3+Mobile+Learning

__**Mobile Learning**__
Advantages of Mobile Computing
 * Affordable
 * Portable
 * Accessible
 * Easier to use than some desktop computers
 * Enough functionality to serve as your primary computing device
 * Often, less IT support is required

Learning Activities
 * Take pictures and video to create slideshows and short movies
 * Explore the web/research
 * Develop spreadsheets, documents and presentations
 * Brainstorm/pre-writing using concept maps
 * Draw and animate
 * Podcast and blog

See a 5th Grade Classroom Using Mobile Devices to Learn

Mobile Search
 * Google SMS (Just text a search to 466453)
 * Google 411
 * Google Mobile

Poll Everywhere

Podcasting with Phonecasting 1 (877) 448 3402

“The mobile market today has nearly 4 billion subscribers, more than two-thirds of whom live in developing countries.” 2010 Horizon Report @http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/

A recent survey predicts that by the year 2020, most people in the world will be using a mobile device as their primary means for connecting to the Internet. Future Of The Internet, New Media Ecology [[@http://%E2%80%A8www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp| www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp]]