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A powerful tool to improve their education is already in kids' hands. Cell phone delivery of knowledge to learn could richly supplement traditional book/print methods obsolete very soon. The two key factors are:
1. The students already have the cell phones in developed countries and are getting them very fast even in the least developed parts of the world.
2. Multimedia technology is maturing quickly on the cell phone screens.
A very immediate and practical way to improve education for kids right now is to push getting learning material to the cell phone screens!
1. The students already have the cell phones in developed countries and are getting them very fast even in the least developed parts of the world.
2. Multimedia technology is maturing quickly on the cell phone screens.
A very immediate and practical way to improve education for kids right now is to push getting learning material to the cell phone screens!
UPDATE: Cellphone / mobile use for learning 2008
We are almost there
The rest of the modules on this lens were written 1082 days ago, according to the Squidoo calculator (as of November 22, 2008). Everything I wrote those 3 years ago has made slow but exciting progress! With the Sidekick craze, Blackberry crack addiction, and iPhone phenomenon -- and the new cellphone name "mobile" -- we are at the edge of mobile learning.
The tipping point will be in 2009. Keep up-to-date here. My ongoing current commentary on mobile use of open online learning content is at my blog GoldenSwamp.com that this lens feeds.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byCan the little phones really work for learning?
Yes. The first link here is an overview of the potential, and the second an example of it already happening.
- One expert's opinion
- What Can You Learn from a Cell Phone? Almost Anything! From Innovate June/July 2005
- Reading books on cell phones
- In Japan, reading books on cell phones is done by thousands of people.
What does it take to develop cell phone tutorials?
The software for developing cell phone screen displays is still in its infancy, but is growing up very fast.
- Envisioning the Mobile Future
- Macromedia's Gary Kovacs describes his vision in EDGE
- Macromedia Flash Lite
- Macromedia's software for building Flash mulitmedia movies for cell phone screens
- Smashing Ideas
- An example of animated cell phone screen content
What is already happening for learning on cell phones?
The tip of the iceberg is in view.
Cell phones are already being use to learn in a variety of formats.
- Kaplan Mobile SAT, ACT and PSAT 2005
- Students drill to prepare for the SAT and other tests.
- Japanese novel-reading
- More about the thousands of Japanese who are reading novels on their cell phones
- Very little kids are doing it,
- Leapfrog is selling spelling and other cell phone tutorials
- WAPedia
- Wikipedia is available on your cell phone screen.
Growth of cell phone use
Not only are cell phones popular in developed countries
The day is likely to come that a laptop computer will be the standard learning tool for students - replacing textbooks, notebooks, typewriters, calculators, and backpacks. For now, though, the cell phone is already in the hands of huge and growing numbers of kids across the planet.
Pornography proves cell phone screens deliver!
If porn can do it, why not education?!
Sad to say, the education establishment dragged their feet when the Internet became capable of delivering multimedia for learning. Pornography jumped in as soon as the new medium was effective. Perhaps the surest test of cell phone delivery of visuals and compelling materials sequences is the pornography has now tested the new cell phone medium and found it worthy. Hopefully, educationists will move on to the phones without delay.
- Porn and the Internet
- Some even say that the pornography boosted the World Wide Web expansion, many surfers choosing broadband connections just to download porn or have real-time video chats.
- More on cell phone porn
- Protecting kids from pornography one cell phones
- The so-called "adult" services are expected to be subscription-based only, but ads for them may pop up on anyone's tiny screen. And that spells danger, particularly for young men, according to Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the American Family Association.
- Parents can nix porn
- Of course what comes into the phones - especially for small children - can be controlled by parents.
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