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Defined STEM – Training Center – Introduction
“Defined STEM provides teachers a resource where they can access highly effective media content and valuable resources to enhance the teaching and learning within the classroom. These resources and materials allow teachers to connect STEM with existing lessons, interdisciplinary content, and standards-based curriculum. “
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Welcome to the Professional Development LiveBinder for ISTE’s Mobile Learning SIG.
The focus of the resources in this binder is information educators can use for their own professional growth as it relates to professional and instructional use of various mobile technologies.
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“Mobile Reach””
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Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere
“Poll Everywhere?
The fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility” -
Dipity – Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines
“Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web’s content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. “
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UDL Book Builder: Public Library Books
“Public Library Books
Books published here are the work of individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the view or ideas of CAST. Browse, explore, enjoy, and flag your favorites!” -
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain | Video on TED.com
“Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically “teenage” behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain.”
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100 Mobile Learning Apps Across 10 Categories For iPhone (& iPad!) | TeachThought
“ome pretty amazing educational implications for gadget enthusiasts. As a result, some innovative developers out there provide hundreds of hours of engaging content meant to get anyone of any age up and learning about the world.
With seemingly endless possibilities for education on the iPhone (ed: & iPad!), there are a lot of great apps that students, educators, and even administrators can enjoy. We’ve shared 100 of the best of them here, and we encourage you to put them to work in the new school year.”
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15 Great Free iPad Apps for Professional Development
” iPad , I have compiled a list of some of the best free apps that you as a teacher and educator, can install on your iOS device. The list is not exhaustive and there might be other important apps not mentioned here but the ones below are a great stepping stone into the world of self learning.”
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Create interactive classes with ease – Using the Nearpod Content Tool, simply upload a pdf or start a new presentation and add interactive features.
Share content in real time – Push information, questions, and activities to students’ mobile devices.
Engage students – Multimedia content harnesses students’ attention, keeping them focused and minimizing off-task behavior.
Control students’ devices – Teachers can see all student activity in real-time, check attendance and identify students who log out from Nearpod. -
“Collaborate with educators across the hall or across the globe.
Find Common Core lessons from awesome educators just like you and contribute your own. You can even work on lessons with other teachers in real time” -
Apps in Education: PianoPad – Keyboard App with great features
“PianoPad the app not only allows you to record a keyboard performance but also to email it to others or to your teacher. You can record, playback or just email the performance. Here is an music app developed by a music teacher for the music classroom.”
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Endeavour Mated to SCA Time-Lapse – YouTube
“At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour is mounted atop NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, in preparation for its ferry flight to California. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, will fly Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era.”
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“ISTE developed the NETS with input from the field and pioneered their use among educators.
The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) are the standards for learning, teaching, and leading in the digital age and are widely recognized and adopted worldwide. The family of NETS—NETS for Students (NETS•S), NETS for Teachers (NETS•T),”
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“Digital Age Learning
ISTE’s NETS for Students (NETS•S) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge students need to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly global and digital world.Simply being able to use technology is no longer enough. Today’s students need to be able to use technology to analyze, learn, and explore. Digital age skills are vital for preparing students to work, live, and contribute to the social and civic fabric of their communities. “
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“Digital Age Teaching
ISTE’s NETS for Teachers (NETS•T) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach, work, and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society.As technology integration continues to increase in our society, it is paramount that teachers possess the skills and behaviors of digital age professionals. Moving forward, teachers must become comfortable being co-learners with their students and colleagues around the world. “
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Solving These iPhone Puzzles Is A Treat — AppAdvice
“whatever type of puzzle you enjoy, there is almost certainly an app for it. Maybe more than one! We’ve compiled a list of some of the best of each “genre” of puzzle game, so that every puzzle lover will find a favorite.”
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How to Shoot and Edit Video on your iPad, for Free
“free. This time round, I decided to see just how intricate I could get in terms of a video that was created completely on an iPad. So I started downloading some programs and shooting some video and here’s the results of my experiment.
First off, there are not as many video editing apps as I had thought there might be. Not in the free area anyway, so if you’re looking for a potential business idea, there you go, a great, free video editing app for the iPad perhaps in a freemium model or ad supported, etc.”
