Nowadays, cell phones are not luxury items anymore but an ubiquitous accessory of high school students since the late 1990s. Owing to the various benefits and advantages the mobile phones offer, they became a very important part of society. There was a period in the education history when mobile phones were banned by certain schools as an unnecessary distraction. Some tragic events like: 11 September 2001, as well as other emergency situations, such as: shootings in the school or a student's medical problem, have proved that reaching the parents or the hospital in due time by using the cell phones, is the quickest and most effective solution.
Nowadays parents want to protect their offspring from being called by strangers. How can we provide freedom to our teenagers while protecting them from technologically related harm? Fortunately, the market has responded with some special programmes. Nokia Lumia 900 is an example of smart phone fitted with GPS (Global Positioning System) chip. In this way parents can keep an eye on where their children are at any time.
Cell phones can be used as teaching tools, having academic uses. Nokia Lumia 710 has a built-in calculator meant to perform complex, lengthy calculations, which can be done during the math classes, as well as during social studies to determine the percentage of electoral votes or other imaginary situations. The digital cameras from Nokia Lumia 900 or Nokia Lumia 710, can be used by students to document information for multimedia presentations or reports related to different school subjects. Many phones have wireless internet access which helps them contribute with new information and images from Stonehenge, for example, during classes which become very interesting this way. Students who study literature, foreign languages, can benefit from quickly looking up new word or expression definitions in dictionaries for all languages. Older students can conduct phone interviews during class time with teacher supervision.
During the geography lessons students can search on Google, maps from different countries, continents, information about different forms of relief. Mini fieldwork activities can be performed around the school site using the smart phones such as Nokia Lumia 900 with older pupils. This way they can be asked to: measure the slope angle of the field using a certain application and ranging poles, to take a photo and geo locate it and load it on Google Earth, back in the classroom, make a 360 degree photograph. Students could also use the phone to record sounds and make a sound map. Students could also geo-locate Dictaphone recordings of descriptions of views using "memo" app; record data for microclimate using the "wind speed" application. All these activities will be very useful for pupils and turn dull classes into very interesting ones.
No matter how skeptical teachers can be about the use of smartphones such as Nokia Lumia 900, it is obvious that these devises can be anything you want them to be and they can definitely be used in a variety of field work.
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