Mobile internet access is growing rapidly and is expected to surpass PC internet access within five years, with over 6,500 distinct mobile device models currently available. Games and mobile platforms can deliver educational content about topics like endangered species, invasive species, and evolution in an engaging way to attract a wide audience.

1. Hip Citizen Science: games, mobile
platforms and new technology

2. Hip: adjective; 1. attractive to a
large number of people this
minute. 2. popular. 3. mainstream

3. http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats

4. The number of people accessing
the mobile Internet is growing fast
and is expected to overtake the PC
as the most popular way to get on
the Web within five years.

6. dotMobi (July 2011) estimates that there are
6,500 distinct Web-capable mobile devices
models out there – that’s ignoring devices that
only vary in color or phones that have be
renamed/relabeled by operators etc. The
majority of these are not smartphones. The
specifications/features of these devices vary
massively, screen sizes particularly.

9. Also hip: cleverly disguised educational content
•Endangered Species
•Invasive Species
•Evolution

11. Also hip: cleverly disguised educational content
•Endangered Species
•Invasive Species
•Evolution

13. Also hip: cleverly disguised educational content
•Endangered Species
•Invasive Species
•Evolution