Consider uses of mobile technology in your school or workplace.

Mobile technology has been widely used in school environment and workplace.

For the university which Janey studied in her first degree, Chinese made social media like Renren was being used by faculties as a main communication media between faculty and students. In between classmates, communication tools like Weixin, QQ and Whatsapp are very common tools for peer or even teachers’ communications. Group chat is now very common. In HKU, mobile APPs were created to facilitate teaching and learning. CEDARS has an APP to deliver important information to students via mobile devices so that students won’t miss any of them (e.g. career opportunity).
Mobile technology has also been widely used in workplace. For Abby’s internship as an account executive in an advertising company, QQ for mobile was being used for workgroup discussion, it became very useful as most of the team are working on fields. Another example is an APP for property agent. Abby also involved in an APP development project which is about property agency. The APP provides brief introduction of the property for sold or lease, the latest progress,the price and privilege of the property, etc. Her colleagues were all asked to experience the app and gave some feedback and advice.The mobile technology is used in  the commercial as an promoting tool.
Peter shares his experience in the school he worked before.Between the students and himself, he used to mobile version of Skype to keep in touch with them. He made a new account, just for teaching use (He didn’t want the students to have his personal account name!), and had his students add him as contacts. This way, the students could instantly voice chat with him, or send him text messages if they needed help with their homework. Additionally, they could take pictures of problems they were having. For example, if they couldn’t solve a math problem,Peter would ask them to take a picture of what work they had done so far and send it to him. Instead of just giving them the answer, Peter could show them where in their work they had made a mistake and help them find the correct answer for themselves. This way, Peter helped assure that more students brought their homework in on time than had before he started using Skype.

One of the characteristics of using mobile technology is its mobility. With the wide coverage of mobile and wi-fi network, people can access to information anywhere anytime. Communications for mobile is no longer limited in speaking, but rich media like text, video, and audio. Mobile learning can breakthrough the geographical constraints of learning. On the other hand, the ease of use of mobile provides unique advantages to mobile learning over other media. Traditional computers interface is often more complicate to use compare to mobile device. User interface of mobile device is usually more simple. On the other hand, mobile devices are more instant available, i.e. you don’t have to wait before you can use it. Also the power consumption of mobile devices is much less than traditional PC or notebook., which make it available all the time. As a result, mobile technology would still have a great potential to growth a lot further.