Cell phones are everywhere. Shouldn’t learning be everywhere, too?
Every year 70% of schools spend a lot of time and effort trying to ban cell phones. But 63% of students bring them to school anyway.
The fact is that students rarely talk anymore; they text.
It’s also a fact that the 21st century workplace is becoming more and more mobile. Companies are issuing fewer and fewer laptops to their employees. Instead, they give them smart phones.
If students love their cell phones and if appropriate skills in mobile technology are a requirement for the next generation of workers, shouldn’t we focus on teaching students to use their phones for learning rather than simply playing?
What if we took a tool that students are already familiar with, one that is with them all the time, and taught them how to use it to expand their learning, both inside and outside of school?
The Solution
Teach With Cell Phones is an online course that will help you re-envision cell phones in the classroom.
You will understand how cell phone use is shifting.
You will learn how widespread student use of cell phones is.
You will come away with excellent and practical ideas for using cell phones with any grade level and in any subject.
You will see how several teachers have used cell phones effectively in their classrooms through podcasting projects, texting assignments and research activities with photographs.
The Teach With Cell Phones online course also includes classroom handouts and sample permission forms, rules and guidelines.
Teach With Cell Phones provides you with the opportunity to
- Train students in appropriate and productive use of their cell phones.
- Engage students with technology they already know and love.
- Encourage student learning both inside and outside of the classroom.
- Give students the tools they need to enter the 21st century prepared.
There are even a number of projects that do not even require students to have their cell phones in class. All cell phone components can be completed outside of the classroom.
About the Author
Meet Liz Kolb.
Liz was once a skeptic about using cell phones in the classroom. In fact, when she served as technology coordinator for her school, she wrote a strong policy against them. Until one day while conducting training for an audio blog, she found that using a cell phone was actually an easier way to record and upload podcasts.
After that, she was hooked. She began researching other projects students could create with cell phones and she’s gone on to write an entire book about the learning opportunities available with them.
Liz has ten years of teaching experience and is a highly regarded expert on the use of cell phones in the classroom. She will share with you the strategies to make cell phones an effective learning tool in your own classroom and she has the research to back it up.
Have more questions? Call today at 800.363.4636
