Jane Mitchinson's List: Masters project

• Larry Rosen of California State University/
• Give students a minute at the beginning of class to check phones.
  
  - Then have them silence their devices, put them face down on desks, and pay attention.
  
  - Every 15 minutes, allow students to check their phones for a minute.
  
  - Gradually increase the interval to 20, then 25, then 30 minutes.
  
  - If students violate the protocol, they forfeit the next phone break.
  
  - Naturally there are times when phones can be used legitimately as part of a learning experience.
• They’ve also learned that it’s unproductive to confiscate students’ phones; this can cause great anxiety and needless conflict. Better to calmly enforce the consequences built into the system.
• Savvy teachers have also found that different desk arrangements are helpful. When students are working independently on iPads, desks might be in a circle facing out, so the teacher can be in the middle monitoring screens. When the lesson is on a whiteboard up front, desks could be in a semicircle facing in, with the teacher standing outside the desks operating the whiteboard remotely

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