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Transition Phase of Smartphones from Toy to Tool

11/26/2015

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It has come as an open truth that smartphones these days have transformed from toy to tools in classrooms. They are slowly but steadily shifting away from the toy category and have fallen into toy-and-liability-to-attention category. Smartphone, in general, has emerged as a platform where different students meet each other. However, this tool could be made quiet engaging for students and could be helpful for them with its different approach.
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A Powerful Participation Tool
Smartphones encourage participation in classes. Many a times, kids are shy or ashamed to ask questions. So they can text their questions to their respective teachers. The smartphones can also be used for note making when there is an important session going outside the class. They can also opt for voice recording. Phones could also be used for taking pictures of class assignments or lecture images.

Enhanced Literary Units

There are many teachers who have made their smartphones work like literary units. Here, you can choose a particular piece of literature, and create a Google+ community for class. The students in this case use smartphones to access and participate in that community.” The students hence can read novels on their smart phones.

Cooperative learning through apps

The teachers can also employ apps in her classroom, while incorporating phones into weekly lessons. Here students work in groups to ensure that the students who don't own smartphones aren't singled out.

Keeping the Focus

Teachers can help out students to keep their focus on the task by inning them to G+ community for the shared task. Here she can see who posts in Google+ and responds to surveys in her forums.

​Tips for Getting Started

Here are a few tips to get started with smartphones into classroom activities.
  1. Get Comfortable With Your Smartphone
  2. Start With a Conversation
  3. Fix Rules of Engagement
  4. Set Expectations
  5. Do Periodic Check-Ins
 
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Online Research a Stepping Stone to Success

11/20/2015

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If you are a research student, you need to remember the basic formulae to attain success. You need to remember that writing a researched document isn’t just limited to surf wikipedia or searching Google search bar.
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Overall, research is the process of carrying reluctant readers, to the details of data, statistics, testing and theory. Hence you need to remember the following points while pursuing your research:
1.Wikipedia is a valuable tool, but you have to be cautious
A good researcher has to make sure that he considers Wikipedia as a secondary source and not as his main source of research. He needs to remember a good rule of thumb to verify and backup anything he finds in Wikipedia with a non-Wikipedia related source. However, Wikipedia could still be a valuable tool for research.
2. Use something other than a common search
The quickest and easiest way to find the topic of your research is to put a phrase into a search engine and dig out data from the first few pages of results.
3. Search Specific Resources
A researcher should try to go-to research tools (besides that basic search) that will extend a helping hand to you not only on research specific topics but will also give new ideas for new posts. A few of them are:
Google Trends: This is a free service that shows you trends in search activity all over the world. You get an access to maps, charts, and other tools.
Google Scholar: This tool is meant to search scholarly articles, books, abstracts, court opinions and theses.
Infomine is yet another resource used by researchers. It is similar to Scholar, a search engine that dips into the “invisible” web. It has databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library etc for scholarly research.
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