Category Archives: Mobile learning

Tearing down the classroom walls

 We’ve recently spent some time on a new mobile learning platform, the MLN, or mobile learning network. Pretty soon you will be able to see it. In the meantime, let me, erm, talk about it! The old problem  The platform … Continue reading

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Two teachers

  Content and Language Integrated Learning, CLIL, is where language is taught through subject areas – math through English, for example.  (This is also known as immersion.) This week, I came across some CLIL initiatives in Europe, where the classrooms have two teachers … Continue reading

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Acting upon the theory

Some Friday afternoon thoughts … Although there is some original thinking in the edublogs – George Siemens, Stephen Downes – the vast majority of edublogging is derivative. That is to be expected, I guess. It helps to flesh out and … Continue reading

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The context of mobile learning

   We recently made a commitment internally to mobile learning at Praxis Language. I guess I’ll be talking a lot about it in the future. Here are some thoughts for today. One type of context In the past, schools provided … Continue reading

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New definitions of mobile learning

I’m thinking about mobile learning – how it will work, and why it is significant. Gary Woodill’s recent paper provides a simple, and helpful description: True mobile learning is personalized learning that unites the learner’s context with cloud computing, using … Continue reading

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