How to get an A:

Research your teacher and see if you can assess his biases (google, published bio, any other books or articles he's written). Shape your presentation and papers to skew toward those biases while not blatantly pandering. Make sure you incorporate whatever stylistic comments or input he gives into the next paper.

Then move on to the next class. Expect to be exasperated during this one.

For the 5 minute presentation, adopt a pro- or con- stance on a specific facet of the phone based on several articles: Are they a help by providing research, information or access anywhere? Or a hindrance that distracts from traditional lecture methods and interaction between teacher/pupil? Do they support a shallow research pool via filtered results, or open up worldwide access?

Whatever topic you can concisely state and then support or defend should be appropriate as long as it's about the phones and education. Watch your time, stay on topic.

If it were me. I'd pander. I'd use a paper the website creator wrote about the potential of technology, emphasize smart phone as an enabling technology: http://e3.uci.edu/faculty/losh/pubs/DRHUK.doc



Good luck.