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Educational Software on Cell Phones
March 9, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
This is not videoconferencing – but I thought I’d share it considering the most recent poll we had here on whether mobile/cell phones should be allowed in classrooms. (See poll results. Check ‘overview’ & ‘country tabs’)
Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed software aimed at turning cell phones into educational tools for K-12 students. Why? According to the project overview:
Educational environments have responsibilities and obligations to provide students with tools that simulate real world learning environments. Mobile learning devices provide options that will lead to such conditions. In addition, cellular devices are updated periodically and provide means for access through the infrastructures that are built by such businesses.
Cell phones cost a fraction of what a laptop costs but can do just about anything a laptop can do. As an added bonus, students are already bringing the devices to school with them.
A pilot program using the software suite is currently underway at Trinity Meadows Intermediate School in Texas. Fifty-five fifth graders in two classrooms will be utilising the mobile computing devices.
