projects mobile in schools mobile development work-based why mobile reading free resources top tipsHot off the press, we are pleased to present the Mobile Learning infoKit. Thanks all! MORE >>

While sexting and distracting texting are reasons why schools worry about including cell phones in learning, I believe these two examples are reasons why schools need to include cell phones in learning. Currently with policies banning cell phones from school campus, teachers get the message that they should ignore cell phones altogether. In the last year I have come across a number of articles about students sexting. Sexting is when a person sends a nude picture of themselves to someone else. She was charged with a crime of disorderly conduct. We would ban automobiles. MORE >>

This could eliminate the need for schools to purchase expensive LCD projectors, instead using their own cell phones as the projection tool. How this affects schools: Students, teachers, and parents could retrieve their school files and documents anytime from anywhere! How this could affect schools: Students could share files with each other by beaming them through cell phones (similar to Palm pilots, only now with a basic cell phone). How this could affect schools: Students who do not have Internet access at home ( As of 2007; 78% of U.S. Read About It ). MORE >>

Last Fall I sent out a survey on my Twitter network asking K-12 teachers about cell phone use in their schools. Of 100 teachers, 97 of them said that their school had a policy that highly restricted cell phone use during school hours (either banning them completely or restricting their use to non-academic times). Yet in the same survey 40 of the teachers said they were using cell phones in learning, and 87 teachers said they would like to use cell phones for learning in their schools in the future. received 100 responses on SurveyMonkey (Wow! Survey Says. MORE >>

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. Often a sign of a project’s demise. Awesome news! MORE >>