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This article shares that mobile phones can be a powerful learning aid. It gives some examples of using mobile phones in teaching and learning.
Pinger lets you trade voice messages with anyone's mobile phone. It's better than voicemail because there's no ringing or lengthy prompts. It's more personal than text because it's your voice. Plus you can send a Pinger message to a group with one call. Pinger is free and works on any US mobile phone.
With all the talk about Amazon’s Kindle, there’s a bigger revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will be horrified. In Japan, half of the top ten selling works of fiction in the first six months of 2007 were composed on mobile phones.
In a spring/summer 2006 evaluation of the educational effectiveness of cell phone video streaming technology, parents reported an increase in their children's knowledge of the alphabet, and in their own initiation of literacy-related activities with their children, suggesting a promising new tool to increase early literacy skills. The evaluation was designed to assess the level of acceptance of cell phones as a medium for delivering educational content to parents of preschool children and to assess any effects and differences between participants living in households at or below the poverty line and those living above the poverty line. The PBS KIDS Ready To Learn Cell Phone Study: Learning Letters with Elmo found the video content and delivery pairing made the most impact among those participating households at or below the poverty level, compared with those living above the poverty line.
All the advances schools and colleges have made to supposedly enhance learning — supplying students with laptops, equipping computer labs, creating wireless networks — have instead enabled distraction. Perhaps attendance records should include a new category: present but otherwise engaged.
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