Teens and Cell Phones
While most schools don’t allow cell phones in class during the school day, the article posed the possibilities of using phones to engage students. Students are already very familiar with the media so the question is the practical application within the school setting. The use of cell phones or “smartphones” can be incorporated in ways such as setting homework reminders, creating short movies, accessing the Internet and transferring electronic files.
I taught during a time when cell phones were common for teachers and the debate at the time concerned professionals carrying cell phone in the classroom. I’m not sure how I feel about students carrying phones in classrooms. My teaching experience was in a third grade classroom. I can see this as more of an issue at the middle school and high school levels. Practically speaking, cell phones could be a distraction. I can envision students engaged in texting when they should be engaged in other activities. It could also provide students with access to the outside community that should be monitored during school hours.
After some thought concerning the issue, I can see cell phones in the classroom but in very limited and monitored situations.
Docksai, R. (2009, January). Teens and Cell Phones. Futurist, 43(1), 10-11. Retrieved April 19, 2009, from Academic Search Complete database.
I am not really sure how I feel about cell phones in the classroom. I know that many activities have been created that allow students and teachers to communicate with cell phones, but I don't feel that they would be helpful. I know there are many uses for cell phones that could have a negative impact in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jen on this. I am not sure about how I feel about cell phones being used in the classroom either. I think that there are many different venues that can be used instead of cell phones in the classroom to accomplish the same thing. There are blogs, wikis, im, and email just to name a few as ways to interact and communicate with other people. I think that cell phones offer to much room for students to be tempted to communicate socially with their friends and family in a non-academic way.
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