Parents Want Kids to Use Mobile Devices in Schools    | MindShift | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it

"Smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices have gained popularity as educational tools in part because of the belief those devices could cut across the digital dividecreated by socioeconomic boundaries.

 

Now a new study reinforces that perspective, finding that students’ access to mobile devices, in this country anyway, is more often a question of parents’ attitudes toward mobile learning than a family’s income or the mobile device provisions of that family’s local school district."