cell phones in anchorage 2010
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Please Turn Your Cell
Phone ON!
brianc. housand, phd
East Carolina Universityhttp://brianhousand.com
http://brianhousand.com
Techie
Researcher
Educator
Gifted
26 Years Ago
Motorola's first
commercial cell phone
cost $3,995
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/
Ideas to Bring Cell Phones Above
the Desk
Nielsen says that 46 percent of the 20 million young consumers known as "tweens" are using mobile phones.
On average kids get their first cell phone between the ages of 10 and 11
years old.
About 55 percent of tweens, who own cell phones, send text messages and 21 percent download ringtones.
Key Opportunities in Mobile Learning
1. Encourage “anywhere, anytime” learning
2. Reach underserved children
3. Improve 21st century social interactions
4. Fit with learning environments
5. Enable a personalized learning experience
Goals For Mobile Learning
1. Learn: Understand mobile learning as a unique element of education reform
2. Develop: Build mobile learning interventions
3. Promote: Engage the public and policy-makers in defining the potential of mobile devices for learning
4. Prepare: Train teachers and learners to incorporate mobile technologies
5. Stimulate: Generate new leadership support for digital learning
“ The kids these days are not digital kids. The digital kids were in the ’90s. The kids today are mobile, and there’s a difference. Digital is the old way of thinking, mobile is the new way.”
Elliott Solloway
• Note Taker
• Capture White Board
• Scanner
• Novelty Notations
• Creativity Scavenger Hunt
• Photo Blogging
It’s a Cell Phone, It’s a Camera!
http://filmonthefly.ning.com/
http://www.koce.org/filmonthefly/
With Google SMS, never say, “I don’t know” again.
Text your search query to
GOOGLE or 466453
If your students can
the answer, then you may be asking the wrong question.
http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html
What Is It?
• www.polleverywhere.com• Live audience polling using text
messaging
Cell Phones Offer Access Anyway Anyhow Anywhere
What Are We Going To Do With This Pervasive Technology?
Are Cell Phones the Answer to 1 TO 1 Computing?
T Y V M
N E ?
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