Group activity: Consider uses of mobile technology in your school or workplace. Upload to Group blog and present in class.
Responses from Never too Late:
Possible application:
I) Workplace : Project / employee management system
- Mobility: staff members are not confined to physical space (like staying in the same office)
- Providing a communication channel and common working platform to share idea and synchronize data
II) School: Individual teaching and learning tool
- Allow instant feedback on both answering, marking and reporting processes
>>> imagine if the teacher could post questions, quizzes etc, students could text their answers to a server which could a) mark it, b) record their marks in a student’s file, c) tell the teacher of that mark and d) provide feedback to both teacher and students. The would eliminate many repetitive and time-consuming tasks for teachers. The teachers can never need to spend further time to mark homework and quizzes.
Issues to concern
- Education purpose (before: social communication only)
- Critical thinking on the use of technologies
- Saving time and cost
- Compatibility of hardware and software, technical ability or knowledge to handle the machines or software
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How to develop critical thinking of students in evaluating the uses of mobile technology in schools is also important, because, they are the users, not only use it for the sake of their learning purpose, transfer and apply to other areas, but also need to analyse the pros and cons in using mobile technology that enhance independent thinking.
ReplyDeleteRegina
Referring to your example about providing automatic feedback using mobile technology, you are absolutely right that it can really help teachers and students save a lot of time. I am just wondering how mobile technology stands apart in this example. It seems that automatic feedback can be done effectively even with non-mobile technology.
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