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Speed Up Camera Shutter Slowdown On Your iPhone And iPad [iOS Tips] | Cult of Mac
“simple way to make things move a lot faster when trying to take a quick action shot with your iPhone.
All you really need to do is delete all the pictures on your iPhone or iPad. Just don’t carry them around with you in the Camera Roll, and the Camera shutter will open a lot faster. There are several ways to do this.”
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The ultimate guide on how to annotate PDF files on the iPad
“the ability to annotate PDF files is one of the main reasons for buying an iPad. There are hundreds of apps out there that let you annotate PDFs: how do you know which one is the best one for you?”
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Cassini HD for the iPad lets you take a trip to Saturn today | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
“The app features a variety of views of our ringed planet and 20 of its satellites. Each image has an explanation sourced from NASA/JPL. You can swipe from image to image, or use a drop-down menu to explore the images. “
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50 Popular iPad Apps For Struggling Readers & Writers | TeachThought
“iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle”
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20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading | TeachThought
“As anyone with a toddler knows, iPads are addictive for children. They seem to have some sort of special radar that lets them know when an iDevice is within their reach, and they’ll do anything they can to get their hands on them. Resistance is futile, but instead of lamenting excessive screen time, you can make your child’s iPad addiction a productive one with educational apps, including those that promote early reading.”
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Collect Student iPad Creations with Edmodo – HCSMobile
“This video outlines how the Edmodo app can be used to collect student created IMAGES and VIDEOS from a classroom set of iPads.”
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A Robot With a Delicate Touch – NYTimes.com
“Baxter, the first product of Rethink Robotics, an ambitious start-up company in a revived manufacturing district here, is a significant bet that robots in the future will work directly with humans in the workplace. “
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“Kids photo challenge = great fun + creativity + learning”
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Cool New Stuff – K12 Handhelds
“This section of our web site is devoted to cool new mobile technology.”
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“101 Uses
This is a list to spark your imagination about different ways to use your handheld computer in education.”
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Streetside Stories » Stories. Learning. Community.
“Through the power of storytelling, Streetside Stories cultivates young people’s voices to develop literacy and arts skills, fosters educational equity, values diversity, and builds community.”
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“The m4Lit (mobiles for literacy) project is about using mobile phones as a way for teens to read and write. We provide mobile novels (m-novels) to read, as well as invite writing in the form of reader comments and writing competitions, all on mobile phones.”
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The future of education in Africa is mobile (BBC article, UK version) | Steve Vosloo
“using mobile technologies to distribute educational materials, support reading, and enable peer-to-peer learning and remote tutoring through social networking services. Mobiles are streamlining education administration and improving communication between schools, teachers and parents. The”
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Informal (m)learning: youth and camera phones | Steve Vosloo
“How do youth socially and communicatively interact with their mobile phones?
How can mobile phones be used to document their lives?
And in a world of global communications, can this mobile device be a conduit for increased cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity?” -
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Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand – Project Based Learning and iPads/iPods
“Not only do projects motivate students because they use exciting handheld technology, but they also lend themselves to student voice and choice. Watch or read below to be inspired to bring project based learning into your classroom, learn strategies for creating effective driving questions, and see how an iOS handheld can play a role in the planning, research/investigation, and presentation of projects.”
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“Burns was one of 18 schools in the world selected to participate in a program that relies on amateur radio volunteers to help connect schoolchildren with astronauts while in orbit.
The Daytona Beach Amateur Radio Association teamed up with the Oak Hill school to make the project a success. “ -
Connecting iPads and Reading in the Classroom: Part 2 « Inside the classroom, outside the box!
“Other strategies I use with the note option is have the students write the main idea of the page, infer what happened in a certain part of the book or tell me about the cause and effect in a section. You can have the students do any reading strategy with the note. I often tell teachers, anything you do with a sticky note in a book, you can do in iBooks.”
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Watch Learning Without Frontiers | Handheld Learning Episodes | Blip
Learning Without Frontiers is a global platform for disruptive thinkers and practitioners from the education, digital media, technology and entertainment sectors who come together to explore how new disruptive technologies can drive radical efficiencies and improvements for learning whilst providing equality of access.”
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