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Come to the Mobile Learning Experience in September 2013

The Mobile Native

Cross Post from @TonyVincent "Learning in Hand" It''s my pleasure to be on the team organizing Mobile Learning Experience 2013. If you''d like to get a feel for 2012''s conference, then check out the Mobile 2012 Program and Mobile 2012 Speakers'' Resource Wiki. Please consider presenting at Mobile 2013.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates.

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How Technology Is Harming Your Child’s Development … Or Is It?

Securly

By age 4 , many children already own their own mobile device. Research (especially from 2010-2013) has linked rising numbers of childhood obesity, disrupted sleep patterns, and under-developed motor/cognitive function to device usage. Essentially, moderation is the crux of the matter!

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Microsoft’s Big Bett Updates: Free VR Curriculum and Using a Pencil as a Stylus

Edsurge

Image credit: Microsoft) In addition, an update to the Teams mobile app will let teachers grade assignments from iOS and Android phones. Justin Chando, now a product manager for Teams for Education, hails from Chalkup , a company he founded in 2013 to build classroom collaboration software. Company officials won’t say that on record.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

Inside Castlemont’s media center in May 2021, Chromebook carts are completely empty. In the early days of the pandemic, every Chromebook on campus was lent out to students during remote learning. Jen Bender, the data tech lead at Castlemont High School, gives a new student her #OaklandUndivided Chromebook and hot spot in May 2021.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Innovative Interactive Presentation Tools to Bring Your Classroom to Life by Bryan Miller Interactive response systems have evolved from the formal clickers, to now operating on mobile devices. Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices.

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

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We’re very interested in having the mobile technology used outside the classroom where so much learning takes place,” says Hiram president Lori Varlotta. One of the first to try it was Lynn University , in Boca Raton, Florida, which launched its own iPad initiative in 2013. They help you explore the topic more deeply,” she says. “In

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