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Mobile technologies are beginning to interface with Web 2.0 tools, immersive virtual worlds, and online environments to present educational opportunities for traditional and nontraditional learners within communities of learners. The use of Web 2.0 tools to build new community learning ecosystems by today’s students using cell phones, mp3 players, and iPod devices to stay connected will be discussed in the context of digital citizenship. The use of simulations and virtual environments to build learning spaces that provide connections to students globally will be explored. How these 21st century digital interfaces will challenge the educational institutions of K-12 to create a more rigorous, immersive, and differentiated learning environments will be presented.
Students today depend upon store-bought ink. They don’t know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write words of ciphers until their next trip to the settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern education
The Rural Teacher, 1929
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Franklin, T.J. (2011). The Mobile School: Digital Communities Created by Mobile Learners. In: Wan, G., Gut, D. (eds) Bringing Schools into the 21st Century. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0268-4_9
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