למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

In a computer lab, even one consisting of laptops stored in a big metal box that is rolled from room to room, all the units are the same. Or essentially identical when booted.

All have the same software, identical desktops, files all in the same places, mapped to the same servers, and sometimes are even connected to a master unit that can take control of the whole lab.

And all the kids using them are expected to be doing exactly the same activities on each computer.

It’s a valid question, and I think the answer lies in a fundamental mistake we’ve made over the decades in the way we’ve taught kids and adults to use computers.

First, we must allow and encourage students to freely use their own computing devices in schools (and provide them for those families who can’t afford it).

And then completely revise both the curriculum and our approach to teaching to fit the new circumstances.

תוויות: 1:1, סלולארי, שימוש בבתי ספר

Are you ready for students creating their own wi-fi hotspots? You better be. Because this is the type of thing that more than anything suggests what the future looks like: it's mobile, it's accessible, what used to be public is personal and what used to be personal is public.

Better get to work on those new digital health classes you are going to be offering. You'll have a couple extra bucks to pay for 'em now that your Internet blocking software is obsolete.

תוויות: 1:1, סלולארי, פני החינוך

Sorry... but the credibility of the article suffers severely without a reference to the source and methods used to realize this data.

תוויות: העתקה-הדבקה, סלולארי

this is the time of the year when (at least since I was in college) some academic or other pronounces on how literacy has gone to the dogs and this generation is the most illiterate in human history.

Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again.

For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.

The overall pattern of results is pleasing: on every measure the children who were given mobile phones were found to outperform the children who were in the control condition ....

Texting sees children explicitly demonstrating an understanding of how words can be manipulated, segmented and blended to allow for succinct and successful communication. Indeed, many of the abbreviations that children use when texting are phonological reductions, such as ‘wot’ and ‘nite’. This form of abbreviation suggests the role that phonological awareness – awareness of the sound structures in spoken language - may play in mastering text language.

תוויות: כתיבה, סלולארי, קריאה, רכישת מיומנויות, SMS

but if technology makes something like staying in touch very, very easy, that’s (ההתנתקות) harder to do; now you have adolescents who are texting their mothers 15 times a day, asking things like, ‘Should I get the red shoes or the blue shoes?’

Out of a survey conducted amongst 1000 Brits, 75 per cent confessed they couldn't go without a mobile phone for more than 24 hours. And asked what they would rather give up for a month the survey revealed the following:

       62 per cent chocolate
       23 per cent alcohol
       8 per cent sex
       7 per cent mobile phone (!!)

So goes family life at a time when even that most basic of parental prerogatives -- to prod our children, to patiently remind them or flat-out harass them -- has shifted along with technology's advance.

תוויות: טכנולוגיה, סלולארי, SMS

When it comes to the Internet, parents are advised to put blockers on their computer and keep it in a central place in the home. But kids can have access to this on their cellphones when they’re away from parental influence — and it can’t be controlled.

תוויות: סלולארי

תוויות: בלוגים, הרהורים, סלולארי

Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed software aimed at turning cell phones into educational tools for K-12 students. Why? According to developer Elliot Soloway, cell phones cost a fraction of what a laptop costs but can do just about anything a laptop can do. As an added bonus, students are already bringing the devices to school with them.

This is the beginning of the future.... The future is mobile devices that are connected. They're going to be the new paper and pencil.

Soloway says this type of hands-on, reinforced learning is only possible when each student has his or her own device.

"People ask why every child needs a computer and why can't students just share," Soloway said. "Well, do you share pencils?"

תוויות: סלולארי

Almost exclusively we use computers as group technologies. We have a bunch of them in a lab and then bring in a bunch of kids to use them for some teacher-designed activity.

Or in schools that have laptop carts, we wheel them into a classroom, pass out the units, and then proceed, again largely with group activities.

... the iPod Touch, and other pocket computing devices, are intended for personal use. They are designed to be customized, personalizing the user’s experience so, instead of everyone seeing the same desktop, we all see ourselves in the device.

We just need to find people who are already using these devices in our schools (our IT department sees several thousand a day on the network) and invite them to tell us how they use their iPod Touch.

Undoubtedly they, especially the kids, will give us some insight we can’t get any other way.

