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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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Metaverse Education: What’s Next for Virtual Learning?

ViewSonic Education

Naturally, this means educators will have questions about where this technology is heading and what comes next for virtual learning. The metaverse is an emerging technological revolution, but the concept itself is nothing new. Many of these students are extremely tech-savvy as they have grown up around digital technology.

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

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But that hasn’t stopped us from asking a number of experts in education and technology to gaze into their crystal balls and share their thoughts on one major EdTech trend we can expect to see lighting up learning and one major challenge that education will face in 2016. Technology and the classroom – major trends and challenges.

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A Commitment to Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The reason for this is that we have put a premium on creating a teaching and learning culture that better meets the needs of our learners while enhancing essential skills such as collaboration, communication, creativity, media literacy, and global awareness. Students also reviewed artists’ work and tried out a few QR codes in class.

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The Passback Effect of Mobile Technology for Early Learners

BYOT Network

We have all witnessed the Passback Effect when sitting in a restaurant, and to keep a young child content and quiet, parents hand over their own technology device. This phenomenon also occurs when parents pass smartphones or tablets to their children in the backseat of the car or in a shopping cart.

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The current ways m-learning is making online education better

Neo LMS

Thanks to technology education today has come a long way since the agrarian and industrial periods it was invented in. The modern classroom is equipped with all sorts of educational technologies. Students of all ages love them almost by default. Smartphones and tablets have become useful extensions to people’s hands.

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Librarian Approved: 30 Ed-Tech Apps to Inspire Creativity and Creation

MindShift

Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work. These educators are paying attention to their own working habits, as well as those of students, to figure out which technology products and trends are here to stay.

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