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===Chapter 10: U-Learning? (Opener #9: Real-Time Mobility and Portability) === **Mobile Learning (Opener #9):** According to [|Dr. Paul Kim], Chief Technology Officer at Stanford School of Education, mobile learning will transform education around the planet. As of January 2009, there were 40,000 new mobile subscribers in Rwanda each week and 15.4 million each month in India. Across Africa, mobile penetration has exploded from just one in 50 people at the start of the century to more than 28 percent of the population as of March 2009. On a global basis, there are 60,000 new mobile subscriptions every hour! That equates to 720,000 more people who can learn online each day and tens of millions more people each month. In the [|Pocket School] project, the teacher is in the pocket of migrant worker children in Latin America.

 **Mobile Technology Giveaways (Opener #9):** Places like [|Abilene Christian University] are giving away [|iPhones] to incoming students as a means to attract new students as well as foster technology integration, Web access, and overall communication on campus. Not to be outdone, [|Oklahoma Christian University] has [|initiated a program] called [|InTouch] to give away both an iPhone (or iPod Touch) and an Apple Macbook laptop to incoming students. Such mobile technologies are used for survey research, Web searching, uploading and downloading course tasks, and course discussions.

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 * Watch this short video from Travis Allen, a 17 year-old high school student from Fayetteville, GA, as he discusses his plan for the iSchool Initiative. Now this is authentic assessment for authentic learning **

**While we can each list a number of ways mobile computing has enhanced our lives outside of education what have we done to implement real educational enhancements?**
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 * 2 -****Taking into consideration the preceding chapters, all the information and collaboration tools open and available for education, what role should mobile and ubiquitous learning play in public education? **


 * 3 -**** How has your school/system accommodated mobile technology and learning for both adult and student learners? If not what is the rationale and what are future trends? **


 * 4 - Research the viability of mobile technology as a learning and teaching tool. Search for articles, blogs, best practices on ways schools and school divisions are using mobile and portable technologies. Bookmark those key findings in the Diigo group.**

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