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"A new study conducted by TRU provides a body of research which supports the idea that students use cell phones to learn, and also that schools are not acknowledging or supporting them fully, yet... Rather than banning, the study highlights the fact that if we meet children where they are we can leverage their use of mobile devices for powerful learning." 
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Learn how cellphones, e-book readers, and tablets are getting kids engaged with learning, focused on working smarter, and ready for the future. Edutopia has published a new guide on Mobile Devices for Learning. What's inside? (quoting from the post): 1. Introductions: Pros and cons? Bridging the digital gap? 2. Know your mobile devices 3. Resources for teachers getting started with mobile learning 4. K-12 Apps and Web tools: elementary, middle, and high schools 5. Getting parents on board the mobile train You may download the guide as a pdf file (black and white or color). Registration is required to download but there is no cost.
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Can we afford to keep ignoring this dominant means of communication? "We frequently discuss how we can do the best job of communicating with students, yet at the same time we continue to ignore and bypass the use of texting, a communication technique that is a part of most American high school and college students’ daily lives." This article provides references that contain "useful suggestions and ideas specific to leveraging text messaging in assigned course work."
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"Cell phones are a terrific tool to support student engagement and achievement in reading and writing. To follow are some ideas explaining how teachers are doing just that by using cell phones in the way they are most commonly used among youth -- for texting and group texting. We will also look at a newly emerging trend...using cell phones to write novels."
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November 8, 2017 11:30 PM
This article is really important for me, I have been looking for some information related to the use of technology to implement in my reading workshop. In this article, I learned something which is using the cellphones to have conversations with a special tool such as WhatsApp or any tool that permits people to interact and share ideas through writing or speaking. I will encourage students to share their ideas of whichever book we will be reading in the time we start the workshop through a tool, and also I will promote their writing skills.
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"Cell phones are a terrific tool to support student engagement and achievement in speaking and listening. Here are some ways that teachers are using cell phones to do just that by using tools like Google Voice and Voki and functions like video."
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This post begins "Starting the year off with ideas on the best ways to use technology to support learning, Larry Ferlazzo collected an invaluable list of criteria last year from educators" and then shares MindShift's contribution as well as linking to Ferlazzo's work).
Beth Dichter's insight:
MindShift shares four areas: * Games and group work * Learning Latin * Reaching Students * Creativity Play Games and group work looks at what happens when a teacher brings in a wide range of technology incorporates game playing as part of the class. You may be quite surprised by the results! Learning Latin uses an online video game to teach Latin with great success. Reaching Students looks at how cell phones may be used in a classrom Creativity Play provides a look at how teachers are using Minecraft in the classroom).
יפה בן-דרור- Yaffa Ben-Dror's curator insight,
January 9, 2013 1:01 AM
MindShift shares four areas: * Games and group work * Learning Latin * Reaching Students * Creativity Play Games and group work looks at what happens when a teacher brings in a wide range of technology incorporates game playing as part of the class. You may be quite surprised by the results! Learning Latin uses an online video game to teach Latin with great success. Reaching Students looks at how cell phones may be used in a classrom Creativity Play provides a look at how teachers are using Minecraft in the classroom). 
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January 9, 2013 2:39 AM
MindShift shares four areas: * Games and group work * Learning Latin * Reaching Students * Creativity Play Games and group work looks at what happens when a teacher brings in a wide range of technology incorporates game playing as part of the class. You may be quite surprised by the results! Learning Latin uses an online video game to teach Latin with great success. Reaching Students looks at how cell phones may be used in a classrom Creativity Play provides a look at how teachers are using Minecraft in the classroom).
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"Most high school and college students have one. Why are we still generally ignoring them as a valid educational tool? In Sunday’s article “Embracing the Cell Phone in the Classroom With Text Messaging Assignments”, we read about one instructor’s perspective on the importance of embracing the cell phone as a communications tool to engage and connect with today’s students. Wanting to learn a little more about the cell/smart phone phenomenon as it relates to education, I hit the ‘net again and examined dozens of websites and articles to find more worthwhile resources to share. Here’s 10 good ones I found..."
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Mobile devices are ubiquitous in American high schools, and their use is harder to regulate than old-fashioned note passing. But here's why teachers should be paying closer attention. A look at the pros and cons of cell phones in the classroom...are they a benefit or a distraction? Can students learn when they are also sending out text messages?
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"The idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that any technology addresses: social media, digital citizenship, content-knowledge versus skill-building, Internet filtering and safety laws, teaching techniques, bring-your-own-device policies, school budgets. At its core, the issues associated with mobile learning get to the very fundamentals of what happens in class everyday. At their best, cell phones and mobile devices seamlessly facilitate what students and teachers already do in thriving, inspiring classrooms. Students communicate and collaborate with each other and the teacher. They apply facts and information they’ve found to formulate or back up their ideas. They create projects to deepen their understanding, association with, and presentation of ideas." Yet there may be issues also. This post explores mobile learning with a detailed example of a classroom where mobile phones are effectively integrated as well as a classroom where the integration did not go as well. A number of resources are also provided.
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The study was a survey of 1000 students in Grades 6 - 8 and came out with some surprising data. Key findings include:
* More than one out of three middle school students report they are using smartphones (39%) and tablets (31%) to do homework.
* More than 1 in 4 students (26 %) are using smartphones for their homework, weekly or more.
* Hispanic and African American middle school students are using the smartphones for homework more than Caucasian students. Nearly one half of all Hispanic middle school students (49%) report using smartphones for homework. Smartphone use for homework also crosses income levels with nearly one in three (29%) of students from the lowest income households reporting smartphone usage to do their homework assignments. (Note - 25% of students surveyed were from households of $25,000 or less income.)
The report has additional key findings as well as areas of significan opportunity, statistics on students interest in STEM, mobile device usage, benefits of mobile devices in the classroom, and the opportunity to increase mobile device usage in the classroom.
You may also download a pdf of this report at http://www.thinkfinity.org/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/10549-102-2-18289/Research%20on%20Mobile%20Technology.pdf.