Learning in Hand - iPod touch in Education
Lots of resources from Tony Vincent. This page focuses on the many things you can do with an itouch in the classroom.
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Ever gaze out onto the ocean and wonder what’s beneath the surface, what mysteries lurk below? In this podcast, we look at, listen to and touch the ocean to unpack some of its secrets. Find out how to take the ocean’s temperature, detect underwater earthquakes, take photos of some of the smallest ocean creatures, and much more. We use your comments and answers to our puzzles in the podcast, so have a listen and be in touch!
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Cell phones in the classroom - O'Reilly Radar
If you think that cell phones can't improve math scores -- check again - read this report about a pilot where algebra problems were sent to smartphones. (So much for "leaving your homework at school.)
"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. So what's so different about delivering problem sets on a cell phone instead of a textbook? The first obvious answer is that the cell phone version is multi-media. The Project K-Nect problem sets begin with a Flash video visually demonstrating the problem -- you could theorize that this context prepares the student to understand the subsequent text-based problem better. You could also theorize that watching a Flash animation is more engaging (or just plain fun) and so more likely to keep students' attention."
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