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**Lesson Objectives**

 * Understand convergent technology
 * Know how you can use this to learn
 * Explain how YOU would like to learn in the future

Watch. Think.
 * Starter**

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**Activity**
Create a mindmap showing what you use your mobile phone form

Use this online mindmapping tool

Some examples



Task
Write a report about how you would like to use mobile technology to help you learn. Include pictures.

//**“What do you carry on your person now? Probably at least keys, identification, money, and a watch. Quite possibly you also carry credit cards, a checkbook, traveller’s checks, an address book, an appointment book, a notepad, reading material, a camera, a pocket tape recorder, a cellular phone, a pager, concert tickets, a map, a compass, a calculator, an electronic entry card, photographs, and perhaps a loud whistle to summon help.**// //**You’ll be able to keep all these and more in another information appliance we call the Wallet PC. It will be about the same size as a wallet, which means you’ll be able to carry it in your pocket or purse. It will display messages and schedules and also let you read or send electronics mail and faxes, monitor weather and stock reports, and play both simple and sophisticated games. At a meeting you might take notes, check your appointments, browse information if you’re bored, or choose from amongst thousands of easy-to-call-up photos of your kids.**//
 * Plenary**
 * //Rather than holding paper currency, the new wallet will store unforgeable digital money… “//**

This was written by Bill Gates in the early 1990's - when mobile phones were rather simple. Discuss with your neighbor when you think it will happen.