Using+ICT+in+classrooms

Cellphones in schools
Engaging students in learning means using strategies that appeal. Their world is ususally broader, wider and more flexible than the four walls we are tempted to try to contain them within. Cellphones are part of the communication strategies students take for granted, and these have been causing genuine problems for schools for some time lately. But if you have a look at this Campbell Live clip, you may find a way to get students using these to positively shift their learning.

Here's another spin on cellphone use in classrooms. Toni Twiss, 2008 eFellow and Media Studies teacher, talks about her research into the potential for using mobile technologies in the classroom. Toni worked with 2 teachers trialling the use of mobiles for polling, voice recording, blogging, and accessing information. media type="custom" key="6488105"

** MLearning in schools **
MLearning? Mobile Learning!!! Nathan Kerr is a really motivated teacher from Howick College in Auckland who made the news last year when he talked about how his low decile students are using cellphones to download and use lesson, and the hugely improved outcomes he is seeing as a result. He believes in the power of making use of technology to teach new things in new ways. In this EDtalk Nathan explains how mLearning -the provision of digital information on portable devices- can open doors for learning any time and in any place. media type="custom" key="6488101"