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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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Mobile learning: The good and the bad

Neo LMS

Everywhere we go, here and there, people always seem to have a mobile device in their hands, be it a smartphone or a tablet. It’s almost a sin not to own a mobile device. Our mobile devices are online 24/7. Now owning a smartphone is like losing half our lives. Mobile learning of course.

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Top 10 Benefits of Using YouTube in the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

Even the camera on your smartphone may help generate instructional movies, allowing you to avoid a significant amount of money while fulfilling your role as an instructor. Microlearning and mobile technology. The production cost of an instructional film is often far lower than that of a Hollywood-worthy video.

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8 Wonderful Websites for Easy Coding Activities for Any Age or Level!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Now I’m a technology teacher for elementary students and I’ve noticed that many love using computers, laptops, mobiles, and other technologies to play games, watch videos, or take pictures, but most students use technology without appreciating how the technology works or does what we want it to.

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Permanently Disrupting Education. With Smartphones.

TeachThought - Learn better.

With Smartphones. Access for everyone to everything, a principal the Khan Academy is built on. Modern smartphones have the chance to change all of this. Through smartphone implantation, power, pace, and patterns are decentralized, from institutions and educators to individual learners. by Terry Heick. They tweet.

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What are the Most Popular Classroom Technologies in 2020?

EdNews Daily

Teachers may ask the students to access the site or download its app on their smartphones. Available as a web-based app as well as mobile apps for iOS and Android devices, GooseChase EDU helps teachers create scavenger hunts with clues. Students may also download its Android or iOS app on their smartphones.

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6 Easy ways to make e-learning fun

Neo LMS

There are of some things that everyone needs to know, teachers especially, in order to upgrade your e-learning: Mobilize your learning It would be an understatement to say that mobile devices are everywhere. Smartphones and tablets in classrooms can be used to enhance collaboration between students. They’re virtually ubiquitous.

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