My name is Karen Mahon. I am a Learning Scientist and Educational Psychologist and my passion is helping teachers and kids to find and use truly effective instruction. I’m also very interested in Leadership and Innovation.
I have spent the last 15 years working in education technology…from designing instructional software for special ed and regular ed students, to designing and conducting teacher training programs, to developing global digital content strategy for an interactive classroom technology company. I believe that with the use of plentiful formative assessment data to guide our instructional decision-making we can truly improve “educashun” for our kids!
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Hi Karen,
I just read your paper, Using Student Response Systems to Improve Student Outcomes. Nice work!
I’m cofounder of an #edtech startup in Portland, OR called Celly http://cel.ly/school that creates a cellphone learning platform for schools. Our platform lets schools utilize cellphones and text messaging for school response systems, interactive walls, study groups, reminder alerts, field trips, outreach and tiplines, notetaking, etc.. We’ve collected many anecdotes from our fans about why cellphones in the classroom work. In particular we’ve heard many use cases for student response systems . If you are interested, we’d love to chat with you. Thanks so much for advocating SRS tools.
Very sincerely,
Russell Okamoto
Cofounder Celly
http://cel.ly/school
224-357-6646
Hi Russell- Thank you so much for your kind words about my whitepaper! I had a lot of fun writing it. I would be VERY interested in learning more about what you and your company do. I am convinced that BYOD will be the wave of the future and that developing countries may well skip over tablet solutions entirely and go straight to phones.
I would be very interested in chatting with you further to learn more. I am currently out of the country, however, so would you mind sending me your email address to karen@disruptlearning.com?
Thanks again so much for reaching out!
Karen