Category: Change
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MAS.968 – Call for Action – a mobile course
I caught wind of this on one of the feeds while I was away, so I checked out the syllabus: Call for Action (CfA) is an intensive studio seminar on contemporary technologies and activism. How can mobile networked devices be used for social change, politics, and expression? Can Web2.0 techniques be applied to help to…
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Two edges of mobile
As I’m cutting through emails, tweets and stared items in my reader, I’m finding that a whole pile of stuff happened while I was “gone”. One of the things that I remember “starting” before I left was something about Pennsylvania banning, or trying to ban cell phones (and other mobile devices) in schools. I remember…
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Microlectures
I picked this one up off of Twitter (@mcleod) – microlectures via The Chronicle of Higher Education. One of the things that we have been trying to impress on instructors is that they don’t need to record entire lectures and infact 5-10 minutes is all that is needed. But these 60second bits could be the…
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Da GBU on Txting
After I spotted the new paper on texting last night, I noticed this morning that another one of the blogs that I read had picked up the same story, and had added a nice collection of pro/con articles: Positive studies on the effect of text messaging on student’s writing skills: Texts ‘do not hinder literacy’…
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txtn iz gd 4 u
I seem to be on a roll finding mLearning articles. This one, while not on the mLearning stream directly is one that finds that the SMSpeak (nee textisms) that “kids” use is potentially beneficial to them. In “Exploring the relationship between children’s knowledge of text message abbreviations and school literacy outcomes” Plester, Wood et. al.…