When we think of cell phones we can only imagine what would happen if students were allowed to use them during class. Most teachers only see the bad side of what a phone is and can do during class because students use it for texting and communicating with their friends instead of doing their work in class. Cell phones have come a major distraction in classroom, but we can find a use to them into the learning experience of students. Cell phones can be used as a response system, recorder, audio, and images for the classrooms. A response system can have the students text the answer to the teacher through the program called Poll Everywhere. Students can use their phones to record experiments or class lecture. Having audio books on student phones can be useful at times because we can have the phone read to the students. Being able to take picture of what a vocabulary word means or simply for project and presentation purpose the phone can be used. Using cell phones in class can have a positive impact on students learning and can expand their mind settings. There needs to be proper ways to be able to use a cell phone in class and not just using it to goof around. Even if cell phones are going to be used for educational purposes there still needs to be guidelines on when and why we can use a cell phone in a classroom environment.
I don't see the need of using cell phones in a classroom. I just really disagree with having the use of cell phones as a tool for educational purposes. I saw that the article did a great job in explaining the positives of it, but it did not convince me of using in my future classroom. I can consider it and using the tool, but I don't find the way of implementing it all the time in my classroom.
In NETS for students it tells us that students should be able to communicate and using cell phones can help. Expanding students knowledge can be seen in using their cell phones for group projects and presentations. Just by providing the basic steps of technology students will be able to strive in having better communication skills.
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I have to agree with your comment that students will only use cell phones to goof around in class. I truly believe that most students do not possess the necessary discipline to use their phones in an educational capacity. I must also agree with the article in that cell phones would be a great tool to use in school. the idea that students can communicate with their teacher in and outside of class is a remarkable idea. the idea that a student could have instant response from a teacher or classmate in the answer to a question about homework or a project would be incredibly helpful. but there is still the discipline factor, most student simply do not possess this characteristic.
ReplyDeleteThe use of cellphones in an K-12 educational capacity is a grand idea that just hasn't found it's time yet. I agree with the comment above, as well as your take on the issue. Cellphones have the technology to be extremely useful, however in the hands of immature kids that tend to have poor impulse control, it would probably just become a distraction at best and an extreme nuisance at worst. I know at the collegiate level, they are invaluable. I cannot look back on a day that I've not used my cellphone in some scholastic way . As technology advances, I believe that cellphone use in the K-12 setting will be a more viable option.
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