Here are some ideas for teaching about the topic of the home using apps and mobile devices. The ideas are aimed at the EFL/ESL young learner classroom but can be adapted to other contexts. 
Over and above the annual Summit, WISE is an international initiative and platform for a multitude of established and new educational actors to collaborate proactively all year round. 
comScore’s new mobile behavioral measurement service, Mobile Metrix 2.0, has revealed that the lion’s share of media engagement comes from apps. I don’t find this to be surprising, as apps are usually much easier to use versus most mobile site counterparts. However, I was a bit surprised to learn that as much as 82 percent of time spent with mobile media happens via apps. That’s a pretty high percentage and makes having a mobile app for your media almost a necessity. 
Recently, we were tasked with developing policies and procedures for an equipment lending program initiated within the Faculty Technology Resources Center at the University of Cincinnati. The progr... 
Just when you got used to your kids hogging your laptop, suddenly they’re hogging your iPad or other tablet device instead. They might even be cajoling you for tablets of their own. This isn’t necessarily bad news, though. Like most great things, tablets can be used for good or evil. With supervision and some pointing in the right direction, kids can benefit from the new tablet technology. In one study conducted in Maine, kindergartners who used iPads in the classroom scored better on a literacy test than those who had not. 
Educators take technology into their own hands, using classroom insight to create educational apps.
Via Donna Clark 
Despite this current challenge, we envision a future when students will migrate from the paper books used in previous centuries to tablets and smartphones for interactive, digital learning Via Nik Peachey 
Mobile devices are ubiquitous in American high schools, and their use is harder to regulate than old-fashioned note passing. But here's why teachers should be paying closer attention.
Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. 
A study conducted by the MIT Technology Review found that mobile devices, especially tablets, are being adopted by the population of the United States far faster than past technologies. The comparison included ...
Via Miguel Rodriguez 
As I started a go-to list of the best educational iPad apps for kids, the list got so long, I split up my posts into categories. 
The other week someone asked me what an agency such as Rabbit (where I work) should be focusing on going forward. 
iPads for Learning : Classroom Ideas In Their Hands Free booklet published by © State of Victoria (Department of Educationand Early Childhood Development) 2011 Via Shamblesguru 
Worldreader gives Kindles to students in sub-Saharan Africa. The nonprofit's new report, funded by USAID, shows that access to e-readers improved primary school students' reading skills significantly. |
More recently, the conversation has shifted from purchasing computers to purchasing mobile devices. Whether they are tablet computers, cell phones or media devices, as long as there were ample productivity apps available as well as usable assess to the internet through WiFi, school would be able to better afford the cost of assess to technology and provide opportunities for ’21st Century Learning’ as these devices cost a mere fraction of the price of a computer. Via Nik Peachey 
Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
Via Jim George
Over and above the annual Summit, WISE is an international initiative and platform for a multitude of established and new educational actors to collaborate proactively all year round. By Howard Rheingold We’re in a period where the cutting edge of change has moved from the technology to the literacies made possible by the... In 2002 I was so enthused by the idea that a school could provide one desktop computer for every child, that I launched a research programme to study one of the first schools in the UK to achieve that goal for each of its 41 Year 6 pupils. We placed a research assistant in a classroom for several hours each week, over an entire term at Broadclyst Community Primary School, near Exeter in Devon, to observe and record what happened. The results were later published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, and the 1:1 ratio certainly made a difference to learning engagement, but not necessarily to learning gain. Our major findings were that the 1:1 ratio of laptop provision encouraged greater creativity from the children, and improved their levels of engagement and enthusiasm across subjects. 
Below are best 40 iPad apps for language learners that will not only teach language but will also immerse you in another culture:... 
This website has been designed to describe mobile learning and technology-based activities that facilitate a sense of community in a variety of educational and training settings. The links in the menu lead to descriptions of the individual activities. They rely mostly on texting, emailing, and photo-taking activities. Free, group sharing internet sites are also used which require access to the Internet via a smartphone or computer. Sites such as Flickr Photo Sharing, Google Docs, and Web 2.0 tools supplement some of the activities. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. 
Educators share their secrets to choosing apps that are both fun and informative.
Via Steve Yuen 
Cell phones are a terrific tool to support student engagement and achievement in reading and writing. To follow are some ideas explaining how teachers are doing just that by using cell phones in the way they are most commonly used among youth -- for texting and group texting. We will also look at a newly emerging trend...using cell phones to write novels. Via Julie Millan ![Appy Hours 4 U [audio Podcast Series] about Apps | LearnAhead | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/djg5qhXp-W3AaINJNTT8izl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Appy Hours 4 U [Podcast Series] Via Shamblesguru 
With a reported 11 teens killed while texting and driving per day, parents are turning towards apps to limit their kids phone use behind the wheel. 
Most important is the need for a different approach to teacher development that focuses on helping teachers with their own digital literacies. These are the skills to integrate technology into our daily lives and practices. Technology use, just like the language our students learn, needs to focus on things that are useful and that enrich and enable lives. Via Nik Peachey |
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