Comments on: Student Cellphone Presentation http://ideasandthoughts.org/2008/06/19/student-cellphone-presentation/ Learning stuff since 1964 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:09:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ilyas http://ideasandthoughts.org/2008/06/19/student-cellphone-presentation/comment-page-1/#comment-29811 ilyas Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:51:07 +0000 http://ideasandthoughts.org/?p=656#comment-29811 Wow technology is indeed affecting all parts of life. I guess this post is an answer to all the people who think cell phone is made just for talking to people, keeping alarm, checking time, music and playing games etc. This defiantly is called moving in right direction. Thanks for great post..... ilyass last blog post..1 Wow technology is indeed affecting all parts of life. I guess this post is an answer to all the people who think cell phone is made just for talking to people, keeping alarm, checking time, music and playing games etc. This defiantly is called moving in right direction. Thanks for great post…..

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]]> By: Derek http://ideasandthoughts.org/2008/06/19/student-cellphone-presentation/comment-page-1/#comment-29779 Derek Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:17:27 +0000 http://ideasandthoughts.org/?p=656#comment-29779 Thanks for sharing this presentation. You have a lot of really great research material and it's good to see mobile learning moving from theory into actual practice. I found the discussion about the parents reactions to the use of mobiles very interesting. I spoke with a teacher who had a similar experience after introducing blogs into his classroom. The parents were very upset and didn't see the educational value. He held a "Blogging 101" class for parents and explained the benefits of blogging and then had the parents set up their own blogs. Once they started blogging and learned more about the technology, they were much more open and supportive. I think, as you point out, that it's important to educate parents (and other teachers) on how technology will be used in an educational context. Great work. Dereks last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/derekeb/~3/314094837/the-mobile-inte.html" rel="nofollow">The Mobile Internet Generation</a> Thanks for sharing this presentation. You have a lot of really great research material and it’s good to see mobile learning moving from theory into actual practice. I found the discussion about the parents reactions to the use of mobiles very interesting.

I spoke with a teacher who had a similar experience after introducing blogs into his classroom. The parents were very upset and didn’t see the educational value. He held a “Blogging 101″ class for parents and explained the benefits of blogging and then had the parents set up their own blogs. Once they started blogging and learned more about the technology, they were much more open and supportive. I think, as you point out, that it’s important to educate parents (and other teachers) on how technology will be used in an educational context.

Great work.

Dereks last blog post..The Mobile Internet Generation

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