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Learnist\u003c/a>, as many have already pointed out, works much like \u003ca href=\"http://www.pinterest.com\">Pinterest\u003c/a> — a way to catalog online resources on a topic and share them with the user’s social network. And like Pinterest, it looks like a digital bulletin board with pictures and messages, and connects with Facebook accounts. In fact, the site’s “learning boards” look quite a bit like Facebook’s timeline feature, and Facebook membership is required to use Learnist at this point.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/teachers-transform-commercial-video-game-for-class-use/\">TRANSFORM MINECRAFT INTO CLASSROOM LESSONS.\u003c/a> Teachers like to use Minecraft because it’s a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/03/legos-for-the-digital-age-students-build-imaginary-worlds/\">“sandbox” game\u003c/a> — it provides players nearly limitless freedom to build within it. 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Tony Wagner of the Harvard School of Education and the author of the Global Achievement Gap says: “Isolation is the enemy of improvement” and yet most schools \u003c!--more-->are designed in a way that isolates teachers from each other. Teachers often learn to teach in isolated boxes and perpetuate that style throughout their career. Interior windows get “papered over” and blinds are shut. Yet out of school, people work in teams and are visually and often aurally connected. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cstrong>5. \u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>DEPARTMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS. \u003c/strong>In order to break down the size of schools and to allow students to learn across curriculum, it's essential to organize schools so that teachers of various subjects are located together. 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Rather than trying to fit the new devices into the same instructional strategies, educators should be thinking critically about how they will deliver instruction differently using the opportunities afforded by mobile technologies. 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To fill gaps in professional development on mobile learning, some teachers have created or joined communities of practice or professional learning communities (PLCs). Teachers in PLCs meet regularly, either in person or online, to exchange ideas, share successes and discuss challenges they may be facing in the classroom. Within this collaborative structure, teachers can examine and improve their professional practice at a more flexible pace and with more opportunities for individualized support than is typically offered by traditional professional development programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. SCALABILITY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly every project leader of the mobile learning initiatives included in this review strongly encouraged a \"start small, think big\" mentality. 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"content": "\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_22521\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 500px\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6660141181/sizes/m/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-22521\" title=\"6660141181_193b4d1fb2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/06/6660141181_193b4d1fb2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/06/6660141181_193b4d1fb2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/06/6660141181_193b4d1fb2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/06/6660141181_193b4d1fb2-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr:Flickingerbrad\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By Matt Levinson\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">For schools that are about to deploy the iPad as their main \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/feature/mobile-learning-series/\">mobile learning\u003c/a> device, there's wisdom to be learned from others who've gone down that road. At Marin Country Day School in Corte Madera, Calif., the first year of a pilot iPad program for sixth-graders has just ended, and some clear lessons have emerged. Here are some tips to help smooth the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>START CLASS WITH GOOD HABITS\u003c/strong>. Start out the day with a learning challenge like \u003ca href=\"http://www.agoogleaday.com\">Google a Day\u003c/a> to get students using and searching the iPad in a productive manner, instead of coming in to homeroom, advisory, or classroom and going into their own applications or searches.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>ASK KIDS FOR HELP.\u003c/strong> Don't hesitate to lean on kids for tech support and assistance. Tapping a student to come up with a way to fix a problem with the iPad is a great way to empower students, and gives them a sense of ownership.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>INVEST IN A DURABLE CASE\u003c/strong>. The initial investment will lower costs down the line if devices are are broken, and will cut down insurance premiums.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>IDENTIFY DEVICES. \u003c/strong>Use laminated name tags and have kids personalize their cases with a key chain. You can also ask each homeroom have a different key chain for easy identification. Also ask kids to put their names on their home screens. This is an easy way to identify ownership of the iPad and allows kids the opportunity to personalize and customize their devices.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>PROVIDE A FEW WIRELESS KEYBOARDS. \u003c/strong>Though most kids will opt to use the iPad keyboard, the wireless keyboards will come in handy now and then. That said, kids who have mobile phones and text a lot are quick iPad typists and their fingers are smaller and more nimble than adult fingers. Watch how they explore the split keyboard feature to enable and mimic texting like typing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>DECIDE iTUNES POLICY.\u003c/strong> Determine whether the school will control iTunes or whether students and families will have ownership and control to purchase apps -- there are pros and cons to each. In the first year of an iPad deployment, having the school control iTunes allows for equity and \u003c!--more-->access for all students. Students and families can always suggest apps for the school to purchase. On the other hand, giving full access to iTunes to students and families allows for greater personalization and exploration and releases the school from having to widely upload new apps for use. Each community is different and needs to do what fits best and is most appropriate to the needs of its community.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>FIGURE OUT WORKFLOW APPS. \u003c/strong>There are many different options, like \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/box-for-iphone-and-ipad/id290853822?mt=8\">Box\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebackpack.com/ipad\">e-Backpack\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8\">Evernote\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/ipad/\">DropBox\u003c/a> to name just a few. Whichever system you decide upon, have everyone use the same system to ensure consistency and to minimize the need to troubleshoot different systems.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>RELATED READING:\u003c/h5>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/which-device-will-win-the-tablet-battle/\">Which Device Will Win the Tablet Wars?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-ipad-classroom/\">A Day in the Life of an iPad Classroom\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/01/digital-storytelling-comes-to-life-on-the-ipad/\">Digital Storytelling Comes to Life on the iPad\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONSIDER PURCHASING AN APPLE TV.\u003c/strong> An Apple TV will project what's on the iPad and allow for greater teacher mobility in the classroom. Though it's an additional cost, it would also address teachers' complaints about the slipping of the cord attachment between the iPad and the projector, which can be disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>CHECK YOUR BANDWIDTH. \u003c/strong>Make sure you have enough bandwidth to manage use of all the devices on campus -- and test it regularly.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>HAVE A PLAN FOR MISSING DEVICES.\u003c/strong> Kids will misplace the iPads around campus, at home and on the bus, so have a plan in place for how to communicate missing devices. For example, send a blast email to let staff know the iPad is missing and have designated locations where iPads should be returned, and make sure everyone knows of these locations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>INDICATE YEA OR NAY.\u003c/strong> If you're not using the iPad everyday, post a visual in the classroom for whether the iPad will be used that day in class. For example, a red light signals no iPad, a yellow light indicates maybe and a green light means get the iPad out and ready to use right away. This will save the daily question, \"Are we using the iPads today?\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>FOLLOW THE KIDS' LEAD. \u003c/strong>Because of its mobility and versatility, unexpected opportunities will come up. Indulge the kids' ideas, whether it's to photograph parts of the campus and design math programs using proportional reasoning or to record and interview members of the community or to embark on a QR code treasure hunt.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED.\u003c/strong> No matter how much you prepare and put plans in place, you need to be ready for the detail you didn't see coming. Be flexible and adaptable and make sure your school team adopts the same mindset. You can't take on an iPad program and be rigid.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>HAVE FUN! \u003c/strong>Moving to an iPad program can be a blast for kids, teachers and administrators and has the potential to spark imagination and creativity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The initial investment will lower costs down the line if devices are are broken, and will cut down insurance premiums.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>IDENTIFY DEVICES. \u003c/strong>Use laminated name tags and have kids personalize their cases with a key chain. You can also ask each homeroom have a different key chain for easy identification. Also ask kids to put their names on their home screens. This is an easy way to identify ownership of the iPad and allows kids the opportunity to personalize and customize their devices.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>PROVIDE A FEW WIRELESS KEYBOARDS. \u003c/strong>Though most kids will opt to use the iPad keyboard, the wireless keyboards will come in handy now and then. That said, kids who have mobile phones and text a lot are quick iPad typists and their fingers are smaller and more nimble than adult fingers. Watch how they explore the split keyboard feature to enable and mimic texting like typing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>DECIDE iTUNES POLICY.\u003c/strong> Determine whether the school will control iTunes or whether students and families will have ownership and control to purchase apps -- there are pros and cons to each. In the first year of an iPad deployment, having the school control iTunes allows for equity and \u003c!--more-->access for all students. Students and families can always suggest apps for the school to purchase. On the other hand, giving full access to iTunes to students and families allows for greater personalization and exploration and releases the school from having to widely upload new apps for use. Each community is different and needs to do what fits best and is most appropriate to the needs of its community.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>FIGURE OUT WORKFLOW APPS. \u003c/strong>There are many different options, like \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/box-for-iphone-and-ipad/id290853822?mt=8\">Box\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebackpack.com/ipad\">e-Backpack\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8\">Evernote\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/ipad/\">DropBox\u003c/a> to name just a few. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21324\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/how-teachers-make-cell-phones-work-in-the-classroom/img_8517-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21324\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-21324\" title=\"IMG_8517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/05/IMG_85171-620x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"356\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.P. Chemistry students use their cell phones to answer their teacher's question.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">When we talk about using cell phones in class, we’re not just talking about using cell phones in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that \u003cem>any\u003c/em> 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>Guide to Mobile Learning\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20803\" title=\"Mobile Mind Shift Icon\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon1-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is part four of a series exploring mobile learning co-produced by \u003ca title=\"MindShift\" href=\"../\">MindShift\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\" href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/\">Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other posts in this series include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca title=\"Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/\">Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/\">Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/in-the-digital-age-welcoming-cell-phones-in-the-class/\">In the Digital Age, Welcoming Cell Phones in the Class\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"Welcoming Mobile: More Districts Are Rewriting Acceptable Use Policies, Embracing Smartphones and Social Media in Schools\" href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/welcoming-mobile-rewriting-acceptable-use-smartphones-and-social-media/\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/augmented-reality-coming-soon-to-a-school-near-you/\">Augmented Reality, Coming Soon to a School Near You\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the most ideal class settings, mobile devices disappear into the background, like markers and whiteboards, pencil and paper – not because they’re \u003cem>not\u003c/em> being used, but because they’re simply tools, a means to an end. The “end” can be any number of things: to gauge student understanding of a concept, to capture notes and ideas to be used and studied later, to calculate, to communicate, to express ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHEN IT WORKS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ramsey Musallam’s A.P. Chemistry class at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, cell phones are a natural extension of the way he communicates with his students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as kids walk in, Musallam sends out a text blast through \u003ca href=\"https://www.remind101.com/\">Remind101\u003c/a>, asking them a challenge question that’s related to the day’s lesson. “First person to tell me the units on K for a second order reaction gets chocolate,” he types and sends off. His students know he does this regularly, so they’re constantly anticipating the question during the day, in and out of class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, that’s kind of cute,” he says, admitting that it can be seen as gimmicky. “But more importantly, in my mind that’s saying, ‘You’re carrying around something that I can contact you with.’ It’s a fun ways to stay motivated in our day, which can be pretty dry sometimes. It’s a chance to think about what we’re learning outside the context of state testing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>\"I want it to be as rich and as visual as possible. I want them to see things, not just know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Once the class settles in and things are rolling along, the steady hum gets louder when kids are excited or working together, then quieter again when they’re working out problems on their individual little whiteboards (to be clear, these are not digital).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musallam constantly walks around, sending out directives – “Write the answer on your table!” ““I \u003c!--more-->want you guys to come up with an answer now, and text it in,” “What’s the ridonculous choice out of all these answers here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students work in groups, and when they have a question, they call him over. He arrives with iPad in hand and records his voice and his writing on the iPad, which he immediately uploads to the class website so other students can benefit from the explanations instantaneously. (This, by the way, is another form of flipped teaching, he says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This way, if I need to explain a common question, everyone can access it,” he says. “I don’t have to repeat myself going from group to group.” But rather than stop what everybody else is doing so he can explain a concept, students can watch the video he just created if they need to. “I’ll just tell them to look at the online tutorials to find out about common questions,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21304\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/how-teachers-make-cell-phones-work-in-the-classroom/img_8535/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21304\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21304\" title=\"IMG_8535\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/05/IMG_8535-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramsey Musallam considers the online poll reflecting his students' answers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During class, he asks students to take a multiple-choice quiz and send in their answers through a poll on their cell phones. The students’ votes are immediately displayed on the projector that’s hooked up to Musallam’s laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is key, Musallam says, because seeing the answers that get the most votes makes a big impression on his students. “If they all held up note cards that said their answers -- A,B,C or D -- the visual of the ‘distractors’ [the wrong answers] wouldn’t be as powerful,” he says. “And this makes the experience more immediate. I want it to be as rich and as visual as possible. I want them to see things, not just know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musallam can list a litany of reasons why and how mobile devices spice things up in class. “The data integration wouldn’t be as rich, the experience wouldn’t be as dynamic, the cognitive load is higher,” he says. But even though all but one of his students have cell phones and use them for polling and instantaneous quizzing, it’s clear that they would be just as rapt in the classroom activities without them; they’re not necessarily fixated on the fact that they’re using cell phones or that they’re seeing instantaneous results of their polls. Their eyes and ears are on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes Musallam’s class an interesting case study is that his teaching practice is based on a specific technique: he incorporates peer-instruction and inquiry-based learning, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/dont-lecture-me-rethinking-how-college-students-learn-2/\">mirroring Harvard professor Eric Mazur\u003c/a>. The videos and polls just help support that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m using it in the context of peer instruction, which is research based. You get anonymous feedback, which is great, and kids see all that information condensed,” he says. “Sometimes it’s just cute and fun and that wears off. But much more often, it’s more efficient and meaningful, and it makes the classroom feel like a bigger place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventh-grade history teacher James Sanders, who teaches at Kipp San Francisco Bay Academy, makes the analogy of the cell phone as a tool being used in a modern-day shop class: It makes things a lot easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21306\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/how-teachers-make-cell-phones-work-in-the-classroom/img_8600/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21306\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21306\" title=\"IMG_8600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/05/IMG_8600-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As Mussallam writes on the iPad, it's being shown on the projector.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though every student in his history class has a Google Chromebook, only 60 percent have what he calls “smarter” phones, and many have iPod Touches. So he has students work in groups of three or four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using \u003ca href=\"http://www.socrative.com/quizzes\">Socrative\u003c/a>, an app that shows real-time poll results for both multiple-choice and short-answer quizzes, he challenges his students at the end of class to answer specific questions in order to get a broad look at whether they understood the concepts discussed that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with subjective topics like world history, and a challenge like “Write one or two sentences why the Aztec Empire fell,” how can students convey a deep, meaningful understanding in just a couple of sentences?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Writing concise paragraphs explaining complex concepts is incredibly powerful,” Sanders says, adding that the class also works on research papers and projects around historical characters in addition to these short polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tool also allows students to read each others' responses, which allows for a “deeper level of analysis,” he says. “I can ask them to write their answers on paper, submit it, review it myself, and then choose one or two to highlight in class, but the idea of having these tools is that it augments our skills as teachers. To be able to ask a question of 30 students and get response instantaneously just speeds up the learning process, rather than waiting for individual students to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>IS IT WORTHWHILE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for every teacher who’s able to seamlessly integrate cell phones and other mobile devices, there’s another who doesn’t see the transformation as easily. Paul Barnwell, who now teaches English and digital media at Fern Creek Traditional High School in Louisville, Kentucky, decided to stop using cell phones in class after giving it a go with an eighth-grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnwell bucked the school’s policy and used Poll Everywhere for both multiple-choice and open-ended exit poll questions. About three-quarters of the students had cell phones at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"Writing concise paragraphs explaining complex concepts is incredibly powerful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The kids were pumped up to use their taboo devices,” he says. “After a few trials, they quickly understood how to submit their answers, and the engagement factor was high since their responses popped up onto the projected screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was uneasy with excluding those who didn’t have a phone or the ability to text. And, he said, some of the “class clowns” took advantage of the anonymity of the polling to text inappropriate statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided it wasn’t worth the time or the hassle,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnwell doesn’t like the idea of letting students Tweet information to a common address and hasn’t found an application that “promotes efficient ‘best practice’ yet. “But I'm also not seeking it out,” he says, adding that because he’s got 10 desktop computers in his current class, students can use them for research projects and looking up facts online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnwell hasn’t given up completely on cell phones, though. “If I can plan a lesson to ensure that high-level thinking is encouraged and greater participation, I might try phones again,” he says. “As far as polling and other simple uses, I see little benefit at this point. I can't stand how most teenagers thoughtlessly and even belligerently use Twitter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TEACHING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for kids to use cell phones for inappropriate behavior at school. But some believe that when students misuse the devices at school, teachers must step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our responsibility as educators to teach kids how to interact with the world,” Sanders says. “Those interpersonal human conversations are incredibly valuable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21307\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/how-teachers-make-cell-phones-work-in-the-classroom/img_8590/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21307\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21307\" title=\"IMG_8590\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/05/IMG_8590-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cell phones are just another tool, like pen and paper.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Sacred Heart, where Ramsey Musallam teaches, the school's cell phone policy is shifting, as they try to sort out their social policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, kids can’t use cell phones unless a teacher instructs them, but that’s evolving,” says principal Gary Cannon. But if kids are using them to take pictures, they’re not reprimanded by faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staff fully recognizes that the cell phone is just a tool. Twitter and texting are just tools used to say or do what might happen in the hallways and dining halls regardless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>“The challenge is giving them a sense of a digital footprint,” Cannon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Musallam, that’s all part of how he sees his job as an educator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to serve my students,” he says. “If we can leverage cell phones in a way that’s meaningful, I’m going to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21324\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/how-teachers-make-cell-phones-work-in-the-classroom/img_8517-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21324\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-21324\" title=\"IMG_8517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/05/IMG_85171-620x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"356\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.P. Chemistry students use their cell phones to answer their teacher's question.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">When we talk about using cell phones in class, we’re not just talking about using cell phones in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that \u003cem>any\u003c/em> 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>Guide to Mobile Learning\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20803\" title=\"Mobile Mind Shift Icon\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon1-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is part four of a series exploring mobile learning co-produced by \u003ca title=\"MindShift\" href=\"../\">MindShift\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\" href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/\">Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other posts in this series include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca title=\"Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/\">Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/\">Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/in-the-digital-age-welcoming-cell-phones-in-the-class/\">In the Digital Age, Welcoming Cell Phones in the Class\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"Welcoming Mobile: More Districts Are Rewriting Acceptable Use Policies, Embracing Smartphones and Social Media in Schools\" href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/welcoming-mobile-rewriting-acceptable-use-smartphones-and-social-media/\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/augmented-reality-coming-soon-to-a-school-near-you/\">Augmented Reality, Coming Soon to a School Near You\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the most ideal class settings, mobile devices disappear into the background, like markers and whiteboards, pencil and paper – not because they’re \u003cem>not\u003c/em> being used, but because they’re simply tools, a means to an end. The “end” can be any number of things: to gauge student understanding of a concept, to capture notes and ideas to be used and studied later, to calculate, to communicate, to express ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHEN IT WORKS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ramsey Musallam’s A.P. Chemistry class at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, cell phones are a natural extension of the way he communicates with his students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as kids walk in, Musallam sends out a text blast through \u003ca href=\"https://www.remind101.com/\">Remind101\u003c/a>, asking them a challenge question that’s related to the day’s lesson. “First person to tell me the units on K for a second order reaction gets chocolate,” he types and sends off. His students know he does this regularly, so they’re constantly anticipating the question during the day, in and out of class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, that’s kind of cute,” he says, admitting that it can be seen as gimmicky. “But more importantly, in my mind that’s saying, ‘You’re carrying around something that I can contact you with.’ It’s a fun ways to stay motivated in our day, which can be pretty dry sometimes. It’s a chance to think about what we’re learning outside the context of state testing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>\"I want it to be as rich and as visual as possible. I want them to see things, not just know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Once the class settles in and things are rolling along, the steady hum gets louder when kids are excited or working together, then quieter again when they’re working out problems on their individual little whiteboards (to be clear, these are not digital).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musallam constantly walks around, sending out directives – “Write the answer on your table!” ““I \u003c!