Three years ago, I predicted that the iPhone, and phones like it, would soon become everyday educational tools. Where are we up to with that? Having spotted this on the Orange website, I’d say we are now only a year away.
If Justin Bieber is endorsing a phone, then it must be cheap enough to appeal to the teenage demographic. Where this gets interesting is that this phone has a nice big touch screen and runs the iPhone’s open-source cousin, Android.
From September, then, you can expect an increasing proportion of your students to be carrying these powerful, permanently-connected computers in their pockets.
How will you respond?
- Will you feel threatened and try to suppress their use?
- Or will you see a great way to get around the resource limitation of not enough computers in the school, and embrace the possibilities?
Yacapaca 