Follow the link, and you will encounter a short blog entry with the power to ask several different questions about cell phones... the author mentions cell phones as participants in the large educational puzzle in which we all soon will be involved. What's more, follow the link she provides to the Cooper interview article and read up on an interesting cell phone phenomenon.
Her blog does beg a specific technological question which perhaps some of us have already considered... are cell phones (and iPods!) really so anti-educational? I've heard of the benefits of iPods for educators, and this author mentions a program that is marrying cell phones and math... so would it be better to just resist the urge to prohibit cell phones and iPods in school and instead make them beneficial for students?
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And, this author has other blogs available with links. Check it out.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/
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Educators as a group tend to find all that is 'wrong' with a technology first ... and then, upon realizing that the kids will not give it up, finally take the time to see its application to teaching and learning. We are sometimes our own worst enemy. I am glad you are asking these questions.
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