Mobile Devices in Education

      Mobile devices are great for teaching 21st century skills.  If you want students to learn to collaborate, it is the very  tool that you can be beneficial.   Modern cell phones are more than just devices for making and receiving phone calls. They are designed for communication, organization, and amusement. These newer phones involve tools for taking and modifying pictures and videos, sending texts and emails, streaming video, connecting to others through social networks, and so on. The reality that so many students have access to cell phones makes many teachers think of their use in the classroom.                                                                                                 
    Mobile phones can be used both inside the classroom and outside the classroom (Reinder, 2010). Students can make use of them in many different ways.  For example they can find definitions and  translation, can use as an internet browser to access endless information. Besides they can read new articles, current events and books. Furthermore students can download and use education programs such as Google Maps.              
   Prensky explains to educators that in a Flat World, while U.S. teachers are forbidding to use cell phones at schools, millions of students in China and Japan, the Philippines, and Germany are using their mobile phones to learn English and  to study health and spelling. Prensky claims that the average cell phone nowadays has more computing power than many of the computers of 10 years ago ( Prensky, 2002). 
  So it is obvious that mobile phones can be very helpful in education if teachers are aware how they can coincide and combine it with their lesson and students' needs. Cell phones give students a chance to employ them differently and to make education compelling and motivating for them. 

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