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Offline Activities with Mobile Devices

Teacher Reboot Camp

Even without an Internet connection students learn a lot with mobile devices, laptops, and other technologies. Offline activities with mobile devices from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. When they are connected to the Internet they can add to a Padlet or the class virtual learning environment (VLE). ~ Pooja Jaisingh. Activities.

Mobility 219
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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

They require a student show photo identification to their laptop camera before the test begins. It then matches that data that to the student's "biometric faceprint" captured by the laptop camera. Schools using radio-trackers on students' ID cards and monitoring students' mobile phones to make sure they're in class.

Software 141
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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. At my university it has got to the stage that I only use my own personal laptop connected to wifi network. Innovations and going beyond the VLE. The issue of control has got completely out of hand. This is core to my ability to innovate. Corporate Refugees.

VLE 32