nowadays the concept of teaching has totaly changed after the introduction of virtual learning in schools. because now internet has become cheap, available in most of the village, also government has been trying to give better and quality education in a very affordable cost. The devices related to computer like laptop, netbook, tablet are become easy to purchase.
If we could make the lessons to read in ebook format, then it would be a trtremendous change in education. sreekumar On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Valerie Taylor <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps now would be a good time to set up a BYOD Bring Your Own > Device working group to address using mobile, personal and pocket > devices in open learning. > > I'm looking into smartphones and tablets in education. I teach at a > community college and I am working with a K-8 science and technology > school, so that pretty much covers the education spectrum. I see kids > with these wonderful learning environments in their pockets at school > and everywhere they go. I want them used as much for learning as they > are for entertainment. Sooo much potential! Now if we can just figure > out how to make it happen... > > There are plenty of challenges but that's what WE are good at! > WikiEducators are a very resourceful lot so collaboration on this > topic seems like a natural thing to do. > > With over 650,000 apps out there finding the "good" ones is a big job. > Figuring out how best to use these devices to support learning is > really interesting and important. > > Are you working on specific projects? Have you resources, lists, > information that you would be willing to share? Have you prepared > guides, tutorials for students and/or faculty? Have you thoughts, > ideas about pedagogy that we are going to need to think about? > > Perhaps there is an opportunity to compare notes and/or pool > resources. I'm open to suggestions. > > ..Valerie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
