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Smartphones Meet Adult Education

Digital Promise

Mobile technologies allow adult learners to study anytime, anywhere, extending their learning far beyond classroom hours. Watch this recorded webinar to hear from teachers and learners themselves about how one mobile app, Learning Upgrade , is moving the needle for English language learners.

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Streamlining BYOD With ClassLink

A Principal's Reflections

Mobile learning devices (i.e. Smartphones and Internet accessible devices have been used by students to conduct web-based research, take notes using Evernote , manage work through Google Docs or Dropbox , organize their assignments on their calendars, and develop projects with a variety of other tools.

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The Path to Full Tech Integration: From the First Conversation to Powerful Learner Use

Digital Promise

Many jobs, services, and even cars now use touchscreen interfaces, so technology skills learned on a smartphone or tablet are particularly transferable to all manner of everyday situations. This matches the reality for adult learners: most often, their only connection to the internet is a smartphone.

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And the top e-learning trends for 2016 are.

Neo LMS

First, mobile learning. Sure, there were lots of devices released in 2014 and the years before, but 2015 was the mobile age. It was the age where almost everyone owned a smartphone - whether it was Android, Apple or Windows Phone. Just to get things going, here’s a recap of 2015. Second, the introduction of gamification.

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Vector Solutions Adds Silent Panic Alarm Feature to its LiveSafe Tip Reporting and Safety Communications Platform for Schools

eSchool News

The law requires schools to implement mobile panic alarms that go directly to law enforcement in case of immediate emergencies such as an active shooter situation. Vector LiveSafe is an advanced tip reporting and safety communication platform for organizations, including schools. For more information about Vector LiveSafe, visit [link].

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Using Cell Phones and Other Devices In and Out of the Classroom

The Mobile Native

edWeb Community: www.edWeb.net/mobilelead webinar location: www.instantpresenter.com/edwebnet3 Presenters : Scott Newcomb, 5 th Grade Teacher, and Kyle Menchhofer, Technology Coordinator, at St. Marys City Schools is the longest running mobile learning program in the country. He has conducted mobile learning webinars for Classroom 2.0

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iPads, Chromebooks, and the Process of Writing with Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher

So what could writing look like when a writing mindset is applied to mobile technologies? However, while that process has not necessarily changed, the associated tasks and procedures have the potential to be transformed given the functional capabilities of iPads, Chromebooks, laptops, and smartphones.