Sabado, Pebrero 4, 2017
“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly further and faster than ever before” by Jenny Arledge
Today we are living in the era of technology wherein many devices and machines are invented. This progress made our daily life faster and easier than before. It makes our work efficient and it make our communication to others faster by the use of Computers, Tablets and smartphones. Even in the educational world this newly invented devices are very useful .
We have seen that the children of today are engage with the technology. They are now very comfortable to the electric gadgets and equipment. Some of us may have experienced that a 6 years old child teaches us how to manipulate a smartphones or a tablet and they even teaches us how to score big in an android games. It is really true that children of today learns quickly through games and mobile applications.
Educational application is a great attribute in the progressing world of teaching and education. This applications add to the educational experiences of the learner. But the understanding of the process depends on the cognitive styles of the learner.
One of the benefit of an educational application is the mental development of the learner. There are application that can challenge the learner to think critically and that can motivate them to continually develop themselves in the process.
There are hundreds of thousands mobile application that can help the teachers and the students. The teachers are really good in organizing and conducting activities but because of the modernized world of today teachers also use educational apps in order to catch up with their students. Apps can help the teachers to achieve better performance in organizing and conducting the activities.
US, UK and other countries are already influenced by the power of the mobile application. Instead of doing the traditional way which is going to school and bringing lots of book there are already application which you can attend to your classes without going to school and without bringing your books.
Universities, colleges and other schools allows their student to use their smartphones, tablets and laptop during their lecture. This strategy can help their student to focus to the lecture of the teachers.
Mobile learning is one of the hit education trends. There are 7 billions mobile phones that already out all over the world almost as many people in this planet. Even as young as 5 years old already own a smartphones or a tablet. This open many possibilities for the enhancement and advancement of the education and learning.
About three in four (74%) teens aged 12-17 say they access the internet on cell phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Mobile learning is very extremely helpful for you can search facts and other references that the students need to know.
The advantage of mobile learning is that it allows the scope of learning activities go beyond the traditional classroom environment. The learners tend to be more involved in their learning activities when they can access It from their devices.
Mobile learning provides easy access for the learners for they can access it through their smartphones or tablets. It also facilitates collaborative learning for they can communicate to other for every learner had different understanding and perception they give and take knowledge from others. M- learning also address all learning styles, they can read articles, learn through videos and they can research to their smartphones.
Because of the modernized way of teaching, teachers that are not use to the technology are now learning how to manipulate gadgets and devices. At this way they can understand why their students are very engage to their phones.
We are now on the z generation where the technology is very rampant . Students and teacher are engage to the technology in order to understand their environment and to know more about the world.
M-learning also have its disadvantages. There are some of the application that are lack of quality in education. Students may have issues in using it. Hardware of mobile learning depends on the smartphone that you have. If you have phones with small screen the keys are difficult for some to use effectively. The cost of smartphones and data plans can be out of reach of some students and the adoption And ownership is uneven.
The number of smartphone users worldwide will surpass 2 billion in 2016, according to new figures from eMarketer—after nearly getting there in 2015. Next year, there will be over 1.91 billion smartphone users across the globe, a figure that will increase another 12.6% to near 2.16 billion in 2016.
This data is the evidence that people nowadays are embracing the technology. Cell phones are the common platform of m-learning. Based on the data over 1.5 billion Of people having this gadget and many of them are students and teacher that are using their phones for the m-learning
In conclusion mobile application for learning is very helpful and very useful for the students as well as for the teacher. Mobile learning make teaching easy and make the teaching more effective. We all know that learning is effective when we are the one who manipulated and we are the one who seek for the solution of the given task.
References:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/effects-mobile-technology-our-society-leonardo-jines
http://www.eeherald.com/section/design-guide/mobile_platform_trends.html
http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/mobile-phones-the-impact-on-the-economy-society-and-our-personal-lives
http://www.educationalappstore.com/blog/importance-quality-educational-apps/
https://www.goconqr.com/en/examtime/blog/mobile-learning-apps-future-of-education/
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