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Liz KolbUniversity of MichiganMadonna University

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Concerns with using cell phones in learning?

http://wiffiti.com/clouds/1685

CPSProject: Brainstorming

Why Cell Phones?• Accessibility

• 71% of U.S. population have Internet access at home

• 55% have broadband

• 84% of U.S. population own cell phones

• Low Cost

• End of 2012 education technology spending will reach 56.2 billion dollars.

• How Students’ View Cell Phones

• 3 Generations of Cell Phone Users (NPR)

• How Students View Learning

• Free Agent Learners

• Anywhere, anytime, any place at any pace

• 1-800-2chacha OR Text CHACHA

• The 21st Century Professional World

• Future jobs require mobile skill

• % of U.S. Adults believe that schools are preparing students for 21st Century workforce?

Mobile Job Opportunities for Students

Companies Go Mobile

Mobile Advertising

• Latest News on Mobile Marketing

• SMS & QRcodes & Call Ins

• http://mobilemarketer.com

Mobile Coupons

• SMS & MMS

• http://www.cellfire.com

• http://www.attractionsbook.com/text-coupons

• http://www.xtracoupons.com/

Search for “cell phone skills” on Monster.com

Research says…

1) "The proportions of textisms that kids used in their sentence translations was positively linked to verbal reasoning; the more textspeak kids used, the higher their test scores”

2) "The younger the age at which the kids had received mobile phones, the better their ability to read words and identify patterns of sound in speech.”

http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/news.cfm/newsid/14

Why cell phones should NOT be integrated in learning.

http://wiffiti.com/clouds/1685

 Cheating is a problem…

• 26% of teenagers admitted to using their cell phone to store information to look at during a test or a quiz.

• 25% have text messaged their friends about answers during a test or quiz.

• 20% have searched the Internet via their mobile phone during a test or quiz.

• 17% have taken pictures of a test or quiz with the cell phone in order to send the pictures to their friends.

Common Sense Media 09

Even MORE of a problem

Most students do not envision these activities as cheating.

More than half of the students surveyed did not think these acts were serious offenses of cheating, rather they think of it as just “helping out a friend.”

Common Sense Media 09

70% of U.S. schools completely ban cell phones from campus

63% of students admitted to sneaking in cell phones and using them during class anyway.

In a seven class a day, five day school week, the average student sends at least three text messages per class.

Common Sense Media 09

Life Consequences

• Students are sometimes “sexting” “to friends for their entertainment value, as a joke or for fun."

• Six teens face child porn (13 to 15) charges after being caught "sexting" each other. Criminal Charge!

• IN PA, 3 girls (12, 12, 16) charged with child pornography for sexing. Picture of them in bras.

• 15% of teenagers have risque photos of themselves or their friends on their cell phones.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/01/15/pn.sexting.teens.cnn

Current Banning and Structures are NOT working

• Students still “cheating”, “Off-task”, or “inappropriately” using cell phones in schools

• Students still bring them to schools and use them when told not to.

• Students still do not understand consequences of their use

• Students have no idea how to use them in future job force!

How do we change?

2007 Craik Middle School in Canada: Began Using Cell Phones

8th Grade40% have cell phones

Using them for…•Organization/Scheduling

Projects: •Text Messaging Activities

•Recording Group Conversations

•Sending assignments to the teacher

2007: Middle School Principal’s Journey

“Last year the school ran out of calculators needed for a math exam, So I let a student use the calculator function on his cell phone. The student was excitedto use a phone instead of a calculator. I found 19 of my 22 students had phones.”

-Kipp Rogers, Principal at Passages Middle School in Virginia

Mary Passage Middle School Cell Phone Policy 1. Students will talk on their cell phone only to complete assignments that are related to the instructional lesson.2. Students will keep cell phones turned off or left in lockers when they are not being used for instructional purposes in class.3. Students will only send text- messages, pictures or video- messages to others outside of the classroom with permission and directions from the teacher.4. Students will not record still or moving images or voices of students or the teacher without permission from the teacher.5. Students will not post recordings of still or moving images or voice recordings of students or the teacher to online websites without their permission.6. Students will practice internet safety with online resources.7. Students will post only appropriate text, audio and visual media to on-line websites. I _____________________ understand that violation of our class acceptable cell phone use policy may result in my not being able to participate in additional class activities that involve using the cell phone. I also understand that I may receive disciplinary consequences for violating school board policies regarding cyber-bullying. I _______________________ have gone over the Cell Phones in Class Acceptable Use Policy with my child and agree to allow my child to participate. 

