I have been speculating about this for a while now. I predict within the next 3 years every student who shows up to High School will have a smart phone in their pocket. Teachers will either adapt or lose relevance.
Here are my previous posts:
Apple Wants Every Student to Have a Smartphone
Smartphone Classrooms Get Closer
Google Wants Every Student to Have a Smartphone
Why Every Student will have a Smart Phone
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Expert: Smart Phones Are the Next Classroom Computers | wltx.com
Smartphones as the computer in the classroom.
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An internationally known technology expert says smart phones will one day replace computers inside classrooms.
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“Schools are struggling so often with buying computers, but they’re making kids turn off their computers or leave them at home. Their computers being cell phones,” said former teacher and mobile technology expert Tony Vincent.
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“It sounds really cool. I thought they were really expensive but it sounds really good we can have all this stuff at our fingertips for so cheap,” said 14-year-old student Perry Kate.
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Kate says it all makes perfect sense to him and his peers. “We were just talking about it in class today. Imagine if everybody had secondhand iPhones instead of four or five text books.”
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By: Google now activates 500,000 Android devices every day – Google « Education Stormfront on June 28, 2011
at 11:17 am
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By: PCs Will Be Replaced By Tablets and Phones « Education Stormfront on September 15, 2011
at 11:39 am
I disagree with this as smartphones do not have the same functionality as a pc.
By: Tom on October 9, 2011
at 3:21 pm