| Introduction "The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." -Albert Einstein |
| The Texting Teacher "If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn." - Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada |
| The Texting Learner "Over the past forty years, technology has changed so rapidly that by now kids are blase about its wonders. The unimaginable for us has become their norm." - Dr. Michael Osit |
| Research Based Instructional Strategies Supported by Cells "We educators stand at a special point in time" - Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock |
| Cell Phone Enriched Lessons to Engage Learners "...if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." - John Dewey |
| The Five Building Blocks for Success with Cell Phones in Education. "You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great." - Les Brown |
| The Texting School Community: Administrators, Guidance Counselors, Parents, Librarians, & Beyond “Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.” -Marian Anderson |
| Breaking the Ban with a Six Part Plan “Let’s admit the real reason that we ban cell phones is that, given the opportunity to use them, students would vote with their attention, just as adults would ‘vote with their feet’ by leaving the room when a presentation is not compelling.” -Marc Prensky |
| How to use Teaching Generation Text The more I learn, the more I realize what little I know. -K.C. Freeman |
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I teach in Sweden, where lots of schools are getting more enlightened about cellphones (we've got so many of them … and we've had 3G for many years now - just introducing 4G). A friend of mine who teaches Physics in grade school gave his '9th-grade' (US-style) pupils a tricky formula to work out. Two of them dialled 118 118 (the Swedish number for 'ask us anything' information searching) on their cellphone … and got the answer within about 5 minutes.
ReplyDeleteHe praised them … and then turned the rest of the lesson into one about the importance of understanding - and the relative unimportance of 'the right answer'.