My Experience of Mobile Technology and Learning

My main job consists of me supporting individual students; I use a fair amount of application on Mobile technology. A lot of the students I work with have barriers to education, for example, organisation skills, spelling, grammar, physical conditions, etc., and so these application help aid me in my role.

Say I have a student who has bad organisational skills, if they have a Smart Phone/PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) we would routinely key in the activities for the week and this unchanging activity eventually becomes autonomous.

Another example would be the dictionary app; as these help not only with spelling, but pronunciation and the context to which each word fits. These can be great aids for when the student has no one around to help.    

For me as a facilitator I use mobile technology for everything digital, camera, diary, emails, timer, to show and send video, research and so much more. I think if I lost my phone tomorrow I would be rendered useless, for my life exists there and things would move slow if at all without it.