Mobile and PDA Technologies: Looking around the corner
| Type of publication: | Misc |
| Citation: | 558 |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Note: | Anderson 2006 - Mobile and PDA Technologies file:///jisc_mobile&pda_2006.pdf js, 14.05.2007 |
| Abstract: | We've come a long way since Apple's John Sculley first coined the term 'personal digital assistant' and launched a new computer product category with the Newton in 1992. In the succeeding decade or so there has been a phenomenal growth in mobile or handheld computing and communication devices: personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, smartphones and personal media players. Mobile phones, in particular, have become extremely widespread and as they become more sophisticated they have begun to offer the information processing facilities of other, more traditional, handheld devices. The availability of such handheld, portable ICT devices has led many in education to explore the implications for teaching, learning and research and, as a contribution to this process, in November 2004, JISC Technology and Standards Watch published a report entitled 'Mobile and PDA Technologies and their future use in education' (Anderson and Blackwood, 2004). The report laid out the current state of the art in handheld devices and provided some trends and predictions of future developments. This short report is provided as an update to that previous report with a view to reviewing progress and discussing, in brief, the future trends in the light of recent developments. |
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