Whatsapp in Education

I have created a Whatsapp group, within my friendship group in university. This application is available on smart phones for free. On here we are able to communicate as a group or with individual people.

This application has been very helpful to ask general questions in the evenings such as lessons during the next day's agenda or to check if there are any homework deadlines.

It has been helpful when we have needed to create a group presentation. Pre-Whatsapp and a texting method of communicating it would have been essential to meet up and create a power point together. This application has allowed us to send pictures and videos for free, and work together without meeting up.

Whatsapp has become very popular and I feel that this useful application for smart phone technology could be used by teacher and pupil. 

One example could be the teacher sends a class message on Whatsapp with their homework for that evening or week. If the children have an problems with the homework, the child could message the teacher privately if they are embarrassed to ask it in front of their class mates or ask the teacher including the whole class so they can all benefit from the help too.