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Cell Phones Getting Push in Education, But Not Without Resistance

Filed under: Student Attendance by Karl Meinhardt

In higher education cell phone technology for learning and connecting with students makes undisputed sense. In fact, in 2008 Boston College decided not to give incoming students email accounts, but instead issued them forwarding addresses that students can point to any established digital identity they already have. It will be interesting to see how many [...]

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Origins of the Portland Project

Filed under: Academic Achievement, Student Attendance, The Portland Project by Karl Meinhardt

The project started simply enough. A very creative educator and counselor at George Middle School, Liz Delmatoff, found a clip of an NBC News segment I did on social media. She tracked me down and several phone calls worth of brainstorming later, I was booked to spend three days at GMS to help her team [...]

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