We look at some examples of mobile phone use within the curriculum. We consider issues raised by pupils’ access to personal technology. You experiment with Google’s App Inventor toolkit, creating a simple game for an Android handset.

2. Handheld Devices

3. Smart Phones

4. Ofcom, 2010

6. BYOT
“The market is a far better judge of the appropriate personal
digital technology than any group of „ICT experts‟”
 Technology is chosen by the student and/or family
 Personalisation of teaching and learning in and out of
school
 In-school technology use is an extension of students'
existing technology use
 Respect for student ownership of technology and
information stored on it
Lee, 2012

7. Steve Jobs, 1980
"Right now, if you buy a computer system and you want to solve
one of your problems, we immediately throw a big problem right in
the middle of you and your problem which is learning how to use
the computer. A substantial problem to overcome. Once you
overcome that, it's a phenomenal tool. But there is a barrier of
having to overcome that problem.
What we're trying to do … is to remove that barrier so that
someone can buy a computer system who knows nothing about it
and directly attack their problem without learning how to program their
computer.
Our whole company, our whole philosophical base, is founded on
one principle. That principle is that there is something very
special and very historically different that takes place when you
have one computer and one person. Very different than if you have
ten people and one computer."

8. There‟s an app for that

9. Codea

10. App Inventor

13. Apps for Good