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Check out these apps--from popular to obscure--that are helping the iPad realize its potential as a collaborative device in the classroom.
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This page provides information on PhD early childhood education programs, what is studied in them, where you can study them, the prospects, and more ...
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"Online And Distance Learning Weekly", by Natalie Stewart: a free, online newspaper with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos about online and distance learning - for teachers, researchers and students.
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Early childhood education is usually taken to be the education of children from birth to age 8. This page provides information about online early childhood degrees, what is studied in the programs, where you can study them, and more ...
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"IJEDICT Weekly News", by Stewart Marshall: an online newspaper with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos about ICT for education and development.
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An online adult education masters degree offers plenty of career options in teaching and training. The programs are based on adult learning philosophy, known asandragogy. In andragogy, learners are assumed to be self-motivated, self-directed, and have accumulated life experiences that need to be accounted for in course design and delivery. This page provides information on what is studied and where you can study it.
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On this week's one-year anniversary of Coursera bursting onto the MOOCs scene, COL is starting an online discussion on the emerging issue of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). COL advocates increased access to education at all levels. We are conscious of the existence of the “iron triangle” relationship between access, quality and costs. Technology has been considered a key factor in adjusting the iron triangle in favour of the learner and society at large. Can MOOCs, primarily a technology-based development in education, contribute to improved access to education with higher quality? Read more at: http://www.col.org/resources/Pages/EmergingIssues.aspxDelete the scoop?
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This page provides information on what is studied in educational administration and leadership degrees, where to find them, the career prospects, and more ... A typical masters program might include: education policy analysis, school law, roles and responsibilities of the principal, finance and budgeting, educational psychology, management, community relations, evaluation and assessment, educational technology, and supervision of personnel.
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Authors: Mehdi Karami, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Iran The aim of this research was studying the effect of integrating problem-based learning with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) on developing content knowledge and teaching skill of trainee teachers. The research design was a quasi-experimental one, and the participants were elementary education trainee teachers of Shahid Bahonar teacher training center of Hamadan, Iran. Two groups were given tests of theory and practice on teaching mathematical concepts at elementary school, and then a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was conducted to compare the pretest-posttest scores. There was a significant difference, in both multivariate and univariate analyses, in scores. The findings suggest that trainee teachers who integrate problem-based learning with ICT in solving a problem may develop more professional content knowledge and teaching skill than those who merely employ ICT.
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Education management PhD online degrees are particularly useful if you want to progress in a career in school or college management. This page provides more details ... Delete the scoop?
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Authors: Goonesh Kumar Asvin Bahadur, University of Mauritius, Mauritius Deorani Oogarah, Primary School, Mauritius
The interactive whiteboard is an important tool in the classroom as it changes the mode of instruction. In this research project, an educational learning tool was designed and mounted using XERTE which is an Open Source Authoring tool, to test whether interactive whiteboard can improve learning in schools.
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We all knew it. We saw this coming in Haiti and talked about it in Egypt, when 5 Ushahidi maps popped out the day before the elections. But the Kenyan elections are somehow different, and the reason why they are, is that the possible outcome is indeed a civil unrest that could bring the country years back to 2007. It was recently election day in Kenya, and a lot of organizations prepared for that day by setting up their own branded, advertised, funded and public electoral monitoring system. Read more at: http://www.ictworks.org/news/2013/04/22/did-the-kenyan-elections-really-need-3-maps-7-phone-numbers-and-several-web-forms/Delete the scoop?
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This book integrates research, action research, best practice and case studies detailing how some educators have embraced the opportunities afforded by mobile learning. In particular, it brings together a range of scenarios, solutions and discussions relating to mobile learning in development and other resource challenged contexts. Read more at the IAP site: http://www.infoagepub.com/products/On-the-Move Delete the scoop?
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In order to move from theory to practice in mobile learning, one needs a framework. The JISC Mobile InfoKit introduces its frameworks discussion by listing six ‘course aspects’ (my term) which may be behind the drivers for mobile learning. The first four are pedagogical approaches. In sum, they are a pretty good, though not comprehensive, list of the ‘ideas behind the drivers’ toward mobile learning. Read more at: http://placesmobile.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/a-framework-for-mobile-learning/Via Nik Peachey, Fiona Price 
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The Kit itself is looking a bit outdated (2011) but it's an interesting framework. 
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This kind of model is really needed - very helpful. Check out the whole book (free) at http://www.aupress.ca/books/120155/ebook/99Z_Mohamed_Ally_2009-MobileLearning.pdf ; 
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In Papua New Guinea, a new lethal plant disease called Bogia syndrome is spreading and killing more and more coconut palms, other palm species like Betel nut and some banana varieties. 10 million farmers and their families cultivate coconut palms worldwide on about 12 million hectares, and many more people own a few coconut palms which contribute to their livelihoods. Read more at: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/index.php?id=7614 Via Luigi Guarino Delete the scoop?
