Cell phones and education

Yet another post about educational technology... this time, it concerns an article in eSchoolNews about how some schools/teachers are posting homework assignments or other "bite-size" chunks of information that students can access via their cell phones.

Because Koreans are so into technology, especially cell phones, I have thought for some time that there must be a way of utilizing the phones to deliver education-related content. Aside from the suggestions in the above-mentioned article, I imagine that you could develop mini English lessons - about vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, or expressions. Students of all ages (including working adults) could sign up for a monthly subscription to receive these lessons on their phones. If such mini lessons were presented by "veepers" (see my first post), those 3D talking images, I think people would take a real liking to the way the content was being provided.

I wonder if my school would ever be interested in developing these kinds of ideas for our students.