Tag: mLearning
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mLearning should be the way
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools and colleges should deliver course content to the cell phones that students use to talk and text every day So reports eSchool News… “I don’t think we’ve had any real negative push against it or anyone refusing to use it,” Campbell [coordinator of learning resources and extended education…
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Joan Ganz Cooney Center – gaming and mlearning
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has a couple of reports that might interest many of you out there. The latest is a report (Game Changer – Summary) on using games to learn that recommends: Implement R&D initiatives at federal and state levels to identify learning gains through games and other digital media, develop metrics and…
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Making use of the intimacy of cells – for intimate purposes
This is an interesting way to look at using txting to teach. The BART (Be A Responsible Teen) project is trying to use txting because: “Right now, with the face-to-face method we have been using, kids come in for one and a half to two hour long sessions,” Cornelius [Judith Cornelius, Assistant Professor of Nursing…
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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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DOTGO makes “dumb phones” smarter
I just spotted this – DOTGO is a service that will return search results to your SMS enabled phone for “free”. I use quotes, because there may be ads later as there is a tab on the website for advertisers. Using it is pretty easy – txt a domain that you want to search to…