Mobile Devices in the Classroom

                         Mobile Devices in the Classroom

How many people do you know without a mobile device? The answer to that question is a lot different than it would have been five years ago. I can remember being in high school and the Administration having a zero tolerance policy when it came to cell phones. If they saw it, they would take it. Fast forward a few years and now it almost seems unthinkable to be able to limit the mobile device use of students because a huge majority not only have them but consider it a major part of their everyday life. The problem that now faces teachers and administrators is not how to restrict the use of mobile devices but rather how to incorporate these devices into the classroom and the teachers lesson plans.



This video gives a ton a great ideas on ways to use mobile devices when teaching. He talks about using the phones camera to take pictures and make videos that can later be used in class. He also talks about using it as a search engine, for showing podcast, or something as simple using it was a calculator or stopwatch. While none of these ideas seem that revolutionary, they are great ways to start to assimilate technology into the classroom and connect better with the interest of the students.

Mobile Devices in Classroom by hurdbrent

Works Cited

Merchant, Guy. "Mobile Practices in Everyday Life: Popular Digital Technologies and Schooling Revisited."British Journal of Educational Technology 5th ser. 43 (2012): 770-82. Print.

This article analyses mobile devices in our society and tells us different ways these can be integrated in our classrooms. Mobile devices have become such a major part of our daily lives that it is only logical that we incorporate them in our classrooms. The reason this is so important is because schools were very against cell phones and other mobile devices being used in the classroom when they first started appearing in the hands of teenagers but now times are changing and not only are they starting to accept them but this article goes become acceptance and talks about incorporation. Guy Marchant, the author, seems like a very credible resource. He is the professor of Literacy in Education at Hallam University. The article discusses many relevant topics that separate education from mobile devices and begins to give ways these devices can be used in the everyday classroom. I think these was very informative and I feel that professor Merchant was right to point out the divide between the use of mobile devices in our daily lives and the use of these same devices in our classrooms. These devices should definitely be used in the classroom for education because it gives students the opportunity to use unthinkable amount of tools for education right at their fingertips.

Mobile Learning Presentation. Dir. Eric Akselrad. Perf. Eric Akselrad. TeacherTube. Eric Akselrad, 04 Feb. 2011. Web. 30 Sept. 2013.

This video does a great job giving different ways to use mobile devices in the classroom. Schools are definitely working towards using mobile devices as educational tools but a lot haven't really made the transition yet. These video was made to show us different ways we could do this and I think it does a good job giving us different ideas.