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Smartphones in Education: Redirecting Distraction with Mobile Learning

ViewSonic Education

As mobile learning becomes more and more popular, so does the potential for distraction in the classroom. With so many captivating apps and games, it is easy to see how students would have a hard time putting their smartphones and other mobile devices away. Assess Learning and Stay Organized.

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Speak Up 2020: A look at digital learning and transformation

eSchool News

In a recent edWeb edLeader Panel sponsored by Project Tomorrow , Dr. Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Christina Fleming, Vice President of Blackboard K12, presented the Speak Up 2019-2020 National Findings titled D igital Learning During the Pandemic: Emerging Evidence of an Education Transformation.

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5 tech devices that should be part of all classrooms

Neo LMS

Mobile devices and WIFI. All tablets — because most people think of tablets as the mobile devices in classrooms and very few think of smartphones — can be used for homework, as well as classwork. Tablets are on their way of becoming the classic notebooks of students. Display technologies. Document cameras.

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5 tech devices that should be part of all classrooms

Neo LMS

Mobile devices and WIFI. All tablets — because most people think of tablets as the mobile devices in classrooms and very few think of smartphones — can be used for homework, ass well as classwork. Tablets are on their way of becoming the classic notebooks of students. Display technologies. Document cameras.

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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

Some people even lobby for a right to technology for every student, in the hope of making the presence of laptops and tablets in classrooms as spread as that of blackboards and notebooks. E-learning is mobile. Kids live in the same world as we do, and they keep up pretty well in terms of mobile devices ownership.

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Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

They can be uploaded to Google Classroom, Schoology, Blackboard, and a selection of other LMSs. Students join with a free Study.com account that can be accessed with mobile apps (with the exception of proctored exams). These can be pushed out as links to Google Classroom, Blackboard, Schoology, and other LMSs. Great stuff.

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Be Mobile, Don’t Travel: Tips for Surviving without a Classroom by H. E. James

TeacherCast

Instead of worrying about having to travel, think about being mobile, in more than one sense of the word. I didn’t teach in the age of mobile tech, which made it more difficult to be the mobile teacher I wanted to be instead of just “the teacher with the cart.”. Advanced Mobility. According to U.S. The Basics.