Brad Ovenell-Carter's Library tagged edcuation → View Popular

25 Dec 08

23 Dec 08

They started from the premise that mobile phones are now "small, personal computers, providing clock, calendar, games, music player, Bluetooth connection, internet access, and high-quality camera functions in addition to voice calls and short messaging", and decided to find out whether they had a role in class.
We could easily see a more liberal attitude to the use of smartphones in class without any attempt to ensure equality of access or provide resources for those students who do not already own appropriate devices, and that would only serve to perpetuate the inequalities that already disfigure our education system.
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- Social justice and equality of opportunity need to be balanced against our drive toward digital engagement, in the classroom as everywhere else.

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