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Cell Phones as Mobile Learning Devices
Brian C. Housand, PhD
East Carolina University
http://brianhousand.googlepages.com

2. 25 Years Ago

3. Motorola's
first
commercial
cell phone
cost $3,995

8. • h;p://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5V‐2qQS3NY0

12. 357
Average number of
text messages a month
204
Average number of
cell phone calls a month

13. 1,742
Average number of
text messages a month
for 13‐17 year olds
428
Average number of
text messages a month
for ‘tweens

14. Nielsen says that 46 percent of the 20
million young consumers known as
quot;tweensquot; are using mobile phones.
On average kids get their first cell
phone between the ages of 10 and 11
years old.
About 55 percent of tweens, who
own cell phones, send text messages
and 21 percent download ringtones.

15. h;p://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/

16. TwitPic

19. PresidenZal
Blackberry

20. http://cfa.media.mit.edu

21. Cell Phone Novels
Five out of the
ten best selling
novels in Japan
in 2007 were
originally cell
phone novels.

22. h;p://filmonthefly.ning.com/
h;p://www.koce.org/filmonthefly/

24. Key Opportunities in Mobile Learning
1. Encourage “anywhere, anyZme” learning
2. Reach underserved children
3. Improve 21st century social interacZons
4. Fit with learning environments
5. Enable a personalized learning experience

25. Goals For Mobile Learning
1. Learn: Understand mobile learning as a unique
element of educaZon reform
2. Develop: Build mobile learning intervenZons
3. Promote: Engage the public and policy‐makers in
defining the potenZal of mobile devices for learning
4. Prepare: Train teachers and learners to incorporate
mobile technologies
5. SZmulate: Generate new leadership support for digital
learning

26. 
“ The kids these days are not
digital kids. The digital kids were
in the ’90s. The kids today are
mobile, and there’s a difference.
Digital is the old way of thinking,
mobile is the new way.”
Ellio; Solloway