--more-->want you guys to come up with an answer now, and text it in,” “What’s the ridonculous choice out of all these answers here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students work in groups, and when they have a question, they call him over. He arrives with iPad in hand and records his voice and his writing on the iPad, which he immediately uploads to the class website so other students can benefit from the explanations instantaneously. (This, by the way, is another form of flipped teaching, he says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This way, if I need to explain a common question, everyone can access it,” he says. “I don’t have to repeat myself going from group to group.” But rather than stop what everybody else is doing so he can explain a concept, students can watch the video he just created if they need to. “I’ll just tell them to look at the online tutorials to find out about common questions,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21304\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/how-teachers-make-cell-phones-work-in-the-classroom/img_8535/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21304\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21304\" title=\"IMG_8535\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/05/IMG_8535-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramsey Musallam considers the online poll reflecting his students' answers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During class, he asks students to take a multiple-choice quiz and send in their answers through a poll on their cell phones. The students’ votes are immediately displayed on the projector that’s hooked up to Musallam’s laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is key, Musallam says, because seeing the answers that get the most votes makes a big impression on his students. “If they all held up note cards that said their answers -- A,B,C or D -- the visual of the ‘distractors’ [the wrong answers] wouldn’t be as powerful,” he says. “And this makes the experience more immediate. I want it to be as rich and as visual as possible. I want them to see things, not just know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musallam can list a litany of reasons why and how mobile devices spice things up in class. “The data integration wouldn’t be as rich, the experience wouldn’t be as dynamic, the cognitive load is higher,” he says. But even though all but one of his students have cell phones and use them for polling and instantaneous quizzing, it’s clear that they would be just as rapt in the classroom activities without them; they’re not necessarily fixated on the fact that they’re using cell phones or that they’re seeing instantaneous results of their polls. Their eyes and ears are on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes Musallam’s class an interesting case study is that his teaching practice is based on a specific technique: he incorporates peer-instruction and inquiry-based learning, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/dont-lecture-me-rethinking-how-college-students-learn-2/\">mirroring Harvard professor Eric Mazur\u003c/a>. The videos and polls just help support that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m using it in the context of peer instruction, which is research based. You get anonymous feedback, which is great, and kids see all that information condensed,” he says. “Sometimes it’s just cute and fun and that wears off. But much more often, it’s more efficient and meaningful, and it makes the classroom feel like a bigger place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventh-grade history teacher James Sanders, who teaches at Kipp San Francisco Bay Academy, makes the analogy of the cell phone as a tool being used in a modern-day shop class: It makes things a lot easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21306\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/how-teachers-make-cell-phones-work-in-the-classroom/img_8600/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21306\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21306\" title=\"IMG_8600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/05/IMG_8600-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As Mussallam writes on the iPad, it's being shown on the projector.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though every student in his history class has a Google Chromebook, only 60 percent have what he calls “smarter” phones, and many have iPod Touches. So he has students work in groups of three or four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using \u003ca href=\"http://www.socrative.com/quizzes\">Socrative\u003c/a>, an app that shows real-time poll results for both multiple-choice and short-answer quizzes, he challenges his students at the end of class to answer specific questions in order to get a broad look at whether they understood the concepts discussed that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with subjective topics like world history, and a challenge like “Write one or two sentences why the Aztec Empire fell,” how can students convey a deep, meaningful understanding in just a couple of sentences?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Writing concise paragraphs explaining complex concepts is incredibly powerful,” Sanders says, adding that the class also works on research papers and projects around historical characters in addition to these short polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tool also allows students to read each others' responses, which allows for a “deeper level of analysis,” he says. “I can ask them to write their answers on paper, submit it, review it myself, and then choose one or two to highlight in class, but the idea of having these tools is that it augments our skills as teachers. To be able to ask a question of 30 students and get response instantaneously just speeds up the learning process, rather than waiting for individual students to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>IS IT WORTHWHILE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for every teacher who’s able to seamlessly integrate cell phones and other mobile devices, there’s another who doesn’t see the transformation as easily. Paul Barnwell, who now teaches English and digital media at Fern Creek Traditional High School in Louisville, Kentucky, decided to stop using cell phones in class after giving it a go with an eighth-grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnwell bucked the school’s policy and used Poll Everywhere for both multiple-choice and open-ended exit poll questions. About three-quarters of the students had cell phones at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"Writing concise paragraphs explaining complex concepts is incredibly powerful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The kids were pumped up to use their taboo devices,” he says. “After a few trials, they quickly understood how to submit their answers, and the engagement factor was high since their responses popped up onto the projected screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was uneasy with excluding those who didn’t have a phone or the ability to text. And, he said, some of the “class clowns” took advantage of the anonymity of the polling to text inappropriate statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided it wasn’t worth the time or the hassle,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnwell doesn’t like the idea of letting students Tweet information to a common address and hasn’t found an application that “promotes efficient ‘best practice’ yet. “But I'm also not seeking it out,” he says, adding that because he’s got 10 desktop computers in his current class, students can use them for research projects and looking up facts online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnwell hasn’t given up completely on cell phones, though. “If I can plan a lesson to ensure that high-level thinking is encouraged and greater participation, I might try phones again,” he says. “As far as polling and other simple uses, I see little benefit at this point. I can't stand how most teenagers thoughtlessly and even belligerently use Twitter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TEACHING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for kids to use cell phones for inappropriate behavior at school. But some believe that when students misuse the devices at school, teachers must step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our responsibility as educators to teach kids how to interact with the world,” Sanders says. “Those interpersonal human conversations are incredibly valuable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21307\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/how-teachers-make-cell-phones-work-in-the-classroom/img_8590/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21307\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21307\" title=\"IMG_8590\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/05/IMG_8590-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cell phones are just another tool, like pen and paper.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Sacred Heart, where Ramsey Musallam teaches, the school's cell phone policy is shifting, as they try to sort out their social policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, kids can’t use cell phones unless a teacher instructs them, but that’s evolving,” says principal Gary Cannon. But if kids are using them to take pictures, they’re not reprimanded by faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staff fully recognizes that the cell phone is just a tool. Twitter and texting are just tools used to say or do what might happen in the hallways and dining halls regardless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>“The challenge is giving them a sense of a digital footprint,” Cannon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Musallam, that’s all part of how he sees his job as an educator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In his work as an instructional designer with the University of Wisconsin’s \u003ca title=\"ENGAGE\" href=\"http://engage.wisc.edu/\">ENGAGE\u003c/a> program, Gagnon has given this workshop many times. But these days, he says, things are starting to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many of you are currently using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch?” Gagnon asks the teachers, who are participating in a webinar through ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GUIDE \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20803\" title=\"Mobile Mind Shift Icon\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon1-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>TO MOBILE LEARNING: \u003c/strong>This is part three of a series exploring mobile learning co-produced by \u003ca title=\"MindShift\" href=\"../\">MindShift\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\" href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/\">Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other posts in this series include: \u003ca title=\"Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/\">Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/in-the-digital-age-welcoming-cell-phones-in-the-class/\">In the Digital Age, Welcoming Cell Phones in the Class\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"Welcoming Mobile: More Districts Are Rewriting Acceptable Use Policies, Embracing Smartphones and Social Media in Schools\" href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/welcoming-mobile-rewriting-acceptable-use-smartphones-and-social-media/\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>What happens next demonstrates how the availability of communications technology has grown exponentially in recent years: 89 percent of this group owns a mobile device, and they want to know how to use it in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two years ago, when we would do a workshop with 20 people, we would have to bring 10 devices. 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As the minds behind \u003ca title=\"Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling\" href=\"http://arisgames.org/\">Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling\u003c/a> (ARIS), they’ve developed an open-source mobile learning platform educators can download onto an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to create place-based and narrative gaming activities that can be incorporated into classroom curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Chris Holden, an assistant professor in the University Honors Program at the University of New Mexico, and Julie Sykes, an assistant professor of Hispanic linguistics, used ARIS to create the game “\u003ca title=\"Mentira\" href=\"http://www.mentira.org/\">Mentira\u003c/a>.” Designed to help Spanish-language students learn in a real-world context, players talk with real people and virtual characters while visiting the Los \u003c!--more-->Griegos neighborhood in Albuquerque, where they must solve a fictional murder mystery based on current and historical events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20812\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/dow_day_300.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-20812\" title=\"dow_day_300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/dow_day_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playing \"Dow Day.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oregon, Wisc., Heidi Pankratz and her students from the Oregon Middle School designed the “Henry Vilas Virus.” Using their phones, students go on a quest through the local zoo to help identify a mysterious virus that is plaguing the animals, while learning about local ecology and biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How is this possible? Thanks to technologies like GPS and QR codes, these games combine real-world experiences with virtual information. The games can capture geo-tagged audio recordings, for example, or photos and videos that student players can view when they reach a particular place or meet a particular character. Characters can talk with students, provide information, exchange items or respond to tasks. Authors can also create virtual items that players can retrieve and exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key is the ARIS platform, which enables teachers, designers, artists, and students to create place-based narratives. Game designers say the open-source platform is easy to use; educators don’t need a programming background to get started because the work is done with an online authoring tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we first reported on ARIS in 2009, the developer community was small. Gagnon estimates that the number of users around the world has grown to more than 5,700 players and 2,000 authors. And he expects this number to double in the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The games that educators are developing, Gagnon says, have the potential to tell us a lot about the possibilities of mobile learning, and what works and what doesn’t when educators partner with technology. As he puts it, “We’re looking at this as a big distributed research question: ‘What in mobile learning might be amazing for education?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>The Power of Place\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Jim Mathews is a teacher at Middleton Alternative Senior High School in Middleton, Wisc., and a UW graduate student. As an ARIS designer, Mathews says he believes in the power of narrative and place to bring learning to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Mathews created “\u003ca title=\"Dow Day\" href=\"http://arisgames.org/featured/dow-day/\">Dow Day\u003c/a>,” one of the first ARIS games. Players can walk the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus using iPhones to view footage of Vietnam War protests that occurred in the same campus locations. The students also learn how the press covered the war and how that colored the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"The value is to understand what are the stories out there in the community, around ecological issues, contested issues, political issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>These location-based games, explains Matthews, allow kids to engage with their community in new and powerful ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his high school colleagues, Mathews designed a game to teach students about the city of Middleton and urban planning principles. His students explored downtown Middleton using smartphones and tablets. They looked at photos of the downtown neighborhood from the past and “met” virtual characters from the city’s history. As part of the lesson, students were encouraged to gather images, videos and interviews to investigate elements of urban design, and learn how the city has changed over time in terms of density and housing. This also led them to examine the city’s transportation, architecture, and land use patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathews said that placing students in a real-world community context helps them develop a broader understanding of the curriculum content—and create their own meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Place-based learning, he said, leads game developers to ask: “How does this tool help us investigate place and help us tell stories about place? The value is not only in me telling my own personal story, but to understand what are the stories out there in the community, around ecological issues, contested issues, political issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathews says he has seen how participation in the augmented reality game has changed how students view history and shifted their perspectives about their own community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, history teachers have known for a long time that real world experience can bring content to life. But what is it about the mobile tool makes this experience different? How does it change how teachers can teach?