Teachersmap: Mobile Apps in Education [PDF]

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TeachersMap Mobile apps in education Mobile phones. They are in all of our pockets now, aren’t they? But how many mobile apps are there in your phone? You probably use them to order food, make payments or simply chat with your friends on Messenger. Mobile applications are to make our life easier. Nowadays many businesses in the education sector build their own apps and there are many ways on how we could benefit from them. Like all the other sectors, technology has also sneaked in the system of education worldwide and has given it a range of non-conventional learning possibilities. Mobile applications have found a revolutionary way to make learning simpler, faster, and available at any time and any place we want to. But is this revolution only about the applications created strictly for learning? Like all those apps students use to revise before Math or Geography tests? Or the apps they use to learn about different cultures and most commonly to learn foreign languages? The digital technology has gone further and there is more what mobile apps people download every day can do for them. As Theodore Levitt once said: “Creativity is thinking up new things, innovation is doing new things” And in this case the idea of “doing new things” would be the creation of a new mobile application for the education market. Just imagine there is an app which finds a private teacher for you, or if you are a teacher, it finds you new students. In your location, immediately and with almost no effort. A company from Poland has created such an app and they called it TeachersMap. It constitutes an interactive system for mobile devices which is based on a map and links foreign language teachers with their future students. As you can see, the creators are not trying to blind you with science. The location. It is that simple. Each time there is a student – tutor match, the app sends a notification directly to their phones. TeachersMap is more convenient and more effective than the usual traditional ways of finding students and private teachers. The app frees them from browsing websites looking for new deals in their location or for online lessons. It is beneficial both for foreign language teachers and for students as it saves them a lot of valuable time which they used to spend on different websites and networking platforms in search of new contacts. With time, things have changed, and there are different ways to introduce innovations in the education sector all around the world. Mobile apps give us access to infinite information, data and moreover, they enable fast connections between people. TeachersMap is one of them. We might need more such applications down the road.



Read the sentences and decide whether they are true or false or not given: 1. Mobile applications are no longer so popular in Poland. true 2. Learning via mobile apps is considered rather conventional. true 3. TeachersMap is mainly for teachers to use. false 4. In TeachersMap you can share your materials. true 5. There is no name of the company which has created TeachersMap. true 6. The number of mobile apps users is on the rise. true 7. The article says that innovations in education are introduced around the world. 8. TeachersMap is going to create another mobile application. true 9. In general, mobile apps are considered handy. true 10. According to the text, we will have more educational apps in the future. true Synonym match 1. Constitute 2. Convenient 3. Conventional 4. Benefit from 5. Sneak in 6. Strictly 7. Free 8. Networking 9. Infinite 10.Commonly



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