Steve Jobs reportedly spent the last few years of his life planning to shake up the textbook market, and revitalise education. Today’s event in New York is the first education-only launch from Apple in a long time. The Apple vision is by moving textbooks onto the iPad, they can be cheaper, more interactive, and ultimately more useful as educational reference tools. If you would like to see more samples, those good people at TheVerge have a bunch of photos of it in action over at [link] Will this transform educational publishing? Will this transform education? MORE >>

Lift the Cell Phone Ban: Hosted on the Scholastic website, this article is a plea to lift the ban on cell phones in schools and to use these devices to help students learn. Why an iPod Touch in Education? School Axes Textbooks as Pupils Download their Homework onto their Mobile Phones: A news article in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper on a school that is moving away from analog content and toward digital content. Using the iPod for Learning: A slideshare presentation from an Grace Poli, Media Specialist and Apple Distinguished Educator. link]. link]. MORE >>

The goal is to give a perspective of educational history and technology, where common technology tools (such as a chalkboard or pen or even Internet) were once banned and labeled "harmful" as we are doing with cell phones. I created this video for my presentation at the MACUL conference tomorrow in Grand Rapids, MI. would love some feedback on it. Enjoy! Update: Here is the Link to video on TeacherTube.Enjoy MORE >>

Sounds like bad news for education … or is it? open source pedagogy mobile in schools app development learners as creators constructivism innovation google applications androidA year ago, Google released App Inventor – a fascinatingly visual, albeit rather buggy tool for developing android apps. Although not robust enough for our commercial development, we loved the fresh ideas about interface, and app building. Perfect tools for learning about coding. Today I found an email in my inbox announcing that Google are dropping support for it. Google are open-sourcing the code base. MORE >>

Existing policies have very little to say when it comes to questions of whether and, more crucially, how to incorporate mobile technology into education. But as champions for "out of school learning" we felt that there was a large, and gaping hole. What about "out of school / adult / working learners"? The focus was too much towards school age learners. lot of thought had gone into how to impact government policy, and improve access to IT in schools. The joy of momentum! See below to links to all the resources. MORE >>