תוויות: סלולארי

so-called smartphones can make students smarter.

is also talking to school districts in Chicago, San Diego and Florida about buying specially equipped phones for the classroom. It projects that wireless companies could sell 10 million to 15 million phones as a result of this effort in the next few years.

four North Carolina schools in low-income neighborhoods, where ninth- and 10th-grade math students were given high-end cellphones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software and special programs meant to help them with their algebra studies.

תוויות: סלולארי

School heads and parents were supportive of the project, and in fact some parents asked why their students were not involved!

In every case, other teachers became interested and involved, and the project teachers decided to continue using mobile phones. These champions of change have shown that, with good planning and anticipating class management and technical issues, using mobile phones can be a very productive way to augment access to tools for computing, communication and photography.

1. Timing experiments with stopwatch
2. Photographing apparatus and results of experiments for reports
3. Photographing development of design models for eportfolios
4. Photographing texts/whiteboards for future review
5. Bluetoothing project material between group members
6. Receiving SMS & email reminders from teachers
7. Synchronizing calendar/timetable and setting reminders
8. Connecting remotely to school learning platform
9. Recording a teacher reading a poem for revision
10. Accessing revision sites on the Internet
11. Creating short narrative movies
12. Downloading and listening to foreign language podcasts
13. Logging into the school email system
14. Using GPS to identify locations
15. Transferring files between school and home

At the outset, students were often surprised at the thought that mobile phones could be used for learning. They saw their phones as mainly for social uses, normally only using the camera to take pictures of parents or friends when socialising.

תוויות: סלולארי

Most kids carry a mobile phone with them that not only can receive text messages like the lifesaving one from Dr. Meirion to Dr. Nott. The devices kids carry increasingly are able to deliver messages, images, and the Web itself. We can save some minds in the young generation by transmitting the knowledge they need to learn so they can use it through their mobiles.

תוויות: סלולארי

They look like something out of Star Trek

Excuse me for being skeptical, but that’s one of the claims I’ve heard made for the whiteboards - and have yet to see.

And the few instructional examples noted in the article are pretty much the same as some of the very superficial whiteboard lessons I’ve observed.

I’ll put my money on relatively inexpensive portable devices that allow learning anywhere instead of large, expensive machines that are fixed to one classroom.

תוויות: טכנולוגיה, ניידים, סלולארי

In their working lives they will never need to carry enormous amounts of information around in their heads. What they will need to do is access information from all their sources quickly and they will need to check the reliability of their information.

Whether you think that allowing students to use tools like computers and mobile phones during an exam is a good idea or a bad idea is somewhat dependent on what you see the purpose of school to be. It also depends on your world view and whether you see information as scarce or abundant.

Where else but school are we given problems to solve and expected to do so in utter isolation? Isn’t all the workplace desired skills about collaborating, solving problems as a group? Has anyone in a job recently been required to go into a locked room, given a pencil and a bubble sheet and expected to solve a company problem?

תוויות: העתקה-הדבקה, סלולארי

Educators could think of GOOG-411 as a model for a learning network synapse/node. With a future edu-service, could a student input a query for current data for oceanography, astronomy, electoral polling — any of many location based subjects — and get the current data as quickly as Google now delivers your pizza? Sure. Somebody just needs to do it.

תוויות: סלולארי

The Internet’s role in future learning will be the delivery of the One Web through a mobile carried by the learner.

תוויות: אוריינויות, סלולארי

אבל במערכת החינוך יש מי שהבינו שמדובר במאבק אבוד והחליטו לנצל את יתרונות הסלולרי לטובת שיפור החינוך.

צריך לפתוח את דלתות מערכת החינוך בפני הטלפונים הסלולריים. יש לעודד את התלמידים להביא את הטלפונים הניידים לכיתה, ולא לאסור זאת עליהם.... מדובר בשיטת הוראה שאפשר גם ליהנות ממנה.

תוך כדי ביצוע פעילויות אלו, אשר חלקן מתבצע באופן אינדיווידואלי עצמאי במסגרת הכיתה והחלק השני בפעילות מתמטית שיתופית אותנטית בשטח, מפתחים התלמידים מושגים מתמטיים וחוקרים אותם.

תוויות: סלולארי