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School Is Hard for Mobile Students. These Districts Want to Help.

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—a mostly working-class suburban city just across the Mystic River from Boston—high student mobility used to be a challenge without a clear solution. The Five District Partnership , which includes Chelsea, was formed in 2012. Not all mobility is bad. And student mobility is nothing new here.

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Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

Andrea Whitmarsh, for sharing how the Greene County Public Schools in Virginia are mobilizing during these early days! Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch !

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Social Identity and Mobile Technology

Connecting 2 the World

The focus of this post is on defining social identity as it relates to mobile technology. Cell phones and mobile technology has created a new level of social identity in which a person does not have to physically be present to categorize themselves or play a role expected when they perceive themselves as part of a group.

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Distributed groups and mobile technology

Connecting 2 the World

If technology or even a vital member of the group was missing, the work of the group could be delayed for days or even weeks. While some work could be distributed, the technology still required some central coordination. How has mobile technology affected distributed groups? In addition, it was still time consuming.

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

The Mobile Native

Excited about mobile technology for learning and teaching? Then join me for Mobile Learning Experience 2012 April 11-13 in Phoenix, Arizona. It''s my pleasure to be on the team organizing Mobile Learning Experience 2012. Registration for Mobile Learning Experience 2012 is open.

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Celly Launches New Service and Android App for Building Mobile Social Networks

Educational Technology Guy

It is free to use (standard text messaging rates apply though) and anyone with a mobile phone or access to the web can use it. The new service allows users to build instant mobile social networks, called "cells" using text messages, QR Codes, email, web or the new Android App. Today, Celly is announcing a new service.

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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

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That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and this month they announced some answers. An Unusual Backstory When MIT and Harvard each invested $30 million to start edX back in 2012, it was surprising news.