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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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How To Use Puzzles To Improve Concentration?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

You have to look at each piece individually and then group them based on their relationship with other elements. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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Verizon Mobile Learning Academy

The Mobile Native

New national research indicates that training teachers to integrate mobile technology into instruction may have a positive effect on students’ standardized test scores and academic achievement. Six schools, each of them near a school in the VILS program, were in the control group. ISTE Mobile Learning'

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Here Is How to Create An Edmodo Group for Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As a teacher, you can use Edmodo Groups to establish an online presence for your class. You can create different classes (or groups) for different school subjects. Unlike Facebook Groups, Edmodo does.read more.

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Group Texting Programs: The Next Big Wave?

Education with Technology

Group texting programs fall into two categories. The other category for group texting progams is student centered. Students can interact with each other about a learning topic. David Murphy wonders if group texting is shaping up to be the next big battleground between the Web’s social (or search) superstars.

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Advancing Mobile Phones as Learning Devices

A Principal's Reflections

Fortunately for me I have already begun to work with my staff and students to transform the teaching and learning culture at New Milford HS as it pertains to cell phones as mobile learning devices. In the rare case that a student did not have a cell phone with them my teachers would pair or group them with those that did.

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Creating Digital Books to Help Others: 20+ Apps, Tools & Ideas

Teacher Reboot Camp

Students can learn math, science and literature while helping feed others by creating cookbooks. Enhance the cookbooks by getting students to include short how to videos, images, or audio clips of interviews explaining the science, history, traditions or origins of the recipe. Books to help local museums or charities.

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