were free not only to bring their mobile devices to school, but also to use them—at their teachers’ discretion—to connect to the school’s wireless network to do their work.
The students do see [a smartphone] as a potential learning tool
“There’s an appropriate time to use the device and not use the device. If I’m teaching and lecturing, you should not have that device out. If you get it out while I’m teaching or lecturing, you’re going to lose your privacy and have to go back to pencil and paper.”
Gives an example of a school who is going to give students the chance to use their mobile device during school hours. They will later have a catch up story to see whether they thought it was a success or not
The Steroids: Digital, Mobile, Personal, and Virtual
These steroids made it possible for all forms of collaboration – outsourcing, offshoring, open-sourcing, supply-chaining, and in-forming – to come together
Look at our century now and compare it to back then. As seen here in the 1960's it was just an ordinary phone, like our grandparents might have in their attic its not just a button push to dial, here it is a dial you spin to get to the numbers.
Wozniak´s "blue box", Steve Wozniak built his "blue box" a tone generator to make free phone calls.
1972, Wozniak built his "blue box" a tone generator to make free phone calls. Now you need to pay to make calls and prices vary to wheter you are making a local call or international
The Mosaic web browser is released. Mosaic was the first commercial software that allowed graphical access to content on the internet.
Eventually in 1993 the Mosaic web brower was released and it allowed graphical access to content on the internet. Now, we do not need a computer to get access to the Internet, we have our smartphones, ereaders, ipads, etc.
This is an image that shows that mobile connectivity is useful during conferences. People get to search what others are saying to get a more basic, general idea. While others are talking about topics people can go onto their mobile device and see how accurate it is and have stuff to say to back it up
There was a study done to see how many people use their smartphone while watching television. In the US there are 40% who do so on a daily basis, compared to as 12% of tablet users and 13% of smartphone owners say they have never done so. 45% search unrelated info on the web, 42% are checking social networking sites, and fewer than 20% are searching related ads they've seen on TV. While, I just researched some more related to this topic, I came to realize this results are correct and accurate.
4th steroid. More on about DreamWorks and getting started with video conferencing. Gives us an idea on how it got started, who uses it, and what all had to b put into it to get it started
Mobile instant messaging (MIM) is the technology that allows instant messaging services to be accessed from a portable device, ranging from standard mobile phones, to smartphones (e.g. devices using operating systems such as Android, Blackberry OS, iOS, Symbian OS, Windows Phone, et al.).