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PDFmyURL.com – Convert and save pdf from any webpage for free
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MyCast your digital media with Orb 2.0 remote pc access software
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VirtualBox’s Seamless Mode: Combine Two Operating Systems Into One Desktop
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How To Set Up A Wireless Home Network With Just a Mobile Phone
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Free Technology for Teachers: Nine Tools for Collaboratively Creating Mind Maps
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Social Media In The Classroom…
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A vision of the future Smart Classroom — Daniel S. Christian
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Half an Hour: Social OS and Collective Construction of Knowledge
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National Education Technology Plan 2010 | U.S. Department of Education
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Games at Sploder – Make your own Online Games Arcade, War Space & Platformer Games
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Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
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Cell phones in the classroom – O’Reilly Radar
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Surprising field studies suggest cell phones could be effective learning tools
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In most schools, cell phones are checked at the door — or at best powered off during school hours in a tacit “don’t ask, don’t tell” understanding between students and administrators. This wide-spread technology ban is a response to real concerns: if kids have unfettered instant access to the Internet at school, how do we keep them safe, how do we keep out inappropriate content, how do we prevent real-time cyberbullying, how do we even keep their attention in class when competing with messaging, gaming, and surfing?
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there is a growing sense among education thought leaders and policy leaders that not only are cell phones here to stay but there seems to be interesting potential to use these small, connected computers that so many students already have. I’ve been insanely fortunate over the past year to work closely with Wireless Reach (Qualcomm’s strategic social initiative) and real innovators in education who are finding that cell phones in classrooms don’t have to be a danger or a distraction but, in fact, can help kids learn in some surprising ways.
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During the 2007-2008 school year, Wireless Reach began funding Project K-Nect, a pilot project in rural North Carolina where high school students received supplemental algebra problem sets on smartphones (the phones were provided by the project). The outcomes are promising — classes using the smartphones have consistently achieved significantly higher proficiency rates on their end of course exams.
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Beyond just computing in the classroom, cell phones give the students in Project K-Nect access to the Internet and their learning communities 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, whether they are at school, at home, on the bus, at after-school activities, or in the case of one chronically ill student, at the hospital.
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Qualcomm Global Citizenship – Education
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“Given our challenging topography and current communications infrastructure, a 3G wireless strategy is the most cost-effective way to bring connectivity to these rural schools. Parents, students and whole communities are very enthusiastic about the possibilities and improvements the wireless effort will be bringing them. This project will allow them to ‘visit’ and understand new countries and people, and allow them to share their culture and traditions with those outside Guatemala. The support we’ve received to date guarantees that the initiative will realize its initial goal – creating a benchmark for the value of technology in everyday education.”
– Rodrigo Arias, IT advisor to the Minister of Education of Guatemala
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“This innovative project serves as a model for how the government can partner with the private sector to address Indonesia’s challenges in providing telecommunications for rural and underserved communities. We appreciate companies like Qualcomm, Sampoerna Telekom, IndoNet and Axesstel for their initiative and support.”
– Sofyan Djalil, former Minister for Information and Communication Technology in Indonesia
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That is one of the good thing about the TOPIC64 center, it offers training to the local people.”
– Tran Manh Thieu, 27, owner of Hoa Viet Ceramics in Phu Lam, a village 45 minutes from Hanoi, who signed four of his employees up for classes to learn Excel and Web design at the TOPIC64 center
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An initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators. Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project, our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition.
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Sigil – A multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor
Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor
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Math Worksheets | Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division Fractions Time
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neoK12 – Educational Videos for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English
A great source for online educational videos, lessons and games for students
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Marie Bjerede’s “Cell phones in the classroom” (posted in the O’Reilly Radar) was the article that stood out in the above list. While the possibility of using cell phones in the classroom has been discussed a great deal in recent years, this article referenced one of the first research studies I’ve seen on the use of cell phones in the classroom.
The article primarily focused on Project K-Nect, and the results from this study seemed quite promising. Admittedly, the study was not vetted with a formally designed control group, and the students involved in the survey were simply a convenience sample. This means that the results could be skewed.
However, there is one particular finding that I had not considered before: Collective Intelligence as it relates to cell phones outside the classroom.
As I read through the article, most of the content presented ideas/possibilities I’d heard before. The article referenced everything from anytime, anywhere learning to the use of math games on the cell phone to encourage students to engage in learning. The article even mentioned the phenomenon of “shy” students becoming more participative in the virtual realm.
The new idea, related to collective intelligence, was the emerging learning community (not earth shattering yet) that could respond to problems in real time. That was the new element! In asynchronous learning, one issue is that if a student has a problem, then they might receive an immediate response to a post but they might be forced to wait for some amount of time.
If every student has a smartphone (as was the case for Project K-Nect), then students are more likely to receive immediate feedback and help. In the Project K-Nect scenario, the community of learners could help one another in real time. In most online classes, this is only possible if students find a computer and log onto the Internet. However, with mobile technology, help is only a text or post away.
We are beginning to hear some prognosticators declare that most individuals will do a majority of web surfing on mobile devices by the year 2020 (as in the video Did You Know 4.0). Similarly, smartphone ownership is increasing daily. These two trends could easily pave the way for a mobile community of collective intelligence.