The document discusses using mobile phones in classrooms to enhance learning. It notes that there are over 2.5 billion mobile users worldwide and mobiles are increasingly being used for activities like emailing, browsing the web, and interacting with online content from anywhere. The document suggests bringing experiences from outside the classroom into the classroom by having students document field trips on their mobile phones. It also discusses challenges around whether "digital immigrants" or older teachers can teach "digital natives" or younger students with greater digital skills, and ensuring students and teachers have the necessary information literacy and technical skills.

1. Toni Twiss www.tonitwiss.com/mobile eFellow 2008 Christchurch, New Zealand October 2008

2. Mobile Phones in Classrooms

3. Learning that happens across locations, or that takes advantage of learning opportunities offered by portable technologies en.wikipedia.orgwiki/M-learning

4. Worldwide there are 2.5 billion mobile users

5. During May in Britain this year... 6.5 Billion 46.5 Million 16 Million

6. Vodafone 715 Basic 3G phone $145 on prepay Free on a 24 month contract

7. Use students' mobile phones to bring experiences from outside the classroom inside

8. Bring the learning from field trips back in to the classroom

9. Documenting a Process

20. 2008 Horizon Report 2-3 Years: Mobile Broadband

21. The Mobile Web

22. 2008 Horizon Report Today, mobiles are increasingly about networking on the go. Better displays and new interfaces make it easier to interact with an ever-expanding variety of content—not just content formatted specially for mobiles, but nearly any content available on the Internet. Mobiles now keep us in touch in almost all the ways that laptops used to: with email, web browsing, photos and videos, documents, searching and shopping—all available anywhere without the need to find a hotspot or a power outlet.

26. Can the digital immigrants teach the digital natives?

27. Information Literacy What skills do our students need? What skills do our teachers need?

30. QR Codes and Readers

31. Why go on the internet on your mobile?

34. www.tonitwiss.com/mobile

35. Images Slide 8: http://gorgeousgeography.wordpress.com/ Slide 19: teavuihuang.com/tvh-72g Slide 24: source unknown – but the picture was too good not to use :)‏ Slide 23: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/ Slide 25: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/ Slide 26: http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/464642050/sizes/o/in/set-72057594087419481/ Slide 28: http://flickr.com/photos/vermininc/ Slide 29: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/