Can Cellphones Be Educational Tools?

In the special education issue of Sunday magazine this weekend, articles about mobile phones cite their father's words and explain why they do not want it to 11-year-old son Andreas. Distraction; this is a shift ... he needs to concentrate on his homework. "The article will then continue to explain how schools and students can use their mobile phones for education and learning. Do you have a mobile phone? Will it distract you from your research? How can you convince your parents and teachers that mobile phones can be educational tools?

This summer, at the free training camp of the New York Science Museum in Queens ... children used Nexus One smartphones and the children tested carbon dioxide in the air with a probe to pull the Bluetooth signal to the phone. , Particulate matter and noise pollution. Andreas's job is to use his cell phone to measure idle bus and truck pollutants. Andreas and his team found that the bus is idle for up to 14 minutes.

This project is part of the urban learning network experiment for new young people, assuming that most children already exist in the digital world. The network is very interested in mobile devices: "Anytime, anywhere - regardless of the way you learn" is described by its co-founder Diana Roten. "You can not stick to the desktop."

Another new mobile app has a tool called NOAH that uses this to take pictures of errors and trees in the photos of mobile phones and then send back the exact kind of logo in just 24 hours and record historical land You can provide a service-like logo to the mark. Partnership between History Channel and Foursquare

Student: Whether in the classroom or outside the classroom - Please tell me how you feel about using your phone as an educational tool. How does your teacher use the telephone on the course? How can you (or you) use them to learn? If you have a cell phone, do you agree that it will distract you from your academic record?

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Interestingly, mobile phones are forbidden and there are many reasons for mobile phones to become very useful educational tools. Mobile phones, especially smartphones are powerful mobile computing devices. If the phone has access to the Internet, students can use them to find information online. The phone also serves as a calculator and a camera. Unlike iPad, e-book reader, tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, these devices are everywhere. Furthermore, as the statistics show, SMS seems to be a preferred way for young people to communicate.

Mobile phones contain many educational apps that can help us add more knowledge. I am doing homework everyday with mobile phones, so I think that mobile phone is very educational as a student. My cell phone is very useful if you need to find word definitions, use Google Translate, or display e-mails to get the latest information on important schools. Google Drive is another application many students use to write essays and create PowerPoint and video. This application can be used on a computer, but students like to use their own phone. Google Drive is a free application for students who may not have computers at home.

It is time to wake up to educational officials, it is time to admit that students have cell phones and can not go anywhere. Fighting it will only delay what is unavoidable. The phone will stay here - it will catch up with the trend or stay in the dust. Why do I know if these students think it is the language of the Earl Gray public school class? Do you play games in the bathroom? When I was in school - elementary school and college - I did not participate in the class discussion, I will call it. Does this mean to bow your head to read the back of my third water bottle this week and draw a cube over the liner? I am still doing these things, these discreet things do not affect the content, but I'll keep on feeling with some very boring lessons.