Online Learning Update

July 20, 2017

Are smartphones in class a problem or an opportunity?

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By STEVE BUCKSTEIN, the World

As one high school teacher put it in an Atlantic magazine article on this subject last year, “If educators do not find ways to leverage mobile technology in all learning environments, for all students, then we are failing our kids by not adequately preparing them to make the connection between their world outside of school and their world inside school.” The bottom line is that, while smartphones in school can be a distraction, they can also pave the way to better, more efficient use of educational resources. It is up to us as adults to harness their power for good instead of just bemoaning their power to distract.

http://theworldlink.com/are-smartphones-in-class-a-problem-or-an-opportunity/article_dedb0973-1a2a-58a8-91ae-3228a146ec5d.html

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