Using Cell Phones in the Classroom
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Students from The Global Learning Collaborative in New York City began their learning expedition at El Museo del Barrio where they viewed the museum’s permanent collection, Voices and Visions, an exhibit representing the unique perspective of American artists with cultural ties to Latin America. Using Nokia Smart Phones provided by The Mobile Learning Institute, students texted comments about the collection and recorded an interview with museum educators. Later, students utilized their phones to photoblog significant artifacts from their lives, extending the theme of El Museo del Barrio by including the voices and visions of Latino youth.
The Meaning of Things: Voices and Visions from the GLC
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One of my favorite new resources for creating QRcodes is Polltogo .Innovative Ideas for Using Cell Phones to Summarize and Take Not
Editor's note: This is part two in series of posts focused on the nine instructional strategies that are most likely to improve student achievement across all content areas from the book Classroom Instruction That Works by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock. Summarizing and note taking promote greater comprehension by asking students to analyze a subject and determine what is most important and share that information in a new way that makes sense given the task at hand. According to research, this requires substituting, deleting, and keeping some information while having an awareness of the basic structure of the information presented. To do this students must be able to analyze information at a deep level. Here are some ideas for ways that strategies to summarize and take notes can be enriched with cell phones.
By Lisa Nielsen and Willyn Webb, authors - Teaching Generation Text . We live in a world that is increasingly mobile. In order for adults to connect with our kids and students, we need to mobilize. Kids love their phones, they are highly motivated to use them (constantly), and they always have them right there with them (if they’re allowed).
Cell phones in Education
1. Record your lecture and upload it as a podcast. Share the link with your students to use while studying or for reference.
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iPadio is a voice recording tool that now allows you to record and upload from iPod Touches into your own account, which it did not allow previously. Also my students use the iPods as their classroom computer platform. They blog directly into their Edublogs.org accounts from the iPods. They have to click on the "HTML" tab to write into the body of the blog.
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Ideas To Inspire Technology Greatness!
Teachers ask me all the time for technology ideas on a wide variety of subject areas. Some days I can get 30 questions from 30 different teachers but they all might be asking the same sort of question. One day it might be questions on how to use Google Earth and the next it might be all Smartboard questions. It sure would be helpful to have list of easy ways that these tools can be used in the classroom.