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MOBILE LEARNING IN K-12 CLASSROOMS: IT’S COMPLICATED

Parents are mostly positive about their perceptions on how the new mobile devices like smartphones and tablets will be used to benefit education.  A just-released survey from Grunwald Associateshttp://www.grunwald.com/pdfs/Grunwald%20Mobile%20Study%20public%20report.pdf, the Learning First Alliance and AT&T  found that the most enthusiastic about the possibilities for mobile devices in education tend to be parents whose children already [...]

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Social Media Week in New York: John Katzman and Jeremy Johnson Interview

“If you’re not going to do it well  then don’t get involved in social media and MOOCs,” says John Katzman in an interview about HigherEd Learning.  Jeremy Johnson says that unless you can create the social experience of college online (more like Facebook than Blackboard) you’ll get it wrong.  Listen to this fascinating interview about [...]

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Time for the Kids to Become the Online Teachers

Change has always been the domain of the young. From the end of the Vietnam War to the Arab Spring, it’s not parents who are out there advocating change, it’s the youth. In the online world, it’s time to get kids, especially the web-savvy ones, to take a stronger role in their own safety and [...]

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CEA Executive Board Elects Three New Members to CEA Foundation Board of Trustees

10/19/2012| 03:29pm US/Eastern CEA Executive Board Elects Three New Members to CEA Foundation Board of Trustees Arlington, VA - 10/19/2012 - The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® Executive Board elected Bruce Borenstein, president and CEO of Voxlinc LLC, Julie Kearney, vice president of regulatory affairs for CEA, and Robin Raskin, founder of Living in Digital Times to the CEA Foundation Board of Trustees [...]

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