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+ Cell Phones as Mobile Learning Devices Brian C. Housand, PhD East Carolina University http://brianhousand.googlepages.com
Motorola's first commercial cell phone cost $3,995
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357 Average number of text messages a month 204 Average number of cell phone calls a month
1,742 Average number of text messages a month for 13‐17 year olds 428 Average number of text messages a month for ‘tweens
Nielsen says that 46 percent of the 20 million young consumers known as "tweens" are using mobile phones. On average kids get their first cell phone between the ages of 10 and 11 years old. About 55 percent of tweens, who own cell phones, send text messages and 21 percent download ringtones.
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Cell Phone Novels Five out of the ten best selling novels in Japan in 2007 were originally cell phone novels.
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Key Opportunities in Mobile Learning 1. Encourage “anywhere, anyZme” learning 2. Reach underserved children 3. Improve 21st century social interacZons 4. Fit with learning environments 5. Enable a personalized learning experience
Goals For Mobile Learning 1. Learn: Understand mobile learning as a unique element of educaZon reform 2. Develop: Build mobile learning intervenZons 3. Promote: Engage the public and policy‐makers in defining the potenZal of mobile devices for learning 4. Prepare: Train teachers and learners to incorporate mobile technologies 5. SZmulate: Generate new leadership support for digital learning
“ The kids these days are not digital kids. The digital kids were in the ’90s. The kids today are mobile, and there’s a difference. Digital is the old way of thinking, mobile is the new way.” Ellio; Solloway