Implications and Teaching Opportunities for Camera Use in Teaching and Learning

We were asked to do this post by Dr. Strange about the data from Zogby Analytics to use.

1. 87% say their smartphone never leaves their side.

2. 80% say the very first thing they do in the morning is reach for their smartphone.
3. 78% say they spend 2 or more hours per day using their smartphone.
4. 68% say they would prefer to use their smartphone instead of their laptop or personal computer for personal use.
5. 91% say that having a camera on their smartphone is important (61% very important)
6. 87% say they use their smartphone camera at least weekly. 59% use their smartphone camera at least every other day. 44% use their smartphone camera for still or motion picture taking every day.
Also, Dr. Strange gave us this information as well:

"Cameras were added to smartphones starting in 2002. The first iPhone also had a camera. It became available in June 2007. Seven years later there are over 1.75 billion smartphones worldwide. (Source: emarketing) This means that 24.1% of the entire world population (7.263 billion as of 3:32 CDT 9/27/2014 - Source: World Population Cloc) now has a smartphone. Your students will have lived all their life in a world with smartphones containing cameras."

This data has made me understand that people are attached to their smartphones if they use them. These devices are used for everything like, social media, text, call, play games on, seach the web, and the list goes on. It also shows that most of the smartphones have cameras. When cellphones first came out they didn't have cameras on them in 2002.

Technology is a big part of the world that we live in today. With that being said, technology has to become useful in schools. Some schools use tablets and computers now on regular bases. I have heard that smartphones are used in classrooms in some schools. It would be a little different for younger children, but in middle and high school it could work good in my opinion. Most parents have smartphones in this day in age and they can keep up on what's going on in school through smartphones.

Smartphones can be used in schools to help cover the requirements for Alabama College and Career Ready Standards. They can be used to do alot of things like, reseach things on the internet. They also can help them by learning different languages because there are apps that can say a word in different languages. They will also be able to save more data when they go on field trips because they will always have a camera. This will help them be able to retain more information that they can go back to when they need to.