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The mlearn2006 effect must be contagious. Athabasca University in Canada hosted the conference last year, and this year they are in the news for a pilot project using mobile learning to teach english grammar on their phones.
Excellent news!
It is a great subject area, because the learners are often very motivated, and there are ways of supporting language learning via all sorts of media, including podcasts, web, email, skype and of course SMS.
In this case they are doing grammar exercises, working both in and out of their learning center.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/02/09/text-classes.html
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The mlearn2006 effect must be contagious. Athabasca University in Canada hosted the conference last year, and this year they are in the news for a pilot project using mobile learning to teach english grammar on their phones.
Excellent news!
It is a great subject area, because the learners are often very motivated, and there are ways of supporting language learning via all sorts of media, including podcasts, web, email, skype and of course SMS.
In this case they are doing grammar exercises, working both in and out of their learning center.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/02/09/text-classes.html
The CBS article has some great learner and tutor quotes:
"You're controlling it, which is so nice," said Tracey Woodburn of Athabasca University. "A lot of people have been telling me, 'Oh, I can do this when I am watching my kid's soccer practice or when I am on the bus coming to school.'"
Student Fadieh Al-Kaloti said cellphone learning works well for her.
"You learn where you are ? in the bus or in the train or maybe in the plane," she said.
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Free resource from the BBC for the practising and learning of English where there are a great number of different materials. Something that you will find is: News English: English news with bold words, whose meaning is explained at the end of the article.Business...
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Our m-Ubuntu project in South Africa hits the news in USA! I have blogged about m-uBuntu before ? a growing family of schools in South Africa who are using ?cell phones? to transform how they teach. We have been out there a few times, and were very excited...
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The TUC is encouraging members of all their unions to take learning into their own hands ? and onto their own phones! If you don?t know unionlearn, they are the TUC?s learning champions, encouraging all trade union members to become learning activists....
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