Anta att du är lärare i en liten by i Botswana. Ni har inte tillgång till datorer och Intenet men du och alla elever har tillgång till mobiler.
Hur kan du använda mobilen som pedagogiskt verktyg?
Sounds like a very simple question; easy to answer. Yet, once you start thinking, you realize it is not. It generates more questions:
What age group are we talking about? I suppose, being a small village, it’s an elementary school.
What is the curriculum?
What subject are we talking about?
What kind of mobiles do they have? (I have one that doesn’t even take pictures.)
The first thing I would think the mobile phone could be used for is to ensure attendance. Pupils or their parents could SMS the teacher if they were absent.
Teacher or friends could SMS the assignments, especially if the child is absent for several days.
If they have a phone that takes pictures, I could use it in Biology or other Natural Science subjects.
Another question: would we use a language with correct grammar and spelling or the SMS short forms. The latter would promote the acceptance of this new “dialect” or language. I don’t really know what linguists think about this.
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