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WCSA Mobile Learning K-12
The document discusses the concept of mobile learning, highlighting how mobile devices can enhance the educational experience through ubiquitous computing. It emphasizes the growing presence of mobile technology among children and the need for schools to adapt by integrating these tools for personalized and collaborative learning. The future of education is framed as one where mobile devices will play a central role in supporting learning anytime and anywhere.
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- #6 Not about devices, but capabilitiesAbout the experience -- not technology
- #8 Author and coiner of the term cyberspace
- #10 More than half of the world’s population now owns a cell phone and children under 12 constitute one of the fastest growing segments of mobile technology users in the U.S. Mobile Youth Report - Spent $270 billion a year on mobile – 10 times more than the entire global recorded music industry
- #11 New Media Center Survey ***
- #12 New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
- #15 mobile internet devices barcode reader TV set wallet cash train ticket apartment key comic book ebook reader alarm clock etc. camera movie camera GPS navigator
- #21 Approaching one billion milestone. Just three months ago (January) Apple announced that it had surpassed 500 million downloads.
- #22 The new “Virginia on iTunes U” program seeks to engage middle school students in mathematics through mobile learning applications. It establishes a dedicated area within Apple’s iTunes store featuring free access to educational content for students, teachers and others who will be able to “learn on the go” by downloading audio and video content onto an iPod, iTouch or iPhone from any computer with Internet access, according to Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.
- #24 Last year the school ran out of calculators needed for a math exam, so he let a student use the calculator function on his cell phone. The student was excited to use a phone instead of a calculator. He found 19 of his 22 students had phones
- #25 Adding geometry
- #30 Learning about Living is a project using computers and mobile phones to teach Nigerian teenagers about sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention. http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/157350/1/
- #31 applying mobile learning technology to augment educational opportunities in out-of-school settings.90% of the indigenous web content in India is in English.
- #34 Video available
- #35 Outcomes Increased by 13%
- #38 Educators face five opportunities to seize mobile learning’s unique attributes to improve education more than two dozen handheld learning projects“Pockets of Potential”