-Shareski Book on Changing Schools

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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver Scott McLeod, and author, speaker and 2010 ISTE Outstanding Leader of the Year Dean Shareski released a book in September that describes six gaps between what most of today’s schools teach and what students and society need from them.

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Renaissance Offers Unlimited, Free Access to More Than 6,500 Digital Books and News Articles

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Teachers can also create their own custom reports sorted by state, grade, genre, and more to inform their instruction and keep students engaged with titles that thousands of their peers have read and loved before them. “In For more information, visit www.renaissance.com/literacy-engagement-center/. Evans, M., About Renaissance.