5 Rules for Cell Phones in Schools

Set rules based on business regulations for cell phone use (look at business contracts)

Social contract with students

Must be on vibrate at all times

Keep them in the front of the room until you are going to use them.

All messages/media sent or published must be related to lesson.

If you are referencing someone else in class, you must have their approval before posting or publishing.

Create a permission form (in addition to the School’s AUP)

Discuss Mobile Safety & Appropriate Use

• Part of digital footprint

• Your digital dossier that includes Internet activity such as social networking, email, chat rooms,

• YOU can’t erase this!!! Permanent record

• EVERYTHING you send via text message (pictures, videos, text, audio…etc) is PUBLIC!!!

• Example: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

• Mobile “bullying” and “sexting” is public

• Students should know their plans

• Bring in their cell phone plan and a bill

• Discuss what is charged and how much

• Give Students a Survey

Learn more specific safety tips at Connectsafely

How Students Can Document Learning on a BASIC cell phone?

• SMS Texting• Group Brainstorming, alerts, polls, surveys,

quizzes,

• MMS Texting• Send pictures/videos to instructor & other

students

• Phone Call• Record interviews, observations, brainstorms,

quizzes…etc.

Questions…

• Do ALL students need their own phone?• NO! Groups, Web Options, Landlines

• What if my school does not allow cell phones on campus?• Activities work very well off-campus for homework

• Can I use a BASIC phone?• YES! Phone call, text message, take a picture…

• Does it costs money?• The resources are FREE, students should know their plans

• Students with disabilities?• Speech to Text & Text to Speech Options

#1 Mobile Podcasting/Live Radio

Using a cell phone to record and then posting the recording to a public or private website that has an RSS feed and can be downloaded as an MP3 file.

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Field Trips

High School Chemistry Students on a field trip at Cranbrook Science Museum in MI.

Cell Phones pictures documented chemical elements.

Used: Camera on cell phone and sent to drop.io at http://drop.io/CKCHEM4

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Radio Theater

Elementary School 3rd-6th graders

Used: http://hipcast.com

Web link:

http://stjosephschooltrenton.com/blog/

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Author Study

Middle School 6th-7th Grade

Used: http://gabcast.com

Web link:

http://541sparkes.blogspot.com/2007/07/author-blog-6.html

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Science Inquiry Questions

High School Earth Science

Used http://gabcast.com

Web link:

http://mrsleeswebblog.blogspot.com/

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Connecting Algebra to Real World

High School Algebra

Used http://yodio.com

Web link:

http://www.yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=LvAhgDUPZd6UbBgsTMN2aC

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Live Radio Broadcasts

High School Students Community Live Radio Show in Maine

Used http://blogtalkradio.com

Web link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lobstertalk

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization

Using your cell phone to create speech to text reminders, emails, twitters, scheduled items on web-based calendars, get translations, and more!

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization

• http://dial2do.com Create an account

• Send Emails

• Transcription

• Translation

• Post to your Google Calendar, get SMS reminders of your events.

• Create reminders

• Listen to any website or news feed

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization Project: Student’s

Mobile Scheduling

High School Technology Students

Created a Google Calendar where all assignments are posted and sent via cell phones

Also use Remember the Milk to set up “To Do lists” for students via cell phone

Used http://dial2do.com

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/kicking-off-school-year-web-20-style-w.html

#3 Text Message Alerts!

Sending out mass text messages to large or small groups of people.

http://textmarks.com

#3 Text Message Project: Text Homework Alerts

Jimbo Lamb

High School Math Teacher

Pennsylvania

Text for Homework

Uses: http://textmarks.com

http://mrlambmath.wikispaces.com/

#3 Alerts Project: Film on the Fly

http://www.koce.org/filmonthefly http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

9th Graders Text Messaging Romeo and Juliet

• 9th Grade English in Michigan

• Translating Romeo and Juliet to “text speak”

• Start in class with translating a few lines to a wiffiti board.

