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Why Educators Should Embrace Texting, Tweeting and All That Mobile Technology Has to Offer

I think that we are going through a period in history in which everything revolves around technology. Students have access to a great array of gadgets. They use all these gadgets at the same time, they are multitasking. They can study while listening to their ipods, while contacting their peers through a social network using their PCs or mobile phones, so why not use all this in order to boost their learning,

I have many of my students as friends in Facebook, and I am  really surprised to see how much English they use to express their views, feelings, some of them even have their Facebooks in English,  their level of English ranges from Pre-Intermediate to Advance. I tend to write quotations from famous people on my wall in English , and my students make comments on them. I find this as another way of practising their English outside the classroom, I have yet to use mobile phones  as suggested in the post.

I'd like to share the following article I found while surfing the Web:  Uruguay pioneers mobile phone English language teaching, I have to be honest that I read it many months ago, it caught my attention, but I did nothing to find out more about it. Now, after reading Christine Cupaiuolo's post , I immediately remembered it and I thought it would be a good opportunity to share it.