Just click on the title to this post to go to the voice thread about students' use of their cell phones and laptops in school. Our school will be discussing this issue soon, so your feedback is appreciated!
-Stephen
Monday, July 27, 2009
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Stephen,
ReplyDeleteAlthough I couldn't understand what you were saying on the audio slides, I got the general gist. I had this same debate in a tech class I taught to some of my district teachers. Most of us felt computers= ok, cell phones=MAYBE, depending. As long as you teach appropriate computer usage, fine...although of course teacher need to monitor that usage.
With cell phones... we felt it depends on several things: grade level (in elementary school in my district they aren't even allowed to have phones in school..although that doesn't stop them! [side note: WHY oh why does a 8 year old need a cell phone???]) and your class. Some of the high school teachers said that they liked that VoiceThread allowed cell phone comments; they thought their students might be more apt to use that option than a text or computer audio comment. Other middle/high school teachers said many of their classes-NO WAY! Their students were not mature enough and would abuse the technology by texting in class, or doing inappropriate things.
I have to say, I'm in the camp of no, not at this time because I think there are other technologies that are more useful and worthwhile.
~Erica Stianchi