for teachers) An American wireless industry trade group, Mobile Learning 09, CTIA, a , plans to start making its case for the educational value of cellphones. This article on The New York Times advocates for cell-phones as an educational tool that can be used in the classroom, pronouncing that the only difference between smartphones and laptops now is that cellphones are smaller, cheaper and more coveted by students. This document was actually written in 2005. Tagged: cellphones , educational tool , technology. Well this might be our future! Let’s see. MORE >>

Since the majority of students both at secondary schools and universities have a mobile phone at hand most of the time, Mobile Learning (M-learning) could be a new tool for assisting learning in future. Since the eighties, the mobile phone has been transformed from an pricey item used by business types to a truly popular communications tool that’s used by most of the general population. Carriers that operate on the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) such as Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile use a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card. MORE >>

tools, including Moodle, reside--possible. Its now possible for families to afford a $300 device, much cheaper than a flat-panel television set, and the cost of wireless connection to watch online services like Hulu and Netflix. ubiquitous access to digital technologies can provide teachers and students new ways of constructing, representing and sharing knowledge When used effectively within the curriculum, digital technologies can be powerful tools to motivate and stimulate learning and to foster connections with families, the community, and beyond. Not sure. MORE >>

skip to main | skip to sidebar Questio Verum The adventures of academia, or how I learned to stop worrying and love teacher evaluations. Thursday, December 31, 2009 ACU, iPhones, and Wired My sister, an ACU alumnus, emailed me a few weeks ago an article on Wired.com about her alma mater: How the iPhone Could Reboot Education. This is the second time Wired has written about ACUs iPhone/iPod initiative ; ACU was the first university to give all incoming freshmen an iPhone or iPod Touch in an experiment to see how useful the devices could be in an academic setting. See student comment #4.) MORE >>

Low Processing Power Intel released 300MHz-700MHz desktop CPUs in 1998, and released XScale processors with clock speeds in that range for PDAs and mobile devices last year (2005). In 2005, PDAs such as the Dell X50 were released featuring resolutions of 480×640 (although most mobile devices continue to be produced with a screen resolution of 320×480 or less). Technologies such as 3rd Generation cellular networks, wireless broadband, Bluetooth and 802.11 Convergence Desktop computing brought together many tools into a single device. « Welcome. MORE >>