Impressions Scholarcast

An article in Wired Campus by Catherine Rampell would have us encourage our students into ‘constructive’ use of mobile phones in the classroom:

1) Check the spelling/definition of a word
2) Research a topic
3) Look up reference images
4) Pull up maps (even with satellite imagery)
5) Document a science lab with built in digital camera/video
6) Fact check on the fly
7) Mail questions to the teacher that they might be embarrassed to ask
Classroom response system
9) Take quizzes
10) Record and/or listen to podcasts

Would the students have time to listen to the lecturer?

Peta points us to a very telling slide presentation by James Robertson on where intranet use stands in most organisations:

Note that Communication has a way to go whereas the scope for Collaboration (social network tools like blogs, wikis and team sites) to improve is very high. Activity (form filling and data gathering) is just in its infancy. Plenty to do then.