Kids talk mobiles

Interesting post on Rory Cellan-Jones’s blog. Rory was in a school filming for the BBC’s School Edition project.

Rory clearly ‘gets it’! He talks about how the kids are “knowledgeable, articulate and very demanding of the technology” and that “While adults are dipping their toes into the mobile internet rather gingerly, children are taking the plunge”. And Rory also recognises that there are implications for this technology for the teachers; who, although the school currently bans mobile phones (without success) “they are even beginning to explore how mobile phones could be used in lessons – one class was using phones to film simple animations.”

Good to see the BBC getting it and getting it right!

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