Mobile Phone Is a Learning Tool
Topic: Mobile phones are a necessary tool for education.
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Mobile phones are the communication device that can connect people with others in any places. Students nowadays rely on mobile phones as their communication devices with friends and parents. Some of them think mobile phones as a learning tool. Are they really essential as a learning tool? This essay will argue that mobile phones are a necessary tool for education but also they are not necessary tool for education. Firstly, it will explain why mobile phones are a necessary tool for education. Then it will explain why they are not.
First of all, Mobile phones are a learning tool. Beside teachers who are teaching students in classroom with math, science and English, the mobile phones have the abilities to do these through graphic displays and short text messages (SMS) outside the classroom. SMS technology can provide cell phones learners with data for analysis. (Prensky, 2005, p.14) Furthermore, Mobile phones can replace textbooks. For example, ‘In Asia, novels intended to be read on phone screens’ (Prensky, 2005, p.14) Students in china, the Philippines and Germany are used their mobile phones to learn English, and to Study Math. Also learning processes such as listening, observing, imitating, questioning, reflecting, trying, estimating, predicting, speculating, and practicing can be supported through mobile phones. (Prensky, 2005, p.12) So the mobile phones can act as a learning tool.
Secondly, Mobile phones are convenient. Students are busier in school with their studies, assignments and school functions like assembly. They involved in these activities after school. It is very convenient for a student who does not have access to public transportation to call their parents for a ride when they need one. For example, students in Kiribati are always leaving by public transport. Drivers are not interested to pick them. The main reason is their bus fares which are always 60 cents
Discuss
Mobile phones are the communication device that can connect people with others in any places. Students nowadays rely on mobile phones as their communication devices with friends and parents. Some of them think mobile phones as a learning tool. Are they really essential as a learning tool? This essay will argue that mobile phones are a necessary tool for education but also they are not necessary tool for education. Firstly, it will explain why mobile phones are a necessary tool for education. Then it will explain why they are not.
First of all, Mobile phones are a learning tool. Beside teachers who are teaching students in classroom with math, science and English, the mobile phones have the abilities to do these through graphic displays and short text messages (SMS) outside the classroom. SMS technology can provide cell phones learners with data for analysis. (Prensky, 2005, p.14) Furthermore, Mobile phones can replace textbooks. For example, ‘In Asia, novels intended to be read on phone screens’ (Prensky, 2005, p.14) Students in china, the Philippines and Germany are used their mobile phones to learn English, and to Study Math. Also learning processes such as listening, observing, imitating, questioning, reflecting, trying, estimating, predicting, speculating, and practicing can be supported through mobile phones. (Prensky, 2005, p.12) So the mobile phones can act as a learning tool.
Secondly, Mobile phones are convenient. Students are busier in school with their studies, assignments and school functions like assembly. They involved in these activities after school. It is very convenient for a student who does not have access to public transportation to call their parents for a ride when they need one. For example, students in Kiribati are always leaving by public transport. Drivers are not interested to pick them. The main reason is their bus fares which are always 60 cents
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