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Game designers say that as a narrative tool, ARIS is especially primed for helping educators create structures that allow students to go out into new environments, collect information, and then to aggregate, find patterns, and make meaning of that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designed experiences, says Matthews, provide an “entry point” into neighborhoods. The games invite users to visit places they may not otherwise go, such as shopping at a local bodega without advanced Spanish language skills, or examining a neighborhood’s vacant lot for historical context, or interviewing residents they’ve never met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mobile is, in that way, scaffolding,” he says. “The narrative helps students understand why they should care about collecting these data points. And hopefully that encourages them to do other stuff, to get a microscope and collect more data on their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20813\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-20813\" title=\"ARIS\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/ARIS_editor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A middle school student in Wisconsin tests his new game.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Students As Designers\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>But there’s another, perhaps even more important way that this mobile design platform can facilitate complex learning. And that’s when students step into the role of designer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice Leung, a teacher at Merrylands High School in Sydney, Australia, recently used ARIS with a group of students to design a tour of the school’s main landmarks for student orientation day. Leung divided students into teams—programmers, narrative writers, and media collectors—to take on different roles in the game’s development process. The students designed several quests, each containing items that players had to collect by scanning QR codes. The players exchanged the found items with a series of “guardians” in order to collect badges and win the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, this experience is much more than making a game and playing a game on iPhones,” Leung wrote in a \u003ca title=\"post on her blog\" href=\"http://missaliceleung.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/its-more-than-just-a-game/\">post on her blog\u003c/a>. “Watching the students create the game has shown me how much young people can thrive when given a challenging task in a stimulating environment. Something that traditional classroom experiences can’t offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, she adds, “had to constantly communicate with each other (face-to-face and on Edmodo) and complete their tasks according to a timeline, which was created by the students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students developed literacy and teamwork skills, she writes, along with learning project management and problem solving.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Design Thinking, A 21st Century Skill\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>ARIS designers in Madison have held several “game design jams.” Game makers from around the world gather in-person and online for three-day game-making sessions to try out ARIS and to create their own games. At the 2011 ARIS Global Game Jam, middle and high school students joined in along with their teachers. More than 100 participants, from four countries and 11 states, created 127 games. The team held a smaller event this past October, and more events are planned for later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews notes that students gain a lot from taking part in the process. “The rich area for kids is really designing,” he says. “Being part of community, play testing, learning about content, science, civics, social studies. It’s a really rich space where people move from players to designers and back. People are rallying around them and commenting on each other’s work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Games and learning scholar James Paul Gee has pointed to the collaborative skills students gain when they play and design their own online games. 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As the minds behind \u003ca title=\"Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling\" href=\"http://arisgames.org/\">Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling\u003c/a> (ARIS), they’ve developed an open-source mobile learning platform educators can download onto an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to create place-based and narrative gaming activities that can be incorporated into classroom curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Chris Holden, an assistant professor in the University Honors Program at the University of New Mexico, and Julie Sykes, an assistant professor of Hispanic linguistics, used ARIS to create the game “\u003ca title=\"Mentira\" href=\"http://www.mentira.org/\">Mentira\u003c/a>.” Designed to help Spanish-language students learn in a real-world context, players talk with real people and virtual characters while visiting the Los \u003c!--more-->Griegos neighborhood in Albuquerque, where they must solve a fictional murder mystery based on current and historical events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20812\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/dow_day_300.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-20812\" title=\"dow_day_300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/dow_day_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playing \"Dow Day.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oregon, Wisc., Heidi Pankratz and her students from the Oregon Middle School designed the “Henry Vilas Virus.” Using their phones, students go on a quest through the local zoo to help identify a mysterious virus that is plaguing the animals, while learning about local ecology and biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How is this possible? Thanks to technologies like GPS and QR codes, these games combine real-world experiences with virtual information. The games can capture geo-tagged audio recordings, for example, or photos and videos that student players can view when they reach a particular place or meet a particular character. Characters can talk with students, provide information, exchange items or respond to tasks. Authors can also create virtual items that players can retrieve and exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key is the ARIS platform, which enables teachers, designers, artists, and students to create place-based narratives. Game designers say the open-source platform is easy to use; educators don’t need a programming background to get started because the work is done with an online authoring tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we first reported on ARIS in 2009, the developer community was small. Gagnon estimates that the number of users around the world has grown to more than 5,700 players and 2,000 authors. And he expects this number to double in the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The games that educators are developing, Gagnon says, have the potential to tell us a lot about the possibilities of mobile learning, and what works and what doesn’t when educators partner with technology. As he puts it, “We’re looking at this as a big distributed research question: ‘What in mobile learning might be amazing for education?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>The Power of Place\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Jim Mathews is a teacher at Middleton Alternative Senior High School in Middleton, Wisc., and a UW graduate student. As an ARIS designer, Mathews says he believes in the power of narrative and place to bring learning to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Mathews created “\u003ca title=\"Dow Day\" href=\"http://arisgames.org/featured/dow-day/\">Dow Day\u003c/a>,” one of the first ARIS games. Players can walk the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus using iPhones to view footage of Vietnam War protests that occurred in the same campus locations. The students also learn how the press covered the war and how that colored the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"The value is to understand what are the stories out there in the community, around ecological issues, contested issues, political issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>These location-based games, explains Matthews, allow kids to engage with their community in new and powerful ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his high school colleagues, Mathews designed a game to teach students about the city of Middleton and urban planning principles. His students explored downtown Middleton using smartphones and tablets. They looked at photos of the downtown neighborhood from the past and “met” virtual characters from the city’s history. As part of the lesson, students were encouraged to gather images, videos and interviews to investigate elements of urban design, and learn how the city has changed over time in terms of density and housing. This also led them to examine the city’s transportation, architecture, and land use patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathews said that placing students in a real-world community context helps them develop a broader understanding of the curriculum content—and create their own meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Place-based learning, he said, leads game developers to ask: “How does this tool help us investigate place and help us tell stories about place? The value is not only in me telling my own personal story, but to understand what are the stories out there in the community, around ecological issues, contested issues, political issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathews says he has seen how participation in the augmented reality game has changed how students view history and shifted their perspectives about their own community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, history teachers have known for a long time that real world experience can bring content to life. But what is it about the mobile tool makes this experience different? How does it change how teachers can teach?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Game designers say that as a narrative tool, ARIS is especially primed for helping educators create structures that allow students to go out into new environments, collect information, and then to aggregate, find patterns, and make meaning of that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designed experiences, says Matthews, provide an “entry point” into neighborhoods. 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"content": "\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_20550\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 620px\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CastlWoH2c&feature=player_embedded\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-20550\" title=\"ISD\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/MN_blue_688-620x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Innovation in ISD\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>\u003cem>No longer afraid of giving kids access to the Internet, a growing number of school districts are developing digital media policies that emphasize responsibility over fear.\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003ch5>By Heather Chaplin\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Since early 2001, every school accepting federal funding for discounted Internet access through the government’s E-rate program had to do two things – block “harmful” sites and create an Acceptable Use Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mantra of schools back then was pretty simple: Keep it out. The standard approach to this government mandate, the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), was to build the equivalent of walls, fences, and moats to keep kids from the web.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a historical hiccup in the history of learning,” said \u003ca title=\"Rich Halverson\" href=\"http://elpa.education.wisc.edu/elpa/people/faculty-and-staff-directory/richard-halverson\">Rich Halverson\u003c/a>, a learning scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the lead researcher on \u003ca title=\"KidGrid\" href=\"http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/research/kidgrid\">KidGrid\u003c/a>, a mobile app that helps teachers study and analyze student data. “Here we had the most sophisticated advances in the history of learning banned from schools out of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/in-the-digital-age-welcoming-cell-phones-in-the-class/mobile-mind-shift-icon/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20566\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20566\" title=\"Mobile Mind Shift Icon\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"67\" height=\"67\">\u003c/a>GUIDE TO MOBILE LEARNING:\u003c/strong> Part two of a series exploring mobile learning co-produced by \u003cstrong>MindShift\u003c/strong> and \u003ca href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/\">Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\u003c/a>. The first post in this series: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/\">Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fear was definitely the word you heard when talking to school administrators – no doubt partly because in the age of the Internet, 2001 was a long time ago, and the Web was still unknown territory for plenty of people back then. Also, all it takes is one student downloading pornography and sending it around the school, or one case of sexting that makes it in the news, for a school to find itself in serious hot water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recently – in the last two or three years - something has changed. Schools seem to be getting over their fears and want to bring the Web and social media and all the attendant digital tools into \u003c!