Summary of the article

Summary of the article

Mobiles technology has brought a drastic change in our lives as it was not imagined just 15 years ago. This development has put a great impact on education sector as well as others. On the basis of this changing we can imagine easily what would be happen in next five years. Uses of mobiles phones will be more common and children will also use this device. Mobile phone has multiple uses; internet is one of the important service of this technology. This device is already used for different purposes, teaching and learning one of common use of this technology. This device will be used very powerful tool in next coming years. The education authorities are already using this device for sending text alert to parents and also use for notification of lesson. Context awareness is one of the important qualities of mobile phones. This device is used for informal learning experiences which more relevant in a classroom. It also increases for informal learning that is no tied to a particular physical location. It has an easy access to learning material. In a research report it suggested that children should minimize its use but parents ignored. For adults it is not as harmful as it is proved that risk is much less than it was.
On this situation it is difficult to introduce mobile learning to the curriculum as it is already use for different purposes. It is a challenge for educationist to design educational material. The pace of change suggests that mobiles will be used intensively in the college and schools. When we look at world mobile technology it is our wrong assumption how to be use mobile in education.



Bashir Ahmed
MEd 2011
AKU-IED