CTIA, a wireless industry trade group, will present research paid for by Qualcomm, a manufacturer of chips for cellphones, proposing that classrooms allow students to use their smartphones in class because it will make them smarter.
This is the same proposal that the computer industry made when they pitched the selling of laptops to students since the 1980s. Smartphones have 3 major differences in comparison to the computer...it's smaller, cheaper, and widely used by students.
Results of the study, from four North Carolina schools, will be released on Tuesday. They will show that students who were given the smartphones (which were enabled with Microsoft Office software) used them to record their voicenotes and to post videos of themselves solving the problems on privat
e social networking sites, did 25% better on the end-of-grade algebra exam.Students in a high school in Jacksonville, NC using their phones to study algebra.
Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/technology/16phone.html?_r=1&ref=business
"Industry Makes Pitch That Smartphones Belong in the Classroom" by: Matt Ritchel and Brad Stone. Published February 15, 2009
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