--more-->the classroom. You can see this change reflected in a slew of new Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) across the country that emphasize responsibility over mere acceptance and the implementation of school-wide blogs and even the distribution of smartphones for classroom use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t happening in the majority of schools,” said \u003ca title=\"Jim Bosco\" href=\"http://homepages.wmich.edu/%7Ebosco/bio.html\">Jim Bosco\u003c/a>, principal investigator at the Consortium of School Networking’s \u003ca title=\"Participatory Learning in Schools\" href=\"http://www.cosn.org/Initiatives/ParticipatoryLearning/Home/tabid/7112/Default.aspx\">Participatory Learning in Schools\u003c/a> initiative. “But it’s not the rarity anymore, either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosco said that while he had no empirical data to track these changes in schools, he estimated that between 40 and 50 percent of school districts were developing more forward-thinking policies. The Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) is working with school leaders from 13 districts to \u003ca title=\"collaborate on creating models for district-level digital media use policies\" href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/school-leaders-collaborate-on-best-practices-for-district-level-digital-med/\">collaborate on creating models for district-level digital media use policies\u003c/a> in K-12 education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COSN released a paper this month called “\u003ca title=\"Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media\" href=\"http://www.cosn.org/Initiatives/ParticipatoryLearning/MakingProgress/tabid/12543/Default.aspx\">Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The advantages of digital media now greatly outweigh the disadvantages and require that schools update their thinking and policies to provide guidance on the use of these tools to improve student learning and achievement,” the paper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It simply makes no sense, the paper argues, to try and keep students out of a world – a digital world – that is going to be paramount to how they live and work as adults. In fact, says Bosco, it’s not even possible to keep them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can build as big a moat as you want,” he said. “But it’s not going to work if for no other reason than they go home at night. A lot of people say, well, what they do when they get home is not my problem. But I think that seems borderline unethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>“You can build as big a moat as you want, but it’s not going to work if for no other reason than they go home at night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to Bosco, administrators at schools ought to be providing safe environments for students to learn how to be responsible digital citizens – not just protecting themselves from lawsuits by keeping the Internet out of the classroom and leaving kids to flail about when they go home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most powerful reasons to permit the use of social media and mobile devices in the classroom is to provide an opportunity for students to learn about their use in a supervised environment that emphasizes the development of attitudes and skills that will help keep them safe outside of school,” the CoSN paper reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Children’s Internet Protection Act requires Internet filters, but the changing thinking over the last two or three years is that maybe those “filters” aren’t best enforced by draconian AUPs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to colleagues in Finland, they say, how do you filter?” said \u003ca title=\"Jim Klein\" href=\"http://www.classroom20.com/profile/jimklein\">Jim Klein\u003c/a>, director of Information Services and Technology at the \u003ca title=\"Saugus Union School District\" href=\"http://www.saugususd.org/\">Saugus Union School District\u003c/a> in Southern California. “They say, our kids’ filters are in their heads. You do this by giving them a safe environment to educate themselves instead of sticking your head in the sand and pretending these technologies don’t exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t mean that students in Klein’s district have unfettered access to anything online. But Klein has a different approach to blocking. Instead of buying a commercial filter that blocks URLs, Klein, who uses only open source software, has created filters based on content. This means YouTube, for example, is available as a site, but a particular page – pornographic or hate-based – won’t be.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RELATED READING:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/dispelling-myths-about-blocked-websites-in-schools/\">DISPELLING MYTHS ABOUT BLOCKED WEBSITES\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/students-demand-the-right-to-use-technology-in-schools/\">STUDENTS DEMAND THE RIGHT TO USE TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/10/when-school-web-filtering-comes-home/\">WHEN SCHOOL WEB FILTERING COMES HOME\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Klein also said that when he’s building filters, he doesn’t work with the mindset of keeping out every kid who desperately wants to get around them – those kids are going to get access anyway, he said, whether by breaking through the filter or waiting until they go home. Rather, he sets out to prevent students from accidentally stumbling on something harmful or upsetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to understand the purpose of filters,” he said, “and change your assumptions about what you’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Klein was loosening the filter system, he spent a lot of time talking to teachers about what he was doing and why. Teachers have to be responsible for what happens in their classroom, Klein said. And the expectation has to be that students are responsible for their own behavior. His message of responsibility is echoed by the new CoSN paper and by other forward-thinking tech administrators at districts around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DISTRICTS FIGURING IT OUT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"Katy Independent School District\" href=\"http://www.katyisd.org/Pages/default.aspx\">Katy Independent School District\u003c/a> in Texas recently changed its AUP to focus on “responsible use,” said Darlene Rankin, director of instructional technology. “Digital responsibility is big.” Rankin said. “We’re teaching students how to operate in this new world. We wanted to change the wording in our guidelines because we don’t want students to accept them; we want students to be responsible for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do things ever go wrong? Of course. In the Katy ISD, one fifth grader did a search for and found videos of lap dancers. The parents, Rankin said, were irate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are going to happen,” Rankin said. “We talked to the parents – ultimately it was a great teaching moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"The depth of thought and level of discourse gets much deeper when you add an online environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Halverson, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said one of the problems schools are now facing over responsible internet use is a legacy of the last 20-plus years of what he called an “accountability squeeze” in the school system. There’s been so much focus on “holding schools accountable” that school administrators have been living in a culture of fear – fear of innovating, fear of trying something that might be messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research-driven intervention like changing the curriculum or bringing in new textbooks leaves no room for error,” he said, “which is never going to be the case with digital technology. Of course there’s uncertainty and variation in what they’ve been doing – just look at the state of algebra in inner-city schools. But you can certify a textbook. Everyone wants a magic bullet that will solve all problems, but it doesn’t exist. We need to lay off schools and let them innovate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy ISD has been innovating by distributing Android phones to students. Three years ago, the district gave 150 phones to fifth graders at one elementary school. The next year, it gave out 1,500 phones at 11 schools; and this year, 3,200 students at 18 schools now have Androids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_20565\" class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6659976191/sizes/m/in/set-72157628777364255/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-20565\" title=\"6659976191_5a16b0a624\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/6659976191_5a16b0a624-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr: Flickinger\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In the classroom, students log in and receive assignments, take quizzes and do research on their phones. The school has made certain apps available, including an online catalog for the library and reference books. Teachers also plan specific lessons taking advantage of the phones; for example, when students are studying 3-D objects, they watch a video and then take pictures with their phones. Afterwards, they open a drawing program, where they do work based on the image, and then send the work to their teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy ISD, like many other districts that embrace mobile technologies and other digital media, uses the social networking platform \u003ca title=\"Edmodo\" href=\"http://www.edmodo.com/\">Edmodo\u003c/a> to facilitate online work. Parents can log on to the site to view student grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"Inner Grove Heights Community Schools\" href=\"http://www.invergrove.k12.mn.us/\">Inner Grove Heights Community Schools\u003c/a> in Minnesota use Edmodo. Two years ago, the district didn’t even have wireless Internet access. But six months later, administrators made the decision to add wireless to all schools, elementary as well as high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers were using digital tools, and we were getting more and more requests to open online sites and make it possible for teachers to, for example, use video from the web in the classroom,” said Lynn Tenney, director of technology for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Inner Grove offers hybrid classes. Students meet three times a week in the classroom, and twice a week they work independently online. One year after implementing the program in standardized 12th grade English, the failure rate dropped from 63 percent to 13 percent, said Deirdre Wells, superintendent of the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factors other than technology, including a different set of students, could have contributed to the decline. Wells couldn’t put her finger on one specific reason for the extraordinary drop, but she pointed to factors like increased flexibility and freedom, which students loved. Also, she said, struggling students could stay in class those two days a week and get more one-on-one help from the teacher, while the more confident students were off doing their online projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The depth of thought and level of discourse gets much deeper when you add an online environment,” Wells said. The teacher can present information in class, and then the students are free to explore it online – they can look at other students’ work, or check out videos on YouTube. Time constraints are no longer a factor, the process becomes more individualized, and school becomes more relevant, Wells said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL ELEMENT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social aspect is certainly a big factor in these new learning environments. A fourth grader in the Saugus Union School District in Southern California, for example, posted a plea for help on a Saturday, saying he was struggling with his math homework. His math teacher saw the post and, using his own Macbook web cam, made a video of himself explaining the subject in more depth. He put the video online, and by the end of the weekend his post was filled with comments from students chiming in about the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jim Bosco of CoSN, these advances are absolutely key to providing real educations, not only to the “haves” but to the “have-nots” as well. Bosco grew up in Pittsburg, the child of Italian immigrants. His father had a fourth-grade education, and the Catholic school Bosco attended was less than ideal, he said. But Bosco happened to live within walking distance of a Carnegie public library branch, where he spent much of his free time. He still remembers being struck by the fact that his cousins, who lived 60 miles away in Newcastle, didn’t have access to all that he did by the simple accident of where they lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By being walking distance to that library, I had access to all kinds of information and really to all that human culture had produced,” Bosco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library of his childhood is like the internet today – a repository of “human culture and knowledge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have access to has traditionally been determined by money and location,” Bosco said. “But the internet has the potential to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) is working with school leaders from 13 districts to \u003ca title=\"collaborate on creating models for district-level digital media use policies\" href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/school-leaders-collaborate-on-best-practices-for-district-level-digital-med/\">collaborate on creating models for district-level digital media use policies\u003c/a> in K-12 education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COSN released a paper this month called “\u003ca title=\"Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media\" href=\"http://www.cosn.org/Initiatives/ParticipatoryLearning/MakingProgress/tabid/12543/Default.aspx\">Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The advantages of digital media now greatly outweigh the disadvantages and require that schools update their thinking and policies to provide guidance on the use of these tools to improve student learning and achievement,” the paper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It simply makes no sense, the paper argues, to try and keep students out of a world – a digital world – that is going to be paramount to how they live and work as adults. In fact, says Bosco, it’s not even possible to keep them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can build as big a moat as you want,” he said. “But it’s not going to work if for no other reason than they go home at night. A lot of people say, well, what they do when they get home is not my problem. But I think that seems borderline unethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>“You can build as big a moat as you want, but it’s not going to work if for no other reason than they go home at night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to Bosco, administrators at schools ought to be providing safe environments for students to learn how to be responsible digital citizens – not just protecting themselves from lawsuits by keeping the Internet out of the classroom and leaving kids to flail about when they go home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most powerful reasons to permit the use of social media and mobile devices in the classroom is to provide an opportunity for students to learn about their use in a supervised environment that emphasizes the development of attitudes and skills that will help keep them safe outside of school,” the CoSN paper reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Children’s Internet Protection Act requires Internet filters, but the changing thinking over the last two or three years is that maybe those “filters” aren’t best enforced by draconian AUPs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to colleagues in Finland, they say, how do you filter?” said \u003ca title=\"Jim Klein\" href=\"http://www.classroom20.com/profile/jimklein\">Jim Klein\u003c/a>, director of Information Services and Technology at the \u003ca title=\"Saugus Union School District\" href=\"http://www.saugususd.org/\">Saugus Union School District\u003c/a> in Southern California. “They say, our kids’ filters are in their heads. You do this by giving them a safe environment to educate themselves instead of sticking your head in the sand and pretending these technologies don’t exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t mean that students in Klein’s district have unfettered access to anything online. But Klein has a different approach to blocking. Instead of buying a commercial filter that blocks URLs, Klein, who uses only open source software, has created filters based on content. This means YouTube, for example, is available as a site, but a particular page – pornographic or hate-based – won’t be.