Even though this piece of technology hasn’t necessarily seen a surge in popularity. NFC could play an innovative role in a niche environment within technology applications in education. QR codes had a break out into the education scene but hadn’t quite caught on as far as they were implemented in education. NFC can overtake QR codes due to its versatility. NFC is an ever slowly evolving form of technology that could change the interactive scope of tools that educators can use to engage learners and share information. Near Field Communication or NFC, uses a short-range wireless technology to exchange data between devices. The data that can be transferred from card to mobile device is limited by the capacity of storage of an NFC tag. which can vary between 16 bits and upwards of 1 kilobit.
There are some downsides to consider. If a teacher wanted to show off a youtube video of your own that you made for your class. A teacher would have to create their own youtube channel. The same can be said for sharing files. If a location of a file is changed but a link is not updated to an NFC tag, the link that has been written to the NFC tag will no longer be accessible. All things considered, NFC technology has a way to come to be accessible to everyone but holds a lot of potentials to be implemented within a classroom environment.
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