Guest Commentary: Give Students Mobile Devices to Maximize Their Learning Time

Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Additionally, every fall, he co-hosts a major conference for Qualcomm on mobile learning.
Recently, Dede wrote a blog post for Education Nation's "The Learning Curve." In the post, he advocated for allowing students to use mobile devices in the classroom.
"We know that students’ lives outside school are filled with technology, giving them 24/7 mobile access to information and allowing them to participate in online social networks and communities where people worldwide share ideas, collaborate, and learn new things. Our education system should leverage students’ interest in technology and the time they spend learning informally outside the regular school hours to extend learning time in a way that motivates them even more," he wrote.
Click here to read Dede's entire post.