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Does Social Media Breed Learner Laziness?, Shelley Kinash, Jeffrey Brand
Does Social Media Breed Learner Laziness?, Shelley Kinash, Jeffrey Brand
Jeffrey Brand
Extract As new technologies grow in popularity, the associated cognitive and moral worries, concerns and questions intensify. The current devices of choice are smartphones, tablets and laptops. People primarily use them for texting, social media and massive multi-player online games. Parents and teachers are concerned, asking questions such as: are people losing the ability to [offline] socialise; is the current technology too addictive, in that children need to be forced to pick up a book or go play outside; is abbreviated and phonetic messaging interfering with people’s spelling and grammatical skills.
Innovation In Education, Debborah Smith, Jeffrey Brand, Shelley Kinash
Innovation In Education, Debborah Smith, Jeffrey Brand, Shelley Kinash
Jeffrey Brand
No abstract provided.
Playing E-Textbooks Ends The Stale, Mate, Jeffrey Brand
Playing E-Textbooks Ends The Stale, Mate, Jeffrey Brand
Jeffrey Brand
No abstract provided.
Uncoupling Mobility And Learning: When One Does Not Guarantee The Other, Shelley Kinash, Jeffrey Brand, Trishita Mathew, Ron Kordyban
Uncoupling Mobility And Learning: When One Does Not Guarantee The Other, Shelley Kinash, Jeffrey Brand, Trishita Mathew, Ron Kordyban
Jeffrey Brand
Mobile learning was an embedded component of the pedagogical design of an undergraduate course, Digital media and society. In the final semester of 2010 and the first semester of 2011, 135 students participated in an empirical study inquiring into their perceptual experience of mobile learning. To control for access to technology, an optional iPad student loan scheme was used. The iPads were loaded with an electronic textbook and a mobile application of the learning moderation system. Eighty students participated in ten-person focus groups. Feedback on mobility and the electronic text was positive and optimistic. However, the majority of students were …