Log. 11 Mobile Phones

Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in Language Classroom.

In some years ago, mobile phones have used for many things such as sending messages, take photos, post thing on facebook, twitter, etc. Nowadays people have more access to buy a phone; also, we can see students with phones. For that reason, that article showed twenty ideas to involve the phones in class, an interesting  and good idea.

The ideas that I liked are these: use the mobile phone to keep a blog, use mobile phone memory to distribute listening and reading materials, use phones for social networking, use the voice memo recorder feature to record conversations outside the classroom, and some others. 

I think that all of these ideas can be useful if the teachers have an objective in the class or a purpose to use the mobile phones. Besides, the students have to understand that the mobile phones are not to waste time in the moment of the class. For that reason, teachers that want to apply this method is great, but all students have to be engage with what they have to do. Also, I consider that students can do better the things even if the task are writing, reading, or listening.

On the other hand, the use of the mobile phones in many countries to a method is difficult because not all the countries have access to internet, the phones are expensive. I think that not all the ideas are useful in a way, but we have access and we have the opportunity to apply them.  I will give 5 stars because the ideas are excellent and useful.


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