John Evans , a wonderful technology educator from Canada, sent me the study Children's Use of Mobile Phones: An International Comparison. Published by GSM Association and the Mobile Society Research Institute within NTT DOCOMO in February 2009. The document is over 60+ pages long, but I wanted to summarize one of the interesting finds; the number of students who own and use mobile phones. They studied children ages 9-18 in Korea, Japan, India, Mexico, and China. MORE >>

Several recent reports have shown that Australia has just about the highest uptake of smartphones and ‘mobile’ computers in the world. In Queensland, Optus reported that by October 2011, 55% of regional phone owners (traditionally a sector that lags behind in gadget adoption) had a smartphone ([link]. This high uptake of mobile computers could mean that Australia is a key place to observe the move from computers being seen mainly as specialised machines that sit in their own category, to one where they are readily available at hand to enhance learning. phone? link]. MORE >>

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Yesterday I ran across a twitter post by Hall Davidson about a very interesting mobile phone video challenge sponsored by a local PBS station in California called Film on the Fly. On February 2nd, 2009 the contest will send out a text message challenge (story) to anyone who signs up and ask them to create a mobile video of the topic in 20 hours or less! Since many students do not have camcorders in their cell phones, they could give a video or still photo option for the challenge. myself cannot wait to participate and SEE the results! Since drop.io MORE >>

Five social networking and social media infographics that have application to mobile learning: both within an organization and between a company and it’s clients from CreativeFan’s list of 60 great infographics for social media. Presentations Social Media executives infographic mobile phones mobile technology SFNCR social mediaEven more interesting is that 76 percent of executives check these social sites at least once per day. Mark Horton, Socialcast ). via  60 Informative Social Networking and Social Media Infographics | CreativeFan. elliance.com. MORE >>