home buyer Six in ten people (more than 4 billion individuals) around the world are carrying a powerful computing device in their pockets and purses. They don’t realize it, but today’s mobile phones have the computing power of a personal computer from the mid-nineties, while consuming a fraction of the energy and are made at significantly lower cost.

In India, the mobile phone has revolutionized communication and India is now one of the fastest growing markets for mobile phone services, with growing usage and increasing penetration. According to TRAI, there are 286 million wireless subscribers in India, June 2008, of which 76 million were capable of accessing data services. The increasing ubiquity of the mobile phone begs for it to be used as a learning tool. It would be a shame if we were unable to leverage it to improve socio-economic conditions in our vast population.

juegos Mobile phones are not just communications devices sparking new modalities of interaction between people; they are also particularly useful computers that fit in your pocket, are always with you, and are nearly always on. Like all communication and computing devices, mobile phones can be used to learn. The content delivered would depend on the capabilities (features) of the device accessing it.

There are many kinds of learning and many processes that people use to learn, but among the most frequent, time-tested, and effective of these are listening, observing, imitating, questioning, reflecting, trying, estimating, predicting, speculating, and practicing. All of these learning processes can be supported through mobile phones. In addition, cell phones complement the short-attention, casual, multitasking style of today’s young learners.

Viewed simply; phones are capable of:

1. Voice - These are the most basic phones, are still prevalent though being rapidly replaced. Such phones with voice only technology can be used to learn languages, literature, public speaking, writing, storytelling, and history amongst a whole range of topics. We’ve known that voice based learning works for millennia now.

2. SMS - Widely used in India, literally billions of short text messages are sent over the phone networks. These messages can be written quickly and offer enormous learning opportunities. SMS can be used to provide just in time information of almost any type, like reminders. (e.g., someone undergoing a formal mentoring process) SMS can be used for informational quizzes. There are also innovative games based around SMS that have strong learning potential.

3. Graphic Displays - Almost every mobile phone has a graphic display, even if it just shows signal and battery strength. Most phones today have far more graphic power and are able to display words, pictures and animation. Such screens also allow for meaningful amounts of text to be displayed, supporting rapid serial presentation of context-appropriate information. You can use this type of displays for almost any sort of learning. Eventually these displays will render content that is today rendered on personal computers.

4. Downloadable programs - With mobile phones that have memories, and can accept and install downloaded programs an entire new learning space is opened up on the phone. Almost any sort of learning content and interaction technology can be delivered to the phone using this method.

5. Mobile Internet Browsers - Internet browsers are now built into an increasing number of phones, especially those that take advantage of 3G or enhanced data networks such as GPRS. Having a browser on the phone opens up all the learning resources available on the web, including Google, LMS applications, typical eLearning courseware and other tools/applications.

Without proper research its hard to arrive at the worth of the m-learning market in India, any projection is unfounded; and is also due to the improbability of being able to predict the rate of technological (read network) adoption and penetration. However, empirically, we are seeing an increasing interest in mLearning.

home building Headphones, external speakers and upgraded CD and DVD drives are used by many people who frequently use their computers for entertainment purposes. These are definitely optional items, but they can be used to enrich your multimedia experience with your laptop or notebook computer.

A secondary monitor should also be considered if your small laptop screen limits your productivity or if you would like to employ the use of a dual monitor setup. This is especially true for ultra-portable and very lightweight models that are equipped with small displays to minimize their overall space and weight. Laptop and notebook PCs are usually equipped with a video port to connect an external monitor. The settings to adjust the display’s properties and your intended use (single or dual monitor setup) are configured in your operating system’s graphic’s display utility or control panel.

An external hard drive or secondary internal hard drive should be considered to avoid a potential disaster if your laptop’s hard drive fails. If they are sufficiently sized, they can also be used to store your music and video files and free up some disk space on your primary drive.

A USB drive or a pen drive are nice external devices that allow you to easily transfer your files from your laptop to your desktop computer. They connect to the computer’s USB port and allow you to easily move files between computers using your system’s file utility software. Operators used to use a floppy disk for this purpose, but today’s USB drives are easier to swap between computers and can handle much larger file sizes. They can also be used to secure sensitive data.

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