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Mobile Learning Experience 2012 - April 11-13 in Phoenix, Arizona

The Mobile Native

Cross Post From Tony Vincent''s Learning in Hand Interested in iPad, iPod touch, tablets, netbooks, laptops, phones, apps, podcasting, Android, iOS, and web-based tools? Excited about mobile technology for learning and teaching? Want to connect with other educators and learn from their successes and challenges?

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Making a Global Impact in Education: An Interview with Karl Mehta, CEO of EdCast

EdNews Daily

The open source network provides learners with the opportunity to garner knowledge in both formal and informal learning settings. EdCast Knowledge Networks TM power social, mobile and cloud-based learning for influential institutions, enterprises, governments and nonprofits and enables millions of lifelong learners to collaborate.

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At the end of our tether

Learning with 'e's

What does mobile technology have to do with academic freedom? A person's freedom of learning is part of his freedom of thought, even more basic that his freedom of speech.' Holt could easily have gone on to argue that freedom of learning should also include choice of location. Should education go completely mobile?

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10 Ways Interactive Touch Screen Displays Improve Education

ViewSonic Education

Advanced learners can collaborate with classmates on more complex lessons at the display. Students with mobility challenges may not be able to participate at a wall-mounted display. For instance, they discussed the correct answers… and they willingly helped their partners if they did not know the correct answer.

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Maybe Not Tomorrow, but When?

The Principal of Change

In my own experience, I have seen more schools open up sites like YouTube, and encourage students to not only bring their mobile devices, but encourage them to use them in meaningful ways for learning. It should not be teaching plus a mobile device, but it should significantly change the way learning looks like in the organization.

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On the Horizon: Harnessing Emerging Technologies in Education #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Notes from opening session of SXSWedu 2012. The world of work is increasingly global and increasingly collaborative. People expect to work learn socialize and play wherever they are. The internet is becoming a global mobile network and already is at its edges. How much education could be delivered through these mobiles?

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

The quotation is from 2012. Indeed, according to the latest statistics from the Department of Education – now granted, this is from the 2012–2013 academic year – there are 4726 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States. 2012 – the phones too big for their pockets. And the Internet?

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