Many to one: Using the mobile phone to interact with large classes

The permanent problem of communicating with large classes of over 100 students can be resolved using students' mobile phones and a piece of software written to take advantage of the ubiquity of the mobile phone. Students can send anonymous text messages to the phone number displayed in the application, and each student in the class can see the results of the communication, because the results of the text message output on the screen behind the lecturer when the lecturer selects to release the messages on to the screen. The lecturer must adapt his or her lecture to take advantage of the ability of students to communicate anonymously, and in real time with them. Another area in which lectures have been adapted previously is mini-summaries. The students are allowed to interact with the lecturer through a mobile phone, which every modern student has, and knows how to use so no learning barrier exists with the technology.