-Mobile+Learning+Spaces

=Mobile Learning Spaces - In Schools to Anywhere=

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Mobile devices include such things as smart phones, iPads, iPods, PDAs, tablets, e-book readers, gaming consoles, media players, etc. Mobile learning occurs when these portable devices are used to access learning material. There are many advantages of using mobile devices for learning, among those being the ability to instantly attain information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from any location. The mobile device can also be used to communicate and collaborate with others on a project or an assignment. Mobile devices are increasingly transforming learning in the classroom and facilitating "ubiquitous" anywhere, anytime learning. ======

The following presentation provides a good overview of mobile learning.
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**The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition places mobiles time-to-adoption horizon to one year or less.**
====Over the last several years, some schools have already incorporated the mobile iPods and PDAs into their teaching and learning. This school year 2011-2012 many middle schools across the country received grants to equip their students with the Apple iPad. Recent research on the effectiveness of the iPad in classrooms shows promising results. Despite the use of some mobile devices in the classroom, the ban on cell phones still exists in most schools across the nation. ====

==//**Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, says students are never without their cell phones and we need to use their cell phones to teach them, deliver content, and extend their learning beyond the school day.** //==

====Sales of advanced mobile technology have increased dramatically. It is predicted that smart phones will outsell all other computing devices in 2012. ====

====More and more business are providing smart phones to their employees now. Not only for communicating and collaborating, but they are also using them to provide training, or just in time training that their employee may need for a particular task. ====

====Cell phones are being used constantly for many purposes. It is just a matter of time until schools lift the ban and start using these mobile devices to deliver curriculum also. **Learning in 2025** will no doubt still include World Wide Web, but the technology we use to access it will have changed. ====

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Below is an interesting info-graphic on mobiles and learning.
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Upside Learning (2010). The Advent of Mobile Learning Technology. [Slide presentation]. Retrieved from:@http://www.slideshare.net/UpsideLearning/the-advent-of-mobile-learning-technology?from=ss_embed=====

PBS/Frontline (Juley 28, 2009). School: There's an App For That? [Video File]. Retrieved from: @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/school-theres-an-app-for-that.html

Abilene Christian University. Fall 2011: New iPad Studies demonstrate promising future for use in Higher Education. [website]. Retrieved from:@http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/research/ipad-studies.html