• Voting on best “translations”

• Move to Homework

• Create a whole text message novel of Romeo and Juliet

Text Message Principal

“Principal Michael Bregy told all 2,400 students in the building to take out their cell phones and save his personal cell phone number.”

http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=332034

#3 Mobile Novel Project: Cell Phone Bestseller

Popular in Asia to Read Novels Via Cell.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Use a cell phone to write a private or collaborative novel, poem, chapter review, or short story to “publish” on a cell phone.

#3 Mobile Novels

http://textnovel.com

#4 Mobile Photo and Video blogging or Posting

Posting an image, video, or text message to a web blog or private photo place on the web directly from your cell phone.

Flickr Mobile: Post Pics/Videos to Internet

Add as a new Email Contact: tall63haw@photos.flickr.com  

Photos Show Up Here

• http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com

#4 Photoblogging Project: iReporting

Mobile Journalism

High School Students Document Inauguration

Tools: Flickr, Twitter, YouTube

http://wainauguration.org/

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Lab Activities

Mathematics teacher has students document their mathematical steps and lab activities, then put them into a slideshow along with process explanation.

Web link: http://mathematicslearning.blogspot.com/2008/04/mobile-has-changed-my-way.html

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Cell Phones & Facebook to

Document Everyday Culture

Psychology teacher in Michigan has students document everyday cultural experiences with cell phone and sends them to class Facebook account.

Web link:

Protected in Facebook

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Send Videos of Homework to Cells

Physical Education Teacher in Australia

Used:

http://Utterli.com

Web link:

http://mrobbo.com

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Australian Environment

9th Grade Geography students in Australia

Used:

http://Utterli.com

Web link:

http://australianenvironment.wordpress.com/

#5 Web 2.0 Voicemail

A cell phone that couples with a website in order to create MP3 files of voicemails, transcripts of voicemails, smart greeting for individual or groups of callers, and stores all calling information.

http://google.com/voice

(734) 408-4495

Google Voice in Foreign Language

• http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/CellPhonesintheLanguageClassro/192995

#6 Create Your Own Mobile Scavenger Hunt

• http://www.scvngr.com

#7 Avatar Project: Spanish Oral Exams

High School Spanish 2 & 3 Students

Developed an Avatar to take oral exams

Used http://voki.com

Focus: Engagement in oral speaking, oral speaking exams, culture representation with images

#8 QRcodes

• Bar codes for cell phones. Take a picture of a bar code and receive information on your phone.

• http://kaywa.com

Geo-Blogging Project: Orienteering

http://kaywa.com

http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/

Listen to Any Podcast or RSS Feed Via Phone

http://podlinez.com/Get a phone number for

ANY Internet podcast

Live Video Streaming from Cells

• http://qik.com/

http://qik.com/video/2564183

Follow a teacher in his first year of using cell phones

George Engel (HS Math Teacher)

• http://www.cellularlearning.org

Getting Started

• DO NOT attempt to change policy (yet)

• Survey Students on Cell Phones• Who has one? What is their plan? Preference for Communication?

• Talk with students about cell phone safety & etiquette• Create a social contract for cell phone use with school

assignments• Show Digital Dossier Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA

• Start with OPTIONAL homework/EC projects outside of classroom.

• Start with what YOU are comfortable with (such as phone call resources like Drop.io)

Modeling with preservice Education

• Polling and Wiffiti boards

• Textmarks Text Alert• Class Alert

• Mobile Twitter• Class discussions (mobile discussions)

• Drop.io• Store data that is collected in student teaching setting• Collect research data for projects

• Qrcode (with Kaywa)• Syllabus and some assignments

• Mobile Blogging with Blogger• Maintain a year long blog (optional mobile image and video posts)• Audio posts via iPadio

• Class calendar with Google SMS

• Weekly radio podcast with Blogtalkradio

• Google Voice• Audio-based assignments such as reflections on homework readings