C Mac on 2009-03-05
I would like to see this report... where is it?
This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 05 Mar 2009, by C Mac.
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08 Oct 09
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Suzette Kliewer, the teacher who administered
the Digital Millennial program at Southwest High School in Jacksonville, N.C.,
said the phones excited her students and made them collaborate and focus on
their studies, even outside of school hours. “They took average-level kids and
made them into honors-level kids,” she said.
But Ms. Kliewer also said that she spent much
of her own time at night, and during weekends and holidays, monitoring the
students’ phone use and occasionally disconnecting phones remotely when students
broke the rules.
“You have to be willing to put in the time and
be very patient with the technology,” she said.
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paid for by Qualcomm, a
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This is a device kids have, it’s a device they are familiar with and want to take advantage of,” said Shawn Gross, director of Digital Millennial Consulting
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On Tuesday, Digital Millennial will release findings from its study of four North Carolina schools in low-income neighborhoods, where ninth- and 10th-grade math students were given high-end cellphones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software and special programs meant to help them with their algebra studies.
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“Texting, ringing, vibrating,” said Janet Bass, a spokeswoman for the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second largest teachers’ union. “Cellphones so far haven’t been an educational tool. They’ve been a distraction.” Ms. Bass says it is “almost laughable that the cellphone industry is pushing a study showing that cellphones will make kids smarter,” particularly during a recession that is crushing the budgets of many school districts.
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Suzette Kliewer, the teacher who administered the Digital Millennial program at Southwest High School in Jacksonville, N.C., said the phones excited her students and made them collaborate and focus on their studies, even outside of school hours. “They took average-level kids and made them into honors-level kids,” she said.
But Ms. Kliewer also said that she spent much of her own time at night, and during weekends and holidays, monitoring the students’ phone use and occasionally disconnecting phones remotely when students broke the rules.
“You have to be willing to put in the time and be very patient with the technology,” she said.
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C Mac on 2009-03-05
She nails it... a lot of work but rewarding...
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