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RELATED READING:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/dispelling-myths-about-blocked-websites-in-schools/\">DISPELLING MYTHS ABOUT BLOCKED WEBSITES\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/students-demand-the-right-to-use-technology-in-schools/\">STUDENTS DEMAND THE RIGHT TO USE TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/10/when-school-web-filtering-comes-home/\">WHEN SCHOOL WEB FILTERING COMES HOME\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Klein also said that when he’s building filters, he doesn’t work with the mindset of keeping out every kid who desperately wants to get around them – those kids are going to get access anyway, he said, whether by breaking through the filter or waiting until they go home. Rather, he sets out to prevent students from accidentally stumbling on something harmful or upsetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to understand the purpose of filters,” he said, “and change your assumptions about what you’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Klein was loosening the filter system, he spent a lot of time talking to teachers about what he was doing and why. Teachers have to be responsible for what happens in their classroom, Klein said. And the expectation has to be that students are responsible for their own behavior. His message of responsibility is echoed by the new CoSN paper and by other forward-thinking tech administrators at districts around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DISTRICTS FIGURING IT OUT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"Katy Independent School District\" href=\"http://www.katyisd.org/Pages/default.aspx\">Katy Independent School District\u003c/a> in Texas recently changed its AUP to focus on “responsible use,” said Darlene Rankin, director of instructional technology. “Digital responsibility is big.” Rankin said. “We’re teaching students how to operate in this new world. We wanted to change the wording in our guidelines because we don’t want students to accept them; we want students to be responsible for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do things ever go wrong? Of course. In the Katy ISD, one fifth grader did a search for and found videos of lap dancers. The parents, Rankin said, were irate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are going to happen,” Rankin said. “We talked to the parents – ultimately it was a great teaching moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"The depth of thought and level of discourse gets much deeper when you add an online environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Halverson, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said one of the problems schools are now facing over responsible internet use is a legacy of the last 20-plus years of what he called an “accountability squeeze” in the school system. There’s been so much focus on “holding schools accountable” that school administrators have been living in a culture of fear – fear of innovating, fear of trying something that might be messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research-driven intervention like changing the curriculum or bringing in new textbooks leaves no room for error,” he said, “which is never going to be the case with digital technology. Of course there’s uncertainty and variation in what they’ve been doing – just look at the state of algebra in inner-city schools. But you can certify a textbook. Everyone wants a magic bullet that will solve all problems, but it doesn’t exist. We need to lay off schools and let them innovate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy ISD has been innovating by distributing Android phones to students. Three years ago, the district gave 150 phones to fifth graders at one elementary school. The next year, it gave out 1,500 phones at 11 schools; and this year, 3,200 students at 18 schools now have Androids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_20565\" class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6659976191/sizes/m/in/set-72157628777364255/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-20565\" title=\"6659976191_5a16b0a624\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/6659976191_5a16b0a624-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr: Flickinger\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In the classroom, students log in and receive assignments, take quizzes and do research on their phones. The school has made certain apps available, including an online catalog for the library and reference books. Teachers also plan specific lessons taking advantage of the phones; for example, when students are studying 3-D objects, they watch a video and then take pictures with their phones. Afterwards, they open a drawing program, where they do work based on the image, and then send the work to their teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy ISD, like many other districts that embrace mobile technologies and other digital media, uses the social networking platform \u003ca title=\"Edmodo\" href=\"http://www.edmodo.com/\">Edmodo\u003c/a> to facilitate online work. Parents can log on to the site to view student grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"Inner Grove Heights Community Schools\" href=\"http://www.invergrove.k12.mn.us/\">Inner Grove Heights Community Schools\u003c/a> in Minnesota use Edmodo. Two years ago, the district didn’t even have wireless Internet access. But six months later, administrators made the decision to add wireless to all schools, elementary as well as high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers were using digital tools, and we were getting more and more requests to open online sites and make it possible for teachers to, for example, use video from the web in the classroom,” said Lynn Tenney, director of technology for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Inner Grove offers hybrid classes. Students meet three times a week in the classroom, and twice a week they work independently online. One year after implementing the program in standardized 12th grade English, the failure rate dropped from 63 percent to 13 percent, said Deirdre Wells, superintendent of the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factors other than technology, including a different set of students, could have contributed to the decline. Wells couldn’t put her finger on one specific reason for the extraordinary drop, but she pointed to factors like increased flexibility and freedom, which students loved. Also, she said, struggling students could stay in class those two days a week and get more one-on-one help from the teacher, while the more confident students were off doing their online projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The depth of thought and level of discourse gets much deeper when you add an online environment,” Wells said. The teacher can present information in class, and then the students are free to explore it online – they can look at other students’ work, or check out videos on YouTube. Time constraints are no longer a factor, the process becomes more individualized, and school becomes more relevant, Wells said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL ELEMENT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social aspect is certainly a big factor in these new learning environments. A fourth grader in the Saugus Union School District in Southern California, for example, posted a plea for help on a Saturday, saying he was struggling with his math homework. His math teacher saw the post and, using his own Macbook web cam, made a video of himself explaining the subject in more depth. He put the video online, and by the end of the weekend his post was filled with comments from students chiming in about the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jim Bosco of CoSN, these advances are absolutely key to providing real educations, not only to the “haves” but to the “have-nots” as well. Bosco grew up in Pittsburg, the child of Italian immigrants. His father had a fourth-grade education, and the Catholic school Bosco attended was less than ideal, he said. But Bosco happened to live within walking distance of a Carnegie public library branch, where he spent much of his free time. He still remembers being struck by the fact that his cousins, who lived 60 miles away in Newcastle, didn’t have access to all that he did by the simple accident of where they lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By being walking distance to that library, I had access to all kinds of information and really to all that human culture had produced,” Bosco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library of his childhood is like the internet today – a repository of “human culture and knowledge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_20398\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 396px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/screen-shot-2012-03-30-at-10-48-31-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20398\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-20398\" title=\"cell phones\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-30-at-10.48.31-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-30-at-10.48.31-AM.png 396w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-30-at-10.48.31-AM-320x206.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Getty\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Just a few years ago, the idea of using a mobile phone as a legitimate learning tool in school seemed far-fetched, if not downright blasphemous. Kids were either prohibited from bringing their phones to school, or at the very least told to shut it off during school hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these days, it's not unusual to hear a teacher say, \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/class-turn-on-your-cell-phones-its-time-to-text/\">Class, turn on your cell\u003c/a>. It's time to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard professor \u003ca href=\"http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=chris_dede\">Chris Dede\u003c/a> has been working in the field of education technology for decades, and is astonished at how quickly mobile devices are penetrating in schools. “I’ve never seen technology moving faster than mobile learning,” said Dede, who teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not necessarily surprising, given that a staggering \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/teens-clamor-to-smartphones-texting-and-girls-lead-the-way/2012/03/19/gIQAIxiLNS_blog.html\">80 percent of teens\u003c/a> have cell phones. This penetration of mobile devices in the consumer market has also wrought what Dede describes as a \"sea change\" in the education landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are talking about this being an inflection point,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/16/education/report-says-giving-ipads-to-auburn-kindergartners-increases-test-scores/\">Elliot Soloway\u003c/a>. Soloway is a professor at the School of Education at the University of Michigan, and a longtime proponent of mobile learning. \"It feels like something major is about to happen. It went from a silly idea, to, 'Of course it’s inevitable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>“I’m petrified that we’ll apply new technology to old pedagogy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Chapter-4/Mobile-phones-and-schools.aspx\">most recent data available\u003c/a> is from 2010, and indicates that 62 percent of schools allow cell phones to be used on school grounds, though not in classrooms. But both Dede and Solloway, who are closely involved in coaching schools on how to use mobile learning techniques, said a lot of progress has been made in just the past couple of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I'm hearing from schools more is that they've eliminated policies restricting using mobile devices for learning and they're interested in developing mobile learning programs as fast as possible,\" Dede said. \"We're going from districts fearing it and blocking it off to welcoming it and making it a major part of their technology plan. We’ll be surprised if a significant portion of districts aren’t using mobile learning inside and outside of schools soon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/01/19/apple-1-5-million-ipads-in-use-in-educational-programs-offering-over-20000-education-apps/\">1.5 million iPads have been deployed\u003c/a> in schools. That's not counting school-supplied \u003cem>non-\u003c/em>Apple devices, or the most ubiquitous device of all -- students’ own mobile phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classroom uses for iPads and cell phones are vast and varied. Some schools are replacing print books for apps that feature videos and interactive quizzes. Kindergarteners are \u003c!--more-->\u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/16/education/report-says-giving-ipads-to-auburn-kindergartners-increases-test-scores/\">learning to read using an iPad app\u003c/a>. Teachers are using tablets to \u003ca href=\"http://mineola.patch.com/articles/mineola-students-show-off-ipad-classroom-impact\">monitor student progress on “dashboards”\u003c/a> that show moment-by-moment test scores. Others are using cell phones to take \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/class-turn-on-your-cell-phones-its-time-to-text/\">instant polls in class\u003c/a> to gauge student comprehension. And more students are using smartphones, many of which have stronger processing power than their schools’ desktop computers, for instant fact-finding, calculating, mapping, and note-taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GUIDE TO MOBILE LEARNING\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21054\" title=\"Mobile Mind Shift Icon\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\">\u003c/a> article is part one of a multi-part series exploring mobile learning co-produced by \u003ca href=\"http://mindshift.kqed.org\">MindShift\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.spotlight.macfound.org\">Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\u003c/a>. In the coming weeks, we'll explore policy issues in schools and districts with integrating mobile learning programs, the latest in augmented reality, and best practices for mobile learning in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all these direct applications for learning, it’s easy to justify using mobile devices in school. But what real and lasting effect will they have on the “formal” learning equation? Will this become just another passing craze in the long line of fads that have swung through schools and classes in past years? What criteria are being used to gauge a successful mobile learning program?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For progressives who have been itching to use technology to deconstruct and redesign the current classroom model – one teacher parsing facts to 30 or more students quietly sitting at their desks who will be tested on what they can memorize – the idea of mobile learning holds great promise. Here's an opportunity to reach every student in a meaningful way. But unless traditional teaching practices morph to adapt and fully take advantage of what mobile devices can afford, some fear the promise will go the way of all the technology collecting dust in the corner of the classroom. Worse, it might eventually lead to what everyone unequivocally dreads: the mechanization of teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m petrified that we’ll apply new technology to old pedagogy,” Soloway said. “Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003ch5>RELATED READING\u003c/h5>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/are-we-wired-for-mobile-learning/\">ARE WE WIRED FOR MOBILE LEARNING?