Hi Everyone, I found this 2008 University of Nottingham study on Mobile Phones and secondary education, and thought it might be of interest. http://emergingtechnologies.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/lsri_report.pdf
Several interesting things caught my eye: 1. the fact that in many schools, students 'own' their mobile phones, not necessarily the computers. (Physical ownership and use feels good); 2. the list of 15 Useful Things Students Do with Mobile Phones (below) Could we use some of the 15 or more useful things to design appropriate and culturallly-relevant learning activities? What role could WikiEducator play in learning that uses mobile phones? *Fifteen useful things students did with mobile phones* 1 Timing experiments with stopwatch 2 Photographing apparatus and results of experiments for reports 3 Photographing development of design models for eportfolios 4 Photographing texts/whiteboards for future review 5 Bluetoothing project material between group members 6 Receiving SMS & email reminders from teachers 7 Synchronising calendar/timetable and setting reminders 8 Connecting remotely to school learning platform 9 Recording a teacher reading a poem for revision 10 Accessing revision sites on the Internet 11 Creating short narrative movies 12 Downloading and listening to foreign language podcasts 13 Logging into the school email system 14 Using GPS to identify locations 15 Transferring files between school and home -- Randy ________________ Randy Fisher * Change/Transition & Program/Project Support * Stakeholder Engagement, Collaboration & Performance * Community Building & Organization Development * eLearning & eCoaching * Open Source & Open Education + 1 604.684.2275 wikira...@gmail.com http://www.wikieducator.org - Member, WikiEducator Community Council http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher * Can You Do the Wiki-Wiki? http://www.wikieducator.org/Wiki_Wiki Skype: wikirandy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
