Using wireless and mobile technologies to enhance teaching and learning strategies

Abstract

The tremendous development and sensational popularity of smart mobile devices that offer uninterrupted communication services could be utilized for inculcating creative skills in young children. Many tools and applications that target children education and entertainment are easily available these days. Both parents and educators find a huge responsibility in evaluating and selecting such devices and decide which of these offer potential educational benefits for their children, decision seems critical for them since they use restricted tools to evaluate the applications available in the market. Hence the development of an interactive and multisensory component based mobile application environment with integrated physical and virtual reality scenario could solve the issue related to the children education and entertainment. This is not just limited to education and the entertainment domain but will explore essential features of virtual reality environment and interactivity. Children with special education needs face difficulties in understanding new information and concept but by the use of virtual reality worlds, their level of understanding could be improved. This paper discusses the development of adaptable, customizable and virtual reality based compliant applications for children. These applications may be useful to enhance learning essentials and improve diverse sensory and cognitive impairments in children with special needs. This paper discusses development of application that could be made available on i-pads, tablets, etc and will be intelligent to perform switch between the different intellectual ranges of children accessing it. In other words it will present self-adaptability feature. This research study also focuses on the activities that are suitable for learning purposes with students with impairments.