Cell+Phones+in+Education

=From Banned to Planned: Cell Phones in Schools= Hall Davidson June 2009

(Cell Phones in the classroom: Harness the Power for Learning by David Rose and Kim Guffey is outlined below )

Add this to rule about cell phone use in school: "except in instructional activity led by teacher"

DiscoveryEdSpeakersBureau.com and go to Hall Davidson

QuickTime of Blue Danube Pepsi shows using cell phones at a conference

"Classroom management is less of an issue when engaged learning is taking place"

Challenge based learning is more about research Turn assignments into students calling in assignments, students texting as the role of a character in a book Students often come up with ideas to add to a project

Toys to Tools book on cell phones in education by Liz Kolb and her website has video tutorials that back up the book. www.cellphonesinlearning.com

Websites:

k12cellphoneprojects.wikispaces.com www.cellphonesinlearning.com

New 3Rs Rethink, return, rename

When it is part of a class you would tell students what numbers they should have. A civics class will have numbers of local politicians. Students can develop good speaking voices if calling for school projects.

Phone: Freedom of speech, freedom of the press: we are becoming the press Right to assemble: mob

qik Lets you broadcast live from your cell phone to this site. You can embed this movie by copying the embed code and then paste it into a Google Earth. You could do a tour of places around the town, country, or world and embed these videos.

Visual Barcodes Have your cell phone read a visual barcode You have to have a barcode reader on your phone. [|QR code Generator] ( QR-Quickresponse) go there and generate these codes. Teachers could build an assignment or quiz and then generate a QR code that allows students to access this information. You can link to video, audio, text, etc.

Image recognition: Just bought image recognition technology so that if someone has shoes you like, you take the photo with the phone and send it to Amazon. They sell you those shoes.

Teachers who are using cell phone sin class: Joe Fatheree and Vicki Davis

Joe Fatheree:
 * 1) Action plan for using cell phone
 * 2) Meet with building administrator
 * 3) Evaluate cell phone plans students have: what will text and data costs be? See Cool Cat Teacher Vicki Davis for evaluating costs.

Joseph Tegeler: Wow student did a video with clay and paper.

Send out a writing prompt via text message. Each person creates a video with their cell phone about the writing prompt. Example: Look around you. If this was your last day on earth what would you do right now, where you are?

=Cell Phones in the classroom: Harness the Power for Learning by David Rose and Kim Guffey= They have a Wiki with examples of cell phone use in the classroom.

Students can use Voki to record 1 1/2 minutes of audio here. (This translates into about a page and a half of text.) They would choose an avatar and then record. They can use their cell phones to record these, then share with teacher via email or embed it somewhere.