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Cell phones, considered a nuisance or worse in many schools, are welcome at Passage. At least eight teachers are using them for a range of lessons, from reports to quizzes in English, social studies, science and math classes.
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02 Dec 09
Young Latinos, Blacks Answer Call Of Mobile Devices : NPR
"About a third of Americans have gone online using a cell phone or other hand-held device. And an increasing number of people are using the devices for activities such as texting, sending e-mails, playing music and instant messaging.
According to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center, most of those hyperusers are young Latinos and blacks.
There are four main reasons for that trend."
13 Aug 09
Please Turn on Your Cell Phone: Change Observer: Design Observer
It might surprise you to learn that students from New York City’s most impoverished neighborhoods arrive at school each day with personal computers. The problem is that they deposit these powerful learning tools at the nearby bodega — where they’re held like a coat check service for a dollar a day — because their personal computers are cell phones, and they are banned by New York City’s school chancellor, Joel Klein. Many students will circumvent the ban by blind-texting from their backpacks or from the bathroom. But it’s not that simple for those who have to pass through metal detectors and scanners to gain entry into the school building each day.
26 May 09
Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers - NYTimes.com
Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company — almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.
The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
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Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company — almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.
The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
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it might be causing a shift in the way adolescents develop.
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09 Apr 09
Cell phones get top marks in class -- dailypress.com
Cell phones, considered a nuisance or worse in many schools, are welcome at Passage. At least eight teachers are using them for a range of lessons, from reports to quizzes in English, social studies, science and math classes.
Principal Kipp Rogers is the man behind the move. Rogers teaches a math class in addition to his administration duties.
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Principal Kipp Rogers is the man behind the move. Rogers teaches a math class in addition to his administration duties.
06 Apr 09
Cellphone backlash: Port Hardy principal's jammer illegal
A Port Hardy school principal became so fed up with students using cellphones in class that he installed a device to jam the calls.
Then some of the students went to work and discovered the move was illegal -- and Steve Gray, principal of Port Hardy Senior Secondary school had to unplug the jamming device.
09 Mar 09
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Making the Case for Cell Phones in Schools
So, thinking through, here are 10 reasons I think cell phones should be allowed in schools.
16 Feb 09
Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool - NYTimes.com
At a conference this week in Washington called Mobile Learning 09, CTIA, a wireless industry trade group, plans to start making its case for the educational value of cellphones. It will present research — paid for by Qualcomm, a maker of chips for cellphones — that shows so-called smartphones can make students smarter.
Some critics already are denouncing the effort as a blatantly self-serving maneuver to break into the big educational market. But proponents of selling cellphones to schools counter that they are simply making the same kind of pitch that the computer industry has been profitably making to educators since the 1980s.
Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer wiki / cellphones
Cell phones are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in many school communities, but their presence in the classroom is commonly viewed as disruptive and unwanted. Modern cell phones offer a variety of capabilities, which are being used effectively by educators in different schools to support curricular learning objectives and boost student achievement. Explore reasons some school districts are embracing the use of cell phones for learning both inside and outside the classroom and examine specific guidelines school districts are utilizing for student cell phones. Explore specific applications of cell phones for learning, including use as electronic response systems, data access, media recording, homework tracking and social networking.
10 Feb 09
Cell Phones - Time to Lift the Ban on Mobiles in the School Setting? — Open Education
However, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young and Nadja Heym of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham recently released a research report that would seem to contradict that current viewpoint. While How mobile phones help learning in secondary schools may not be a ringing endorsement of cell phone use for educational purposes, it certainly offers an interesting take on the potential use of these mobile devices to enhance the educational setting.
The study followed teachers in three schools who began exploring ways to use students’ personal phones as well as additional borrowed smart phones. Though in each case there were existing school policies banning mobile phones in class, students were given permission to use cell phones for a wide array of activities.
06 Jan 09
Top News - Students use iPods for med school study
Ohio State University's medical school has joined the ranks of colleges replacing cumbersome textbooks with the handheld Apple iPod touch this fall.
Ohio State med school officials said the iPod lets students study high-quality images of organs and body
The Extraordinaries: About
The Extraordinaries proposes to deliver skills-based volunteer tasks to people whenever and wherever they are available by mobile phone. Over 80% of the adult U.S. population carries a mobile phone in his or her pocket. The top tier of these diminutive de
29 Dec 08
Cell phones as learning tools « EducationPR
Teacher and technology advocate Liz Kolb says it’s self-defeating for schools to spend time, energy, and money creating policies to fight cell phones. Quite the opposite. In this book she details many ways to integrate these devices as tools for knowledge
16 Dec 08
Teens send 10,000 text messages per year, study finds - Telegraph
The average teenager sends almost 10,000 text messages per year, and is so worried about missing an important call that they leave their mobile phone switched on overnight, according to the latest survey into the digital habits of young people.
10 Dec 08
Using Student Cell Phones in Classroom Projects
How do you work mobile devices into the project?
* Structure certain class sessions where mobile devices are "legal" in your classroom.
* If this is not an option due to policy, make yourself available before and after school for students to tran
17 Nov 08
What is MiLK? | MiLK - The Mobile Learning Kit | MiLK
MiLK is a Mobile Learning Kit that connects students and teachers through simple and effective technology and pushes the boundaries of the teaching and learning beyond the classroom into the other environments students inhabit both now and in the future.
08 Nov 07
New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology - New York Times
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Quote: "All the advances schools and colleges have made to supposedly enhance
learning -- supplying students with laptops, equipping computer labs,
creating wireless networks — have instead enabled distraction. Perhaps
attendance records should include a new category: present but otherwise
engaged."
Note: I actually met a high school principal in Ohio last week who encouraged his teachers to tell kids "Turn your phones ON!" when they come to class. Not as in start making all sorts of phone calls, but as in let's learn how we can use our phones (since just about every student had one at his school) to extend what we're doing in class. We can try to fight this, I suppose, as many schools are. Or, we can try to inculcate appropriate use from early on by modeling our own cell phone use to access infromation and learn throughout the curriculum. Bottom line is yep, this is a much more distract-able world. We have to somehow find strategies to teach our kids to use cell phones and computers and the like in effective ways, and we also have to bend our thinking a bit in terms of what we ask our kids to do in classrooms in the first place.
- willrich on 2007-11-08
03 Aug 07
Foonz Launches Mobile Phone Conferencing via SMS
Foonz, the phone-conferencing service provider, has launched its mobile service for cell phones. You can now set up a group phone conference via SMS directly through your cell phone.
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