Handheld technologies

Handheld technologies- Mobile phones are being used for a range of different purposes, from teaching to learning to administration, to widening access to digital resources. And at the same time educational researchers are beginning to generate a body of research evidence to indicate the potential for these technologies to support new approaches to teaching and learning.

People are taking interest in these handheld devices and it easy to see why these technologies can aid learning in a number of ways:

·         First there is personalization of learning and enhancing learner responsibility

·         Second is organizational and logistic

·         Finally there is the links between children’s experiences of learning across different sites and across home, school and community.

Handheld technologies could enable schools to address these issues; they act as tools that are available to the individual learner. They are portable and support access to information in all lessons.

Finally there is the issue of cost. These handheld devices are a lot cheaper to purchase than laptops and this is one of the main encouragements to invest in these handheld devices in the classroom.

These handheld technologies can provide insights into the future, being a lot cheaper makes it quite attractive, but allowing information to be accessible everywhere is such a motivator, it is interactive and enhances learner responsibility which is everything education is driven for. This is certainly education taken to a new level.