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Bruce Gorrill

Local schools try to cope with a cell phone invasion - 0 views

  • Anderson said cell phones are getting a second look at the senior high. As the phones have become more pervasive and more powerful, teachers and administrators have begun to look at ways they can be used as tools to enhance education rather than disrupt it. Students with Internet-capable phones have access to the district's Infinite Campus student management system, to check assignments, contact teachers and manage their school life online, he said. Mobile communications are an ever-growing part of what students have to cope with and manage, he said. "It's appropriate to bring that into our curriculum." While more and more students carry more and more powerful mobile phones, those who remain unconnected have one fewer option than they did several years ago. There's no point in a student keeping a few coins in his pocket in case he needs to use a pay phone - coin-operated phones have left the buildings. "I don't think they'd know how to use one," Anderson said.
Chris Hafner

smart phone - 5 views

That's actually what keep's us ahead of most of the rest. ;-) As for a forum... aren't there TED forums? I'll go look.

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Bruce Gorrill

Smartphones provide positives, negatives on campus - The Ranger - News - 1 views

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    Dwight Huber, a professor in the English department, has a practical approach to the issue of cell phones and classroom disruptions. "Students are generally engaged enough in my classes not to have the time to talk on a cell or text anyone," he said. "With active learning, an instructor doesn't need policies as such.
Bruce Gorrill

2010 October - feature: do schools need ICT? - 2 views

  • Our schools are now a desert swept with the winds of yesterday's technology; meanwhile our students can be found drinking from an oasis of smartphones, smart apps and smart interfaces. They have answers to questions we haven't even dared to ask. They outsmart us at every turn.Teenagers upgrade their mobile phone every 12 months. Even the socially disadvantaged are one step ahead of their school's ICT. That's not a problem. That's a huge opportunity schools should grasp. It's an
  • pportunity to save money and upgrade our thinking about ICT.
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    Long on the problem - short on the solutions. the Luddites need to know how these tools can be used in classrooms. good wake up call though.
Chris Hafner

Starbucks to use QR codes for payment from smartphones! - 3 views

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    Starbucks to use QR codes for payment from smartphones!
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    so does this mean that in the future our payments for everything could be done with a mobile device? No more carrying tons of cards in a wallet???
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    At some point I hope. A different proprietary swipe system is used in Japan by a majority of the population for day to day transactions. The reason why I like this is simple: The technology is not specialized, proprietary or restricted in any way. The Japanese system requires secured chips imbedded in cell phones (or their cases) belonging to a system that everyone uses through their banks. This system simply uses your credit card transmitted through a bar code.
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