Firefox has been mobile for a while now with Mobile FireFox. A cool little mash that lets you take your browser to any machine that you want, but the one place that has been lacking, until now, it the phone. Well, it seems that is changing. If with all this movement (even this biz article seems to get it), education moves onto the mobile device with the same pace that desktop technologies have been adopted and used to the same penetration levels as they are outside education, things are going to look mighty grim.
Granted, part of the reason why technology is slow to penetrate eduction is cost, the other part has got to be the conservative nature of not only the teachers, but the admin and the others involved in educational governance. Many places seem to have taken the “osmosis” model when it comes to technology – establishing that there is enough technology outside the membrane of the classroom, that the forces of the universe will allow leaching of those workflows to pull out of the class what needs to be done.
I’ll have to come up with another Devil’s Advocate post for that osmosis model, but I’ll have to do that later.
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