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/in-cash-strapped-schools-kids-bring-their-own-tech-devices/\">IN SOME CASH-STRAPPED SCHOOLS, KIDS BRING THEIR OWN DEVICES\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/to-ban-or-not-to-ban-schools-must-decide-cell-phone-policies/\">TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN, SCHOOLS WEIGH CELL PHONE POLICY\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s the classic cycle of old wine in new bottles that tends to happen when people get excited about the technology itself,” said Michael Levine, executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, which researches how media affects learning. (The new wine bottles being tablets and cell phones, of course.) “They buy all sorts of new technology, things like interactive whiteboards, and slap on old practices on the new devices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the latest available technology, schools are still using old delivery tactics -- like technology carts – taking iPads from classroom to classroom in schools that can’t provide a take-home device for every student. But that’s exactly the kind of short-term thinking that drives Soloway mad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cart of iPads will have as much impact on student achievement as a cart of laptops had -- which is pretty much zero,” Soloway said. “So lots of schools are going to be disappointed after a year of iPad use when they see no gains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually some schools \u003cem>are\u003c/em> seeing gains. A couple of very early findings show somewhat higher test scores; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt reported that students in one class who \u003ca href=\"http://mindshift.kqed.org/tag/houghton-mifflin-harcourt/\">used its algebra iPad app\u003c/a> showed \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmhco.com/content/student-math-scores-jump-20-percent-hmh-algebra-curriculum-apple-ipad-app-transforms-class\">a 20% increase\u003c/a> compared to those who used its textbooks; and in Maine, kindergarteners who used an iPad app for literacy scored 2 percent better than those who didn’t. “We’re pleased with such a short window of using iPads as instructional tools,” said Auburn Superintendent Katy Grondin in a \u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/16/education/report-says-giving-ipads-to-auburn-kindergartners-increases-test-scores/\">Bangor Daily News article\u003c/a>. “We are seeing it’s making an impact in learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_20426\" class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6660084813/sizes/m/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-20426\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/6660084813_d684b0e298-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr:Flickingerbrad\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But Soloway and others question whether any of the old pedagogy around algebra or literacy have been affected by the use of the devices in these early studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Publishers will create apps that support their paper textbooks – or they will port their paper textbooks over to a PDF and say, ‘See, we have an eTextbook.’ Publishers can't admit that their model is broken, that they are in the process of being disrupted,” he said. “All they can do is entrench further and talk even louder that they have the answer; that their apps are really exciting and will engage the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soloway challenges schools to think about what they’ve gained in student achievement through the use of devices. “We are using new technology to implement old pedagogy,” he said. “We are not exploiting the affordances of the new technology to give kids new kinds of learn-by-doing activities. Flash card programs for the iPad are too numerous to count. What a waste!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about student engagement, the buzzword that’s dominated edu-speak especially in reference to technology? Soloway said engagement \u003cem>will\u003c/em> go up when the iPad is used. “But engagement always goes up when technology is used -- laptops, even electronic whiteboards. School is deadly boring to the kids who are accustomed to the fast-paced digital world in which they live the moment the school bell heralds the end of school. So to say that iPads result in increased engagement is to say nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>POSSIBILITIES AND POTENTIAL\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what exactly does this idealized view of mobile devices for learning look like? It’s not easy to specify, or even outline. Each educator, each class, each school will have to find the best way to integrate mobile devices based on its student population. The opportunity of using mobile devices and all of its utilities allows educators to reconsider: What do we want students to know, and how do we help them? And what additional benefit does using a mobile device bring to the equation? This gets to the heart of the mobile learning issue: beyond fact-finding and game-playing – even if it's educational -- how can mobile devices add relevance and value to how kids learn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's not just one explanation. As mobile devices evolve and become ever more powerful and multi-functional, the answers will change. In the meantime, there are some things educators know for certain do make a big impact on learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's something in the design of mobile that lends itself to a different way of learning and interacting,” Michael Levine said. “It’s a way of developing a one-to-one personalized computer\u003cbr>\nin the classroom. There’s a powerful notion that you can walk away with the world at your fingertips.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In class, the mobile device provides the “one-to-oneness” that Levine said allows for what most educators agree is one of the most important tenets of a well-rounded education: personalized learning – students owning what they learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A child, for example, who’s learning about plant growth, can take pictures of the roots of a tree on her way home for school, Soloway said as an example. She brings it into class the next day, shares it with the teacher and other students, and they talk about what they’ve discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"To say that iPads result in increased engagement is to say nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But can’t a camera do the same thing -- or finding the picture of the root online or in a book? “Taking a picture for themselves is a lot different than getting one from a book,” Soloway answered. “A child owns the picture when the child takes it; it is meaningful to the student. When the child takes a picture with a phone, the child can then integrate the picture into an artifact that also contains a concept map, an animation, etc. In fact, the picture can be imported into a drawing program, then labeled with text. So it is more than a camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelley Pasnik, director of \u003ca href=\"http://cct.edc.org/person.asp?id=46\">Center for Children & Technology\u003c/a> agrees. “Having a personal device support your learning changes things up,” she said. “It’s different than having a computer lab down the hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closest students came to personalizing their learning before mobile devices was changing fonts on Microsoft Word programs. “Now you have your own collection of apps to choose from,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_20423\" class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6659988943/sizes/m/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-20423\" title=\"6659988943_48abe01d49\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/6659988943_48abe01d49-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr:Flickingerbrad\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But the apps shouldn't be the focus of discussion. “That’s where the pedagogical practice comes to play, a thoughtful use of tool sets. Having the apps sitting on your phone on your desk in and of itself isn’t going to make you smarter, and it won’t make the classroom more anything,\" she said. \"It’s what you do with it, and how it’s supported, how teachers and students know to learn, to use those tools. It’s part of a complex nature of learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for any this to succeed, the devices – whatever they may be – need to be integrated into a broader sequence of activities, not an isolated tool that sits outside of everything that’s going on, Pasnik said. But that’s exactly what first happens when new devices are introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a common first step -- it’s the ‘extra,’ it’s what kids do when they finish their ‘real’ work,” Pasnick said. “But when it’s really integrated into a sequence of activities, kids are moving between screens given what’s developmentally appropriate, they’re playing games. Some experiences use screens, then manipulatives or other materials, they’re engaged in conversations with peers and adults in the room. That’s where it works. There’s not this ‘privileging’ of this device. Instead, all of it is moving toward the learning goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using mobile devices as tools toward a learning goal is exactly what students at Catholic High School in New Iberia, Louisiana, are doing. Seniors at the school are using their phones to \u003ca href=\"http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/03/28/revisiting-cell-phones-bans-in-schools.aspx.\">convert historical information\u003c/a> they researched about their hometowns into QR codes that can be used on a walking tour they designed. Smartphone users can learn about historical sites by scanning the QR codes on their devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This project exemplifies the kind of learning-by-doing that mobile learning can be used for. Though the device makes it possible to create dynamic, interactive features like QR codes, one could argue that the learning equation of this project is not necessarily creating the QR codes (though there’s also an argument to be made about \u003ca href=\"http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/06/why-should-fifth-graders-learn-to-program/\">teaching tech\u003c/a>). The point at which kids learn is when they go into their community and research noteworthy historical sites to understand their significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>\"Polling devices are based on lecture. I would like to see teachers using different pedagogy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Students could have just as easily created individual print brochures that featured historical sites around town -- and the educational value would have arguably been comparable. What the mobile phone added was an immediacy to the task at hand. Was it imperative to the learning process? Probably not. But did the QR creation make the project more interesting, more relevant to their lives, and thus more personal for students? That’s what educators are betting on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to using cell phones for things like taking polls, that may not necessarily change traditional lecture-based teaching tactics. “I personally think there are better things to do in the \u003c!--more-->classroom than lecture,” Chris Dede said. “Polling devices are based on lecture. You’re not having a discussion about it, but getting a quick sense of what students understand and modifying lecture accordingly. I would like to see teachers using different pedagogy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/screen-shot-2012-03-28-at-10-02-19-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20405\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20405\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-03-28 at 10.02.19 PM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-28-at-10.02.19-PM-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>As a college professor, Dede thinks students can use their cell phones to have “back-channel” discussions that happen during discussions that happen in class. But even then, Dede doesn’t display the Twitter discussions on the board because he says students find it distracting. And if it’s distracting for college students, it would definitely be distracting for grade-schoolers. “Kids are still learning to type, they’re not as good as multi-processing. It’s all they can do to keep track of one thing that’s going on,” Dede said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the kinds of issues that are still being hashed out in schools: What's more distracting than helpful, what's just straight up utilitarian, what's helping students understand concepts better? What's allowing them to make a particular lesson more personal and relevant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>THE SOCIAL QUOTIENT\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way most classrooms are designed currently discourages social interaction in class. Desks are lined up facing front. But the social aspect of learning that’s been lost in the past decades, Levine said, can be leveraged with mobile devices. “So much of what research has taught us about child development, and even the most recent research on brain development, is that the social aspect -- relationships in the context of which you're motivated to learn, and the types of people who are encouraging kids to learn, that social aspect is fundamental to who we are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>It's imperative to focus the discussion on how to use devices not to mechanize and standardize, but to bring back the human, personal element to teaching and learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mobile devices seem to be -- at least in theory -- a real enabler of social interaction. \"They’re social learning objects,\" he said. \"Kids plug into their friends and families and important social networks. When you begin to combine features of mobility and socialness and access to every learning object you can imagine, that becomes more seamless and natural and interesting in terms of possibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This social connection is what helped at-risk kids do better and enjoy math more in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/07/mobile-learning-proves-to-benefit-at-risk-students/\">a pilot study called Project K-Nect last year\u003c/a>. Students collaborated with each other through blogs, instant messaging and email on their mobile phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>THE MOBILE FUTURE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From where we stand now, it seems that the mobile revolution in schools is inevitable. But as the hype around the wizardry of the technology escalates, it's imperative to focus the discussion on how to use devices not to mechanize and standardize, but to bring back the human, personal element to teaching and learning. Kids learning from each other, making what they learn personal and relevant, and giving educators more tools to reach students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because mobile devices are the new piece here, people want to know does it make a difference,\" Pasnik said. \"When we know that learning happens because of relationships, and we want to keep that richness. So the question of the value of a single piece like the mobile phone becomes reductive. You falsely are having to focus in one element, when in fact, learning happens because multiple elements are interacting with one another.