Category Archives: Mobile Devices
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The marriage of BYOD and flipped instruction in 2013
Posted on May 9, 2013 by admin in Digital Classroom, Digital Textbooks, Mobile Devices, TechnologyThe concepts of flipping your classroom and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) really go hand-in-hand since a key requirement to flipping is access to technology outside of school. With more districts interested in the cost savings that a well-conceived BYOD program can bring and more teachers interested in the saved time that a flipped classroom [...]
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73% of AP, NWP Teachers Say Their Students Use Mobile Phones for Learning
Posted on March 8, 2013 by Lee Stewart in Digital Classroom, Mobile Devices, TechnologyMobile devices have been accepted overwhelmingly by Advanced Placement teachers and teachers who participate in the National Writing Project. Nearly three-quarters of those teachers surveyed reported that cell phones are in use in assignments in class and outside of class, and almost half reported their students are using tablets and e-readers in and out of [...]
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Digital learning is crucial to our children
Posted on January 20, 2013 by admin in Digital Classroom, Mobile Devices, TechnologyWhile I don’t remember much from my seventh grade geometry class, I have fond memories of trips to my middle school’s computer lab to play the computer game Math Munchers. For those of you who don’t remember, Math Munchers was a game designed to teach basic math skills by requiring the player to solve math [...]
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Ministry of Education Palau implements the 3W iClassroom
Posted on October 20, 2012 by Lee Stewart in Digital Classroom, Mobile Devices, OER, Professional Development, TechnologyiClassroom / Beyond Textbooks Project Pilot Program Overview In the spring of 2011, under the innovative leadership of the Minister of Palau, Palau High School implemented a 21st century digital learning pilot program titled the iClassroom. The iClassroom is a digital-technology teaching and learning environment that utilizes wireless computing tools (laptop, iPad, iPod Touch, Smartphone, [...]
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Using Mobile Devices to Teach Critical Thinking Skills.
Posted on March 10, 2012 by Lee Stewart in Mobile DevicesA friend, who is a former educator, emailed a link to a letter published in the San Jose Mercury News from a teacher expressing an opinion about using digital devices in classrooms. This letter to the editor read like a typical frustrated 20th century teacher trying to cope with a digital generation of high school [...]
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