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I read the first 2 UTS Online mLearning Sample readings – Prensky “What can you learn from a cell phone” and FutureLab (see page 11). They discuss using mobile phones in education.

Here are my comments via podcast…

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I found another interesting PowerPoint with a brief coverage of many current technologies.

It has a brief introduction to Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Twitter, del.icio.us, Google Docs, Surveys, Wikis, Slideshare.net.

It is from The Whiteboard Blog.

I followed Chris Betcher’s blog (address is on the UTS Online Digital Learning Staff bubble) and got to Danny Nicholson’s blog.

I have attached a slideshow about Blogging in Schools – he has some very valid points about using blogging with your classes. There are some guidelines about not displaying any personal information, using first names only, etc. and examples for blog use eg. Journals, school trip logs.

The front page of the Sydney Morning Herald today talks about a trial use of ICT (mobile phones) in exams.

You just have to read the online comments on their blog to see how controversial this topic is.

I think it has pros and cons.

You should not have to memorise literature in order to answer exam questions. Is this the new “Open Book” exam?

What is the purpose of the exam? Are you trying to test whether the student has learnt what has been taught?

How do they manage the situation where everyone is in an exam room together and some are using phones – how do the students, who are thinking, concentrate with all the noise (or are Net Gen’s used to noise?)

How about students who cannot afford the technology (the Digital Divide, see earlier posts)? Would the school provide the technology for all?