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Can we afford to keep ignoring this dominant means of communication? "We frequently discuss how we can do the best job of communicating with students, yet at the same time we continue to ignore and bypass the use of texting, a communication technique that is a part of most American high school and college students’ daily lives." This article provides references that contain "useful suggestions and ideas specific to leveraging text messaging in assigned course work." 
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"The idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that any technology addresses: social media, digital citizenship, content-knowledge versus skill-building, Internet filtering and safety laws, teaching techniques, bring-your-own-device policies, school budgets. At its core, the issues associated with mobile learning get to the very fundamentals of what happens in class everyday. At their best, cell phones and mobile devices seamlessly facilitate what students and teachers already do in thriving, inspiring classrooms. Students communicate and collaborate with each other and the teacher. They apply facts and information they’ve found to formulate or back up their ideas. They create projects to deepen their understanding, association with, and presentation of ideas." Yet there may be issues also. This post explores mobile learning with a detailed example of a classroom where mobile phones are effectively integrated as well as a classroom where the integration did not go as well. A number of resources are also provided.
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