The Innovative Educator blog shares process suggestions for schools in evaluating policies and practices related to mobile devices (e.g. smart phones) in this post.
Shocking/sad stat: 63% of teachers surveyed said these devices have “no place” in schools.
From the U.S. Department of Education’s 2010 National Educational Technology Plan: A graphic organizer depicting a vision for “21st Century learning” in which technology provides both increased opportunities for individualized learning experiences and new media for collaboration between and among students, teachers and mentors. Click on the graphic for a magnified view.
(BTW, if you follow the link above to the National Educational Technology Plan home page, you’ll notice there’s an embedded YouTube video introduction by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. If the nation’s top education official is using YouTube to communicate federal policy and vision, isn’t it time K-12 schools stop blocking access?)
