Tap into the potential of the 'cloud'
During my recent 10-day home trip to China, half of which was spent on the road, I borrowed my 84-year-old mom's cell phone, with an amazing battery time, to keep in touch with people. It was a dumb phone and even made me ironically conspicuous at an intelligent learning environment conference, where I had a presentation on, what else but, fluid learning in today's "bring your own device" environment.
When I returned to my hometown, the dumb phone also made me a laughing stock of former classmates, who, like almost everyone else, boast of some kind of shiny, whiz-bang touch-screen smartphones.
On trains and buses I saw that most people were busy chatting with friends, watching movies or playing games on their smartphones. The devices were used a great deal to consume information and to chit-chat online, because people still use computers to do "serious" work, and still store contents in computers which take up space and slow down speed.
