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Smartphones in the classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Luckily, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Andrew Carroll, former High School teacher, has a great analysis of the problem and discussion of solutions below: How to control smartphone usage in classroom? It’s a smartphone that your students are using. We are all aware of the negative impacts of smartphones.

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Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career

Ask a Tech Teacher

Smartphone Choices A smartphone is almost as essential as a laptop in the modern landscape. Features beneficial for both students and professionals, like good camera quality for online presentations and robust performance for multitasking, should be considered. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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Smartphones in the classroom: friend or foe?

Neo LMS

But with today’s smartphones, can this still be the case? In the pre-smartphone era, when traditional mobile phones – or “dumb phones”, how I like to call them – ruled the world, students simply couldn’t use their phones for learning. Fast forward to the present day. Smartphones and the AIDA approach.

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Option 3: Actually USE the smartphones

Dangerously Irrelevant

The accepted dichotomy in this study and the media seems to be 1) doing low-level knowledge work while smartphones are banned, or 2) doing low-level knowledge work while smartphones are present (and, presumably, distracting). (if they did, how sad is that?). They just have different opportunities and resources. Related Posts.

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What is a Stylus Pen?

ViewSonic Education

This includes various digital devices like touchscreen computer monitors , smartphones, or tablets. Therefore, you’ll see passive pens being used mainly with interactive flat panel displays and smartphones for more basic needs. This can be especially beneficial when it comes to participating or presenting during meetings. .

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12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence

Ask a Tech Teacher

Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone and iPad. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today , and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. Does it display properly?

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Remotely Control Your Google Drive Presentations Using Your Smartphone

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

April, 2015 Presentation Remote is a Chrome app that allows you to use your smartphone to remotely control your presentations on Google Drive, Prezi, Scribd, Slideshare and Dropbox. Of course, to be.read more. google docs'