Category Archives: Education

Wifi on the schoolbus

This is an excellent example of the impact a seemingly simply (and, I might suggest, obvious) innovation can have. New York Times: Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall

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Uruguay gives laptops to every public primary school student

Uruguay has completed their plan of equipping every student in the country’s public primary schools with an XO Laptop computer. The final count of the computers was 396,727 laptop computers. The project is not completed because not all of the … Continue reading

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Why are we slow to adopt technology for education?

For the past year, I’ve been researching the integration of technology in education, and most recently the use of cell phones, as I mentioned in a recent post. What I have seen is that the use of communication technology in … Continue reading

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Cell phones in education

I’m preparing a 1cr. workshop on the use of cell phones in education to be offered through the Leapfrog Institute here at the University of Minnesota this fall. I thought I’d share the bibliography so far. At least some of this will probably be of interest to readers. If you know of more interesting literature, blogs, etc. on this topic leave a message in the comments. Click more for my annotations.
Exam students can ‘phone a friend’. (2009). Ananova. Retrieved August 1, 2009, from http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3391974.html
Coopman, T. M. (2008). Toward a pervasive communication environment perspective. First Monday, 14(1). Retrieved April 9, 2009, from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2277/2069
Costabile, M. F., Angeli, A. D., Lanzilotti, R., Ardito, C., Buono, P., & Pederson, T. (2008). Explore! Possibilities and challenges of mobile learning. Paper presented at the CHI 2008.
Edweek.org (2009). Cellphones as Instructional Tools Retrieved August 1, 2009, from http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=lobby.jsp&eventid=154461&sessionid=1&key=F6D1D2D288709C1B15A12F74A57B0660&eventuserid=26731318
Hartnell-Young, E., & Heym, N. (2008). How mobile phones help learing in secondary schools. Nottingham, UK: Learning Sciences Research Institute – University of Nottingham.
Kolb, L. (2008). Toys to tools: Connecting student cell phones to education. Washington, D.C.: International Society for Technology in Education.
Librero, F., Ramos, A. J., Ranga, A. I., Trinona, J., & Lambert, D. (2007). Uses of the cell phone for education in the Philippines and Mongolia. Distance Education, 28(2), 231-244.
Prensky, M. (2005). What can you learn from a cell phone? Almost anything! Innovate, 1(5).
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Encyclopedia Britannica will open up – just a little bit.

Encyclopedia Britannica (EB) seems to have decided that the general public might just be a useful resource for gathering the knowledge of the world. Several years ago they were none too happy with Nature’s evidence-based claim that Wikipedia was no … Continue reading

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Opening Up Education – Free collection of excellent articles

Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge is a timely and relevant collection of articles about the need to, and ways to, integrate formal and informal learning. The book has been … Continue reading

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