The document discusses the future of mobile learning and use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) in literacy classrooms. It defines m-learning as learning that focuses on mobility and portability through use of mobile technologies. Examples of PDAs given are smartphones like BlackBerry, iPhone, and iPad, which can provide wireless Internet access anywhere and support anytime learning. The document suggests possibilities for the future include instant grade updates to parents' phones, schools going paperless, and districts using students' digital skills to help them excel through familiar mobile technologies.

1. The Future of Mobile Learning & the Use of PDAs in Literacy Classrooms Corey Brown ED 5670

2. Is this Mobile Learning?

3. Or is this Mobil Learning?

4. Mobil Learning is… M-Learning M-learning focuses on the mobility of the learner, interacting with portable technologies, and learning that reflects a focus on how society and its institutions can accommodate and support an increasingly mobile population. M-Learning decreases limitation of learning location with the mobility of general portable devices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLearning

5. Examples of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) BlackBerry, iPhone, and iPad are well known examples of PDA’s. All with useful tools for the future of the classroom.

6. -Smart Phones- A PDA taken to the next level. Smart phones provide equitable access to the Internet for all students by supporting the popular wireless broadband technologies. With Wi-Fi, EDGE and 3G support, these ultra-mobile devices provide access to users from anywhere -- school, home, library, community. Creating opportunities for anytime learning. http://www.convergemag.com/edtech/Mobile-Learning-in-Classrooms-of-the-Future.html

7. Here is a glimpse into the possibilities. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9xGP-FVzbY

8. What is the next step? Instant grade updates to parent/guardian cell phones? Schools go paperless? Districts harness the Digital Natives within them and offer a chance to excel within a medium students are comfortable using. Endless possibilities…