Mobile Behavior: an Omnicom Group Company Home People Blog Work Events Press About Us May 12, 2010 by Caleb Embracing Mobile To Educate For Tomorrow The classroom was traditionally a controlled environment; when wireless technology began to invade, skewing the rules of time and space, teachers panicked. But while mobile phones have been  blamed for an increase in exam cheating ,  SMS has been praised for helping students learn to spell. Cellphones" are now "mobile devices," their evolution brought them from being a simple social tool to a powerful digital Swiss Army knife. MORE >>

Offering hundreds of three-minute audio lessons and SMS quizzes for less than 4p, Janala – meaning "window" – provides low-cost education through handsets – in a country where English is not as widely spoken as elsewhere in Asia. Posted by Mercedes Bunz Wednesday 17 February 2010 07.00 GMT on Wednesday 17 February 2010. GMT on Wednesday 17 February 2010. Live EastEnders watched by 15.6m | TV ratings – 19 February 2010 (16) MediaGuardian on Twitter Follow the latest tweets about the BBC from the MediaGuardian team mgmediamonkey: Mayday! GMT guardian.co.uk MORE >>

Loading mentions Retweet Filed under // Educational Leadership Mobile Computing School Leadership Comments [0] February 11, 2010 Stop Bullying in its tracks with Bullyproof - free open source SMS incident reporting software Brendan O'Keefe has developed free open source SMS incident reporting software. They change their high school cell phone policies to allow for limited use throughout the school day and spend time educating students how to use handheld deives in a socially responsable way. have worked in education for about 25 years. How will they be supported? MORE >>

Is it going to be rich content that includes multi-media (images, audio, video), the chance to interact with others via social networking, and access to web resources? Or are you going to focus your learners on discrete content such as quizzes, polls, SMS, simple games, and apps? Given the danger of assuming that mobile learning only means SMS or apps, it makes sense to at least explore rich content options, and to refer your learners to these both for in class work, and for out of class self study. Don’t make the mistake of thinking mobile=apps, or mobile=SMS. MORE >>

With twitter, mobile msn, and sms rushing through our lives, and knowledge growing exponentially, one could wonder if we pick up content in a more and more abridged form and whether this is affecting our learning. found myself rushing through much more than just those short messages, I was skimming articles, skimming posts, skimming social media, skimming newspapers, skimming… everything but my milk. In the Big Question launched by Tony Karrer this month , he wonders how we look at instruction in an information snacking culture of skimming content. Staying alive! MORE >>