Responding to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4417370.stm
Especially after the bomb attacks in London, the news media has become aware portable technologies are making individuals who are present at events instant journalists. I wonder how this applies to higher education. We are already seeing signs of it with the concerns about cell phones and other pocket technologies being used to cheat in tests. But I’m waiting for the classroom remote systems to be based on some cell phone number that any cell phone (any network provider) can call. I’m wondering how do we embrace this chaos how do we embrace http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/, how do we work with the cell phones, cameras, blackberries, iPods, etc.? How do we work with these tools when not everyone has one? (One of my colleagues asked a class full of students who didn’t have a cell phone…two raised their hands.) I guess this last question is the same type we ask about balancing different learning styles, different placement levels, etc. I guess this is just a ramble about handheld technologies, the fact they are the next “new” thing in education, and I have NO idea how and pedagogically why I want to use them. I guess I’ll just continue day-dreaming. However, I’m definitely attracked to the immediateness of them.
