Classroom learning with Mobile Phones!
In an article entitled ‘The Future of Mobile Technology: Learning on the Run’, the writer states that ‘one in three children aged between 5 and 9 owns a mobile phone’. Therefore with there being such a high number of students (even from an early age) owning a mobile phone, teachers should take advantage of this tool with learning in the classroom. A mobile phone can be used as a camera, a videocamera, a calculator, a television, a mini-computer with access to the internet and with the use of bluetooth and and the fact one can talk on it, it becomes a very powerful tool for communication.
In this article, the author states how a certain person who may have no interest in going to University who may not own a computer and may not even have the interest to own a computer, and yet they will own a mobile phone. Therefore by ‘working on an unthreatening device (such as a mobile phone) and working up to a larger more powerful computer eases people back into formal learning’.
I found this article very interesting as it shows how mobile phones can be used in the classroom, and I believe that the use of mobile phones have a place in the classroom, but may need to have its boundaries of places and times. While there are many positive ways for mobile phone use, there is also the chance that bullying may occur via the use of the phones. Also as technology continues to improve and update, and older technology dates, is it possible to keep up considering the young age of the users and their lack of income? The way of the mobile phone being a teaching and learning tool in the classroom is close but not near enough. The mobile phone although it is common, is not owned by all yet.
