Every year I help out at The Town Moor Fair School – a temporary school for the show children of the Hopping’s funfair. I work with the older kids, generally those in Years 7-9, and enthuse them about the joys of English Literature, amongst other things. Every year I’m amazed by the latest technology that they seem to be in possession of, and this year it is without doubt the iPhone. The iPhone keeps cropping up in art sessions and is used for internet research, replacing the laptop which was a common feature at the school last year.
Technology, like the iPhone and the laptop, undoubtedly plays an important role in these children’s lives; because they’re travelling around most of the time they need to find ways to stay in contact with base schools and their fellow show friends. But what about children in more mainstream education?
We’re currently doing some research into the use of technology in the Primary setting, and the issue keeps arising as to the place of popular technology – such as the iPhone and the iPod – in an educational setting. Now we know that lots of work has been done around technology and its ability to engage male learners - and that's fantastic - but what about in more general terms? Could the mobile phone be successfully incorporated into lessons? So this is the question we are left pondering; can popular technology be incorporated into the classroom effectively?
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