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_20398\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 396px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/screen-shot-2012-03-30-at-10-48-31-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20398\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-20398\" title=\"cell phones\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-30-at-10.48.31-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-30-at-10.48.31-AM.png 396w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-30-at-10.48.31-AM-320x206.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Getty\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Just a few years ago, the idea of using a mobile phone as a legitimate learning tool in school seemed far-fetched, if not downright blasphemous. Kids were either prohibited from bringing their phones to school, or at the very least told to shut it off during school hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these days, it's not unusual to hear a teacher say, \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/class-turn-on-your-cell-phones-its-time-to-text/\">Class, turn on your cell\u003c/a>. It's time to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard professor \u003ca href=\"http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=chris_dede\">Chris Dede\u003c/a> has been working in the field of education technology for decades, and is astonished at how quickly mobile devices are penetrating in schools. “I’ve never seen technology moving faster than mobile learning,” said Dede, who teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not necessarily surprising, given that a staggering \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/teens-clamor-to-smartphones-texting-and-girls-lead-the-way/2012/03/19/gIQAIxiLNS_blog.html\">80 percent of teens\u003c/a> have cell phones. This penetration of mobile devices in the consumer market has also wrought what Dede describes as a \"sea change\" in the education landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are talking about this being an inflection point,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/16/education/report-says-giving-ipads-to-auburn-kindergartners-increases-test-scores/\">Elliot Soloway\u003c/a>. Soloway is a professor at the School of Education at the University of Michigan, and a longtime proponent of mobile learning. \"It feels like something major is about to happen. It went from a silly idea, to, 'Of course it’s inevitable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>“I’m petrified that we’ll apply new technology to old pedagogy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Chapter-4/Mobile-phones-and-schools.aspx\">most recent data available\u003c/a> is from 2010, and indicates that 62 percent of schools allow cell phones to be used on school grounds, though not in classrooms. But both Dede and Solloway, who are closely involved in coaching schools on how to use mobile learning techniques, said a lot of progress has been made in just the past couple of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I'm hearing from schools more is that they've eliminated policies restricting using mobile devices for learning and they're interested in developing mobile learning programs as fast as possible,\" Dede said. \"We're going from districts fearing it and blocking it off to welcoming it and making it a major part of their technology plan. We’ll be surprised if a significant portion of districts aren’t using mobile learning inside and outside of schools soon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/01/19/apple-1-5-million-ipads-in-use-in-educational-programs-offering-over-20000-education-apps/\">1.5 million iPads have been deployed\u003c/a> in schools. That's not counting school-supplied \u003cem>non-\u003c/em>Apple devices, or the most ubiquitous device of all -- students’ own mobile phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classroom uses for iPads and cell phones are vast and varied. Some schools are replacing print books for apps that feature videos and interactive quizzes. Kindergarteners are \u003c!--more-->\u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/16/education/report-says-giving-ipads-to-auburn-kindergartners-increases-test-scores/\">learning to read using an iPad app\u003c/a>. Teachers are using tablets to \u003ca href=\"http://mineola.patch.com/articles/mineola-students-show-off-ipad-classroom-impact\">monitor student progress on “dashboards”\u003c/a> that show moment-by-moment test scores. Others are using cell phones to take \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/class-turn-on-your-cell-phones-its-time-to-text/\">instant polls in class\u003c/a> to gauge student comprehension. And more students are using smartphones, many of which have stronger processing power than their schools’ desktop computers, for instant fact-finding, calculating, mapping, and note-taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GUIDE TO MOBILE LEARNING\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21054\" title=\"Mobile Mind Shift Icon\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Mobile-Mind-Shift-Icon-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\">\u003c/a> article is part one of a multi-part series exploring mobile learning co-produced by \u003ca href=\"http://mindshift.kqed.org\">MindShift\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.spotlight.macfound.org\">Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning\u003c/a>. In the coming weeks, we'll explore policy issues in schools and districts with integrating mobile learning programs, the latest in augmented reality, and best practices for mobile learning in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all these direct applications for learning, it’s easy to justify using mobile devices in school. But what real and lasting effect will they have on the “formal” learning equation? Will this become just another passing craze in the long line of fads that have swung through schools and classes in past years? What criteria are being used to gauge a successful mobile learning program?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For progressives who have been itching to use technology to deconstruct and redesign the current classroom model – one teacher parsing facts to 30 or more students quietly sitting at their desks who will be tested on what they can memorize – the idea of mobile learning holds great promise. Here's an opportunity to reach every student in a meaningful way. But unless traditional teaching practices morph to adapt and fully take advantage of what mobile devices can afford, some fear the promise will go the way of all the technology collecting dust in the corner of the classroom. Worse, it might eventually lead to what everyone unequivocally dreads: the mechanization of teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m petrified that we’ll apply new technology to old pedagogy,” Soloway said. “Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003ch5>RELATED READING\u003c/h5>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/are-we-wired-for-mobile-learning/\">ARE WE WIRED FOR MOBILE LEARNING?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/in-cash-strapped-schools-kids-bring-their-own-tech-devices/\">IN SOME CASH-STRAPPED SCHOOLS, KIDS BRING THEIR OWN DEVICES\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/to-ban-or-not-to-ban-schools-must-decide-cell-phone-policies/\">TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN, SCHOOLS WEIGH CELL PHONE POLICY\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s the classic cycle of old wine in new bottles that tends to happen when people get excited about the technology itself,” said Michael Levine, executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, which researches how media affects learning. (The new wine bottles being tablets and cell phones, of course.) “They buy all sorts of new technology, things like interactive whiteboards, and slap on old practices on the new devices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the latest available technology, schools are still using old delivery tactics -- like technology carts – taking iPads from classroom to classroom in schools that can’t provide a take-home device for every student. But that’s exactly the kind of short-term thinking that drives Soloway mad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cart of iPads will have as much impact on student achievement as a cart of laptops had -- which is pretty much zero,” Soloway said. “So lots of schools are going to be disappointed after a year of iPad use when they see no gains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually some schools \u003cem>are\u003c/em> seeing gains. A couple of very early findings show somewhat higher test scores; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt reported that students in one class who \u003ca href=\"http://mindshift.kqed.org/tag/houghton-mifflin-harcourt/\">used its algebra iPad app\u003c/a> showed \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmhco.com/content/student-math-scores-jump-20-percent-hmh-algebra-curriculum-apple-ipad-app-transforms-class\">a 20% increase\u003c/a> compared to those who used its textbooks; and in Maine, kindergarteners who used an iPad app for literacy scored 2 percent better than those who didn’t. “We’re pleased with such a short window of using iPads as instructional tools,” said Auburn Superintendent Katy Grondin in a \u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/16/education/report-says-giving-ipads-to-auburn-kindergartners-increases-test-scores/\">Bangor Daily News article\u003c/a>. “We are seeing it’s making an impact in learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_20426\" class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6660084813/sizes/m/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-20426\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/6660084813_d684b0e298-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr:Flickingerbrad\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But Soloway and others question whether any of the old pedagogy around algebra or literacy have been affected by the use of the devices in these early studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Publishers will create apps that support their paper textbooks – or they will port their paper textbooks over to a PDF and say, ‘See, we have an eTextbook.’ Publishers can't admit that their model is broken, that they are in the process of being disrupted,” he said. “All they can do is entrench further and talk even louder that they have the answer; that their apps are really exciting and will engage the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soloway challenges schools to think about what they’ve gained in student achievement through the use of devices. “We are using new technology to implement old pedagogy,” he said. “We are not exploiting the affordances of the new technology to give kids new kinds of learn-by-doing activities. Flash card programs for the iPad are too numerous to count. What a waste!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about student engagement, the buzzword that’s dominated edu-speak especially in reference to technology? Soloway said engagement \u003cem>will\u003c/em> go up when the iPad is used. “But engagement always goes up when technology is used -- laptops, even electronic whiteboards. School is deadly boring to the kids who are accustomed to the fast-paced digital world in which they live the moment the school bell heralds the end of school. So to say that iPads result in increased engagement is to say nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>POSSIBILITIES AND POTENTIAL\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what exactly does this idealized view of mobile devices for learning look like? It’s not easy to specify, or even outline. Each educator, each class, each school will have to find the best way to integrate mobile devices based on its student population. The opportunity of using mobile devices and all of its utilities allows educators to reconsider: What do we want students to know, and how do we help them? And what additional benefit does using a mobile device bring to the equation? This gets to the heart of the mobile learning issue: beyond fact-finding and game-playing – even if it's educational -- how can mobile devices add relevance and value to how kids learn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's not just one explanation. As mobile devices evolve and become ever more powerful and multi-functional, the answers will change. In the meantime, there are some things educators know for certain do make a big impact on learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's something in the design of mobile that lends itself to a different way of learning and interacting,” Michael Levine said. “It’s a way of developing a one-to-one personalized computer\u003cbr>\nin the classroom. There’s a powerful notion that you can walk away with the world at your fingertips.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In class, the mobile device provides the “one-to-oneness” that Levine said allows for what most educators agree is one of the most important tenets of a well-rounded education: personalized learning – students owning what they learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A child, for example, who’s learning about plant growth, can take pictures of the roots of a tree on her way home for school, Soloway said as an example. She brings it into class the next day, shares it with the teacher and other students, and they talk about what they’ve discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"To say that iPads result in increased engagement is to say nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But can’t a camera do the same thing -- or finding the picture of the root online or in a book? “Taking a picture for themselves is a lot different than getting one from a book,” Soloway answered. “A child owns the picture when the child takes it; it is meaningful to the student. When the child takes a picture with a phone, the child can then integrate the picture into an artifact that also contains a concept map, an animation, etc. In fact, the picture can be imported into a drawing program, then labeled with text. 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Having the apps sitting on your phone on your desk in and of itself isn’t going to make you smarter, and it won’t make the classroom more anything,\" she said. \"It’s what you do with it, and how it’s supported, how teachers and students know to learn, to use those tools. It’s part of a complex nature of learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for any this to succeed, the devices – whatever they may be – need to be integrated into a broader sequence of activities, not an isolated tool that sits outside of everything that’s going on, Pasnik said. But that’s exactly what first happens when new devices are introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a common first step -- it’s the ‘extra,’ it’s what kids do when they finish their ‘real’ work,” Pasnick said. “But when it’s really integrated into a sequence of activities, kids are moving between screens given what’s developmentally appropriate, they’re playing games. 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I would like to see teachers using different pedagogy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/amidst-a-mobile-revolution-in-schools-will-old-teaching-tactics-prevail/screen-shot-2012-03-28-at-10-02-19-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20405\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20405\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-03-28 at 10.02.19 PM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-28-at-10.02.19-PM-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>As a college professor, Dede thinks students can use their cell phones to have “back-channel” discussions that happen during discussions that happen in class. But even then, Dede doesn’t display the Twitter discussions on the board because he says students find it distracting. 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