Youth will not know of Microsoft DOS, Windows 3.1, 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. What better solution than to ban cellphones altogether? But while mobile phones have been  blamed for an increase in exam cheating ,  SMS has been praised for helping students learn to spell. The solution lies in perspective. At  St. MORE >>

Not that companies need to even create “games” per se; rather, the trend will be towards gamifying our standard formal learning actions and informal social interactions through the addition of point systems, achievement leveling/scaling, overall leader boards, badging systems and tangible reward/incentives. We’ve seen training completion and knowledge retention rates in game-enabled learning environments increase anywhere from 200% to more than 900% meaning more people are actively engaged and better prepared to perform their jobs. Here’s the analysis of how it all played out. MORE >>

In a much more casual way, I also try to observe how people use their mobile devices and what applications they have on those devices. We know that casual games are a huge hit and some of them are considered learning titles. “As of October 2008, there were over 1600 Mobile Learning applications in the [Apple App] store&#. “In just one week after the launch of their Android Market store, there were 24 Mobile Learning applications in stock&# , reference to Google’s recently opened Android Market Store. MORE >>

One such application was an attendance tool which automatically contacts absent students via an email they can reply directly to. Programmers at ACU went an extra step and added a game to the attendance tool, offering professors a memory challenge matching up faces with names. ACU does not have a problem recruiting students, and my understanding is that they have to reluctantly but regularly turn away applicants. Español Engadget ↓ HD Mobile Español Polska Deutschland ???? ???? ??? ???? We talked for well over an hour, and their intensity and enthusiasm never dwindled. MORE >>

result of emerging technologies in the mobile industry, mobile experiences in museums today encompass the traditional handheld audio guide, the cell phone tour, iPhone/MP3 players, and the newer multimedia handheld tour as well as a variety of mobile applications that go behind the tour model. Some museums also offer interactive games as part of their mobile phone tours, both inside the galleries and online, such as Ear for Art: Chihuly Glass CellPhone Walking Tour at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington (888-411-4220). The design of context-specific educational mobile games. MORE >>