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iPods in Education Part 13: Uses in Kindergarten?
Tags: edushifts iPod in Education reflection Two articles (links provided at the end of this post) have stirred my reflective attention toward the use of an iPod or iPod Touch with Kindergarten students. I have tended to venture away from discussing the use of mobile devices for learning for children of pre-school or Kindergarten age.
The Mobile Learner
- Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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How do we change our educational institutions in view of the educational shift?
For me it implies strategically thinking about the educational future of the institute together with other colleagues in the 'educational unit'. This was my 2 cents that I put in yesterday to feed the ongoing discussion. Changing our Educational Institutions View more presentations from ignatia . Following these first debates (research unit, educational unit, management unit all by themselves in the first At ITM where I work, the time has come to look in-depth to our institutional future. For me the strongest points will be: networking and redefining
Ignatia Webs
- Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Mobile Learning: A Brief Reading List
Why an iPod Touch in Education? groups/chris/weblog/5ce29/Why_an_iPod_Touch_in_education_.html Using the iPod for Learning: A slideshare presentation from an Grace Poli, Media Specialist and Apple Distinguished Educator.
Tags: mobilelearning edushifts iPod in Education cell phone digital culture Cell Phones in Educatio To further your exploration into the world of mobile learning, here is a list of 10 blog post, articles and other musing on the topic of mobile learning that I have read recently:
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The Mobile Learner
- Monday, January 19, 2009
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Why mobile learning is on the rise and benefits diverse populations
Carly Shuler recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with an Ed.M. in Technology, Innovation and Education, where she studied how new media and emerging technologies can be used to effectively educate children. In this section she touches a point on 'Understand mobile learning as a unique element of education reform' which is VERY important in our current educational environment. In January 2009 Carly Shuler (a fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center ) came out with a fabulous paper on the benefits of mobile learning entitled: pockets of potential - Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning .
Ignatia Webs
- Friday, April 3, 2009
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iPods in Education Part 11: Digital Flash Cards
However, with the advent of digital media devices, many educators and students are creating digital versions of flash cards and placing them on digital media devices such as an iPod to help student take their study tools with them.
Tags: tools mobilelearning iPod in Education multiple intelligences ipo This blog post is in response to all the digital flash card websites that I’ve been coming across lately that are offering teachers digital flash cards for iPod for a fee. There is an easy option for teachers and students to create their own digital flash cards that is totally
The Mobile Learner
- Thursday, January 8, 2009
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Cell Phones in Education Part 1: Productivity
As I stated in an earlier blog post , I an beginning a new series on using cell phones in learning to go along side my iPods in Education series. Tags: mobile devices tools mobilelearning cell phone cell_phone Cell Phones in Education mobile learnin I hope through this series of blog posts to provide practical ways teachers and students can use cell phones to help kids learn as a way to challenge the standard bias that cell phones are a useless distraction in the classroom.
In beginning this discussion, I want to focus on using a cell phone in a way that’s possible despite
The Mobile Learner
- Monday, December 15, 2008
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Network platform integration for the new education
The brain of your child whom you entrust to standardized schools is the most complicated thing in the universe, with 100 billion brain cells none of which seem to be in charge. So explains Steven Strogatz in the above video. He and Duncan Watts are introduced in this first of
Golden Swamp
- Monday, April 13, 2009
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iPods in Education Part 12: Customized Learning Using Apps
There has been a gap of several months since I last shared ideas in the form of a blog post on the topic of using iPods in Education. While the introduction of the iPhone and the iPod Touch has changed the rules in how handheld devices can be used in education, this series has laid dormant as I’ve been in the process of catching up with the technology. As I did not own neither an iPod Touch nor an iPhone, I didn’t feel confident that I could confidently I have always been a firm believer that one cannot comment on the techology until one actually uses the technology.
The Mobile Learner
- Monday, June 29, 2009
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Cell Phones in Education Part 3: Capturing the Moment
Often educators encourage students to use a variety of evidence in a variety of formats. The beauty of allowing students to use these digital tools is that an educator is not dictating how learning is to happen or specifying too strictly how students are to demonstrate their learning. Tags: Cell Phones in Education cell_phone differentiatedinstruction differentiated instructio Just imagine it. Students are outside of their classroom on a field study.
The Mobile Learner
- Monday, July 20, 2009
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innovating education
innovating education Front Page My Projects About me Conference notes 2009: A year in review December 9, 2009 · 1 Comment What did I do in 2009 as the fellow for 21st Century Learning at the Shuttleworth Foundation ? Most of the time mobile phones are used outside of the educational sphere. For a snapshot, check out the presentation below. If you have more time, read the full post. I have focused on mobile learning.
