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Many of the learners on our m-learning projects started as very unconfident users of PCs.
One of the surprise findings was that involvement in mobile learning was a very solid launch pad into mainstream ICT learning. Mobile learners were building confidence to become ICT learners.
This finding has been confirmed in several LSN reports and papers
But what next? What are the tools you can use to inspire learners, and teach them about the web at the same time?
Here is a list of some great ones. if you live on the web, you see these apps everyday, but if you are only just starting, they are probably exactly what you need to start enjoying your new journey into IT.
Forget the primitive "this-is-the-mouse-and-this-is-a-monitor-and-this-is-the-CPU" genre. This is exactly what a cautious student does NOT need. Rather, get them into photography! Help them publish their holiday snaps. Record a tune.
The list, below, is only a small selection of ideas. I have posted it not with Blogger, but with a Google Notebook. Yet another great tool to help you publish yourself online, simply:
Notebook list of great, FREE, ICT-learning applications
- Two Great Apps For Your Phone - Podcasts And Vocopedia!
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- Top M-learning Reports Of 2012
Filtering out the best, so you don?t have to! Links to our top m-learning reports for 2012: You know that mobile learning has hit the mainstream when the big guys start to get it ? and 2012 is the year that this happened. With solid reports, and reviews...
- Google?s App Inventor ? Liberation Or Stagnation?
A year ago, Google released App Inventor ? a fascinatingly visual, albeit rather buggy tool for developing android apps. Although not robust enough for our commercial development, we loved the fresh ideas about interface, and app building. Perfect tools...
- M-learning In 2009: Predictions
The ever-charming Graham and his crew over at handheldlearning convinced a group of us to attempt a prediction about what would happen in the world of m-learning in 2009. Here were my thoughts, in a christmas-pudding-inspired pantomime stylee: Several...
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Great tools for learning about IT
Many of the learners on our m-learning projects started as very unconfident users of PCs.
One of the surprise findings was that involvement in mobile learning was a very solid launch pad into mainstream ICT learning. Mobile learners were building confidence to become ICT learners.
This finding has been confirmed in several LSN reports and papers
But what next? What are the tools you can use to inspire learners, and teach them about the web at the same time?
Here is a list of some great ones. if you live on the web, you see these apps everyday, but if you are only just starting, they are probably exactly what you need to start enjoying your new journey into IT.
Forget the primitive "this-is-the-mouse-and-this-is-a-monitor-and-this-is-the-CPU" genre. This is exactly what a cautious student does NOT need. Rather, get them into photography! Help them publish their holiday snaps. Record a tune.
The list, below, is only a small selection of ideas. I have posted it not with Blogger, but with a Google Notebook. Yet another great tool to help you publish yourself online, simply:
Notebook list of great, FREE, ICT-learning applications
- Two Great Apps For Your Phone - Podcasts And Vocopedia!
Learning any new language is a difficult process, and many people consider English to be one of the hardest languages to learn. Not only is English proficiency important for strictly English majors today, but it is also important in many fields of work...
- Core Apps For Ipad Teachers
Are you a teacher, using iPads in the classroom? Which tools, or apps do you use? Many conversations about mobile learning focus too much on the content itself. Starting from the distance learning / e-learning / content publishing end of the spectrum,...
- Top M-learning Reports Of 2012
Filtering out the best, so you don?t have to! Links to our top m-learning reports for 2012: You know that mobile learning has hit the mainstream when the big guys start to get it ? and 2012 is the year that this happened. With solid reports, and reviews...
- Google?s App Inventor ? Liberation Or Stagnation?
A year ago, Google released App Inventor ? a fascinatingly visual, albeit rather buggy tool for developing android apps. Although not robust enough for our commercial development, we loved the fresh ideas about interface, and app building. Perfect tools...
- M-learning In 2009: Predictions
The ever-charming Graham and his crew over at handheldlearning convinced a group of us to attempt a prediction about what would happen in the world of m-learning in 2009. Here were my thoughts, in a christmas-pudding-inspired pantomime stylee: Several...