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Adult learning is a vast area of educational research and probably one of the most complicated. Adults learn differently and have different strategies in learning. Adults Learning Theory and Principles explain in details these strategies and sheds more light on how adults cultivate knowledge. Talking about adult learning brings us to the concept of Andragogy. According to the article Malcolm Knowles an American practitioner and theorist of adult education, defined andragogy as “the art and science of helping adults learn”.Read more at: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/05/awesome-chart-on-pedagogy-vs-andragogy.html Via Susan Bainbridge 
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Adult learning is a vast area of educational research and probably one of the most complicated. Adults learn differently and have different strategies in learning. Adults Learning Theory and Principles explain in details these strategies and sheds more light on how adults cultivate knowledge. Talking about adult learning brings us to the concept of Andragogy. According to the article Malcolm Knowles an American practitioner and theorist of adult education, defined andragogy as “the art and science of helping adults learn”. Knowles identified the six principles of adult learning as:Adults are internally motivated and self-directedAdults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiencesAdults are goal orientedAdults are relevancy orientedAdults are practicalAdult learners like to be respectedTom Whitby wrote this great article " Pedagogy Vs Andragogy " in which he argued for using these same principles of adults learning in kids learning. I highly recommend this article to those of you interested in learning more about Andragogy. I am also sharing with you this awesome chart created by floridatechnet.org featuring the differences between pedagogy and Andragogy.
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Excelente e simples comparativo sobre diferenças de aprendizagem entre adultos e crianças. Sem dúvida, vale um inforgrafico aqui pra ilustrar ! Delete the scoop?
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When you spend time looking at interesting websites, some of those websites are looking back at you. Here's how to preserve your anonymity online. Via Informatics Delete the scoop?
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Inside the simple wood-frame house, a 6-year-old boy plays with a piece of malleable metal, biting it as his younger sister watches. In the background, piled against the wall, are two long strips of the metal – lead sheathing from an electrical cable that the family sold for scrap. Lead seems like an odd thing to find in an Achuar village deep in the Peruvian Amazon. But the metal is valuable here, since it is easily molded to make perfect weights for fishing lines and nets. That convenience comes at a cost. Three out of every four children in communities in the Corrientes River basin have blood lead levels higher than those considered excessive under U.S. health guidelines. Read more at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lead-poisoning-comes-to-the-remote-amazonDelete the scoop?
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In the latest TV commercial campaign from UNICEF Sweden, the organization admits something few seem to remember in the age of social media milestones: Facebook Likes don't save lives. In the most viral clip, which has received more than 40,000 views on YouTube, we meet a young boy named Rahim, who's sick, though he says he's not worried because of UNICEF Sweden's Facebook community. "UNICEF Sweden has 177,000 Likes on Facebook. Maybe they will reach 200,000 by summer," he says. His sardonic statement, as you can see in the above video, reflects many organizations' and brands' preoccupations with getting Likes. UNICEF Sweden informs viewers that Likes won't deliver life-saving vaccines to the children in need.
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There are loads of apps out there. But only a handful are of the high quality like these science apps for elementary students. Worth seeing.
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Non-profit Worldreader has brought more than half a million e-books to children in Africa via the 10,000 Kindles it's distributed. After a one-year pilot program, the organization has launched Worldreader Mobile, a way for any feature phone user with a 2G connection to read more than 1,400 books for free. "Feature phones are omnipresent in the developing world. They're people's lifelines; they're where they get their access to payments and the Internet," Susan Moody, Worldreader's director of marketing and communications, tells Mashable. IPhones and similar smartphones may be buzzworthy, she says, but they apply to a proportionally small number of people. Five billion people are using feature phones that run on 2G networks.
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"IJEDICT Weekly News", by Stewart Marshall: A free, online newspaper with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos about using ICT for education and development.
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Studies out of Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Niger show that children born during natural hazards, like droughts or floods, are more likely to be malnourished. Yet as the climate changes, it is poor countries - already struggling with hunger and food insecurity - that are increasingly likely to face these natural hazards. A recent conference considered this issue from the perspective of “climate justice” - an approach to climate change focusing on the rights of vulnerable people who are the least responsible for causing climate change but among the most affected.
Read more at: http://zunia.org/post/using-technology-to-save-lives-at-community-level-in-kenya
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Agriculture Nepal is a social network platform to gather all the Nepalese agriculturist on the single place. Our ultimate goal is to build communications, share information, create opportunities, and develop a nationwide agriculture data bank. Visit the site at: http://www.agriculturenepal.com/ Delete the scoop?
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War, natural disaster and the ravages of time threaten the very existence of this literature. In Mali, though the manuscripts may have been saved by a hair’s breadth from instant destruction, they are still at risk from neglect, deterioration, and the encroachment of the desert sands. The Ethiopian manuscripts face similar dangers: a 2011 British Library report on the monastic collection at East Gojjam found that the manuscripts were “in danger of being eaten by rats or insects… exposed to damage from rainwater… [stored] unlocked, or locked only with cheap locks, which can easily be broken or forced open.” For centuries, the seclusion of monastery libraries and the isolation of Timbuktu have helped to preserve intact collections that could otherwise have been scattered and lost. However, strategies must now be developed both to preserve them for posterity and to improve access to one of Africa’s precious resources. Read more at the eLearning Africa News Portal: http://www.elearning-africa.com/eLA_Newsportal/world-book-day/ Delete the scoop?
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No mere list, this is an excellent in-depth look at apps that can impact learning, and specifically collaborative learning.
Thanks for sharing this post David Miller via your Scoop.it site: http://www.scoop.it/t/ipads-for-learning ; This post does provide some things to reflect upon if you are looking at the use of iPads and mobile devices.
The iPad is so much more than a consumption device. Here are some great tips for using it more collaboratively.