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Discover best practices and quality standards for determining the educational value of emerging mobile devices. Access the mobile app resource center and explore top-ten mobile devices and cutting-edge apps.
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ARE ALL MOBILE DEVICES EQUAL WHEN IT COMES TO TEACHING ~ LEARNING? • Robbie K. MeltonAssociate Vice Chancellor for Mobilization & Emerging TechnologiesTennessee Board of Regents
Learning Objective: • Learning Objective: Participants will receive best practices and quality standards for determining the educational and workforce value of emerging mobilization devices and resources. They will also gather information on how to access the new mobile add resource center that aligns mobile apps to over one hundred subject areas and by devices.
Session Overview • This session will provide strategies on how to manage and maintain outdated, current, and emerging technologies for teaching and learning, implementation of BYOD, the educational impact and features of the top-ten mobile devices and showcase cutting-edge mobile apps, standards of quality in assessing apps as either effective teaching and learning tools and devices as toys or tools.
Everything is Amazing and No One is Happy • http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8m5d0_everything-is-amazing-and-nobody-i_fun
Tablets are proving to be powerful tools for learning inside and outside of the classroom.
Tablets have gained traction in education because users can seamlessly load sets of apps and content of their choosing, making the tablet itself a portable personalized learning environment.*The NMC Horizon Report > 2013 Higher Education Edition
Relevance for Teaching, Learning, Research, or Creative Inquiry • § Many disciplines now have mobile apps dedicated to deeper exploration of specific subjects, from the elements of the periodic table to the histories of art movements. • § Mobile apps facilitate content creation through the use of cameras, microphones, and other sensors and tools that are inherent in many smartphones. • § More universities have developed apps that share real-time grade information with students, along with maps, news, and other features that better connect learners to their campus.
23 Mobile Apps Educators Should Watch in 2013 go.nmc.org/watFrom scanning documents on-the-go to creating presentations, this article explores some of the most effective, multipurpose apps for teaching and learning. (Davide Savenije, Education Dive, 13 December 2012.)
Research Shows Mobile Apps Help Students Learn go.nmc.org/emadx A study from the University of Maryland found that mobile apps enhanced learning experiences for students. (David Ottallini, University of Maryland News Desk, 28 August 2012.)
Apps for Common Core • Common Core Standards There’s An App for That!http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/tl_201301_v2/index.php
Blooms APP Taxonomy http://ctl.mesacc.edu/blooms/