Changing Face of the Web
An interesting article on the Face of the Web. More and more people are getting online using mobile phones and are leaving computers behind. Ubiquitous information access in a smaller and smaller format. More powerful phones allow people to check their email, surf the web, SMS, download music, watch videos, and on, and on, and on.
Also an interesting global difference is emerging:
"Today, four in 10 adults browse the Internet on their wireless handset in Japan, double the rate from 2003. However, growth in Internet browsing on a mobile phone is flattening in other leading markets, such as the U.S. and Canada, where wireless Internet access via notebook PC appears to be emerging as the stronger out-of-home Internet platform."
Should we ban these little devices? Open up to them? Re - structure what we consider learning to be in order to accommodate the numbers of these powerful devices sitting in kids' pockets? As adults, we may be all about email, but kids are all about SMS and MSN.
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