Submitted by Abdul - Rashid Imoro on Sunday, 26th June, 2011 — News item
Dear all, The mobile phone without doubt has become a most powerful tool that can be used in many forms. It is also worth noting that, the mobile phone is the most commonest tool in Africa and the world at large. In most comunities in Ghana for instance, there is a mobile phone in nine out of ten houses which makes it the most commonest ict tool.
There is there fore the need for people in Ghana to take advantage of this development to magzimise the potential of the mobile phone. The educational institutions in Ghana should find away to allow students in second cycle institutions to use mobile phones to facilitate learning in school. For instance, class assignments can be sent to students via text and students could also be thought on how to use the mobile phone to search for information on the internet.
Abdul Rashid
Savana Signatures
www.savsign.org
rashid@savsign.org
Program Officer, Education
There is there fore the need for people in Ghana to take advantage of this development to magzimise the potential of the mobile phone. The educational institutions in Ghana should find away to allow students in second cycle institutions to use mobile phones to facilitate learning in school. For instance, class assignments can be sent to students via text and students could also be thought on how to use the mobile phone to search for information on the internet.
Abdul Rashid
Savana Signatures
www.savsign.org
rashid@savsign.org
Program Officer, Education
Location
Tamale,
Ghana
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THANKS FOR YOUR POSTING,
Gonzalo Portal
Thursday, 1st December, 2011
Anyone who knows of practical examples/experiences on the use of
The mobile phone as a learning tool please, share.
Interested to know more.
The problem of the ban of mobile phones (in schools in Zambia at least) will pose a hurdle.
Gonzalo
ENEDCOMpelembe and Basic Schools Partnership Kitwe-Zambia
How widespread is GPRS
Alexei Rayu
Monday, 22nd August, 2011
I would be interested to know
Anne Schanz
Wednesday, 24th August, 2011
School authorities want ban use of Mobile Phones
Agbenyo John Stephen
Wednesday, 20th July, 2011
I saw today, this article in the Ghanaian media nd i thought i should share with you. This certainly should rekindle the debate on the use of mobile phones in schools by students:
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Some school authorities in the Sunyani Municipality have advocated a ban on the use of mobile phones by Junior High School (JHS) students in schools.
The school authorities called on parents to check their children against the misuse of mobile phones and asked students to concentrate on their studies and avoid acts that would jeopardize their future.
Mr. Andrew Andoh, Assistant headteacher in charge academics at St.
Patrick JHS, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani on Tuesday that the usage of mobile phones by students on campuses and in classrooms affected teaching and learning.
He said the school had seized phones from students only to see them with new ones the next day.
Mr Andoh said “When you ask them why they bring the phones to school, they will tell you that their parents are out of town or the country and they easily communicate with their parents on the phones”.
Mr. Takyi Donkor Benjamin, a science teacher at Wesley Preparatory and JHS, advised students to be serious with their studies, and reminded them of their obligation to learn hard to enable them to pass their examinations.
He said the seizure of phones by school authorities had resulted in misunderstanding between teachers and some parents.
Some of the students told GNA that their parents always travel and they (children) needed mobile phones to be in contact with their parents whilst others said the phones were sources of entertainment to them.
Miss Nana Adjoa Amponsah Opoku, a student of Wesley Preparatory and JHS, said students used mobile phones to browse the internet for vital information and for calculating mathematical figures and a ban would pose a problem to students.
Source: Ghana News Agency
http://www.ghanabusinessn...The mobile phone as a learning tool
Marco Silva
Friday, 15th July, 2011
However, I also noticed that although youth invest a lot in communications they do not realize how relevant ICT can be to their learning process. Some students even do not use Internet as often as they could to research about issues they are working one. Plus, most of students who study in the public educational system did not afford to charge their mobile quite often.
Based on this idea I have from Mozambique, I think e-mobile is mostly about ensuring that: 1. there are partnerships among the mobile operators and schools so that students have service for free or with reduced price; 2. teacher have ICT integrated in their teaching programme, and; 3. students are aware of the amount reliable information they can promptly access through ICT regardless where it is stored.
More than sharing my point if view I would like to read others opinion, especially based on experiences on the field.
ICT4Dly yours,
macs