Ruth’s Ruckus2

Ok.  So I’m trying to blog live instead of taking notes that will never get transcribed.  So right now we are all taking out our phones and waving them at him.  We list the devices that we are holding in our hands:

• Telephone
• Clock
• text messenger
• still camera
• video camera
• video player
• GPS device
• Podcast (Gcast)
• Music Player

These are tools that all of our kids have all the time in their pocket at school.  It’s a powerful device and the kids bring them to school VOLUNTARILY!!  We will not debate whether or not cell phones should be in school.  Even those in this audience will admit to taking them away.  We need to teach kids appropriate uses.  We don’t want to fight this - we will lose this debate.  We ought to just make this work.  Parents are not going to give up a device that allows them to track and monitor their kids.

There are twice as many texters as there are emailers.  16% of homes in US are exclusively wireless - they have no land line phones.  30 countries exceed 100% penetration in cellphones…US is behind because we had land lines before others did.   Lots of third world countires allow cell phones, businesses allow cell phones, but they are banned - by your local high schools.

Location based technologies can become location based teachable moments: Write a review after you watch the movie, take a picture of rectangles on the bus.  If our non-working hours have been ruined by cell phones, why can’t our students??

Uses for cell phone technology:

• Live feeds from cell phones www.qik.com - use IP cameras for school security (Cisco gets it)
• Pre/post lesson videos uploaded to a secure site for parents to watch (like youtube, but secure)
• Teacher’s video lesson plans or other instructions for the sub
• Report on the outcome of a meeting
• Create a video challenge for your students
• Video message sent to parents (like phonevite, but in video)
• Use the phone to video student presentation and then send it to the kids parents
• www.Jott.com  - turns voice into text (Hall records to twitter from Jott)  You can use the same technology to post to Google Clendar -Administrator could use JOTT to document intervention- Jott will transfer voice to email, blogs, twitter etc.
• GCAST for podacasting - Student can use it to interview subjects for a report - using their own cellphones - Have students call in to answer challenge questions, answer a prompt, students can recite times tables, or play the piece they were supposed to practice.
• Langugae arts: Text a story in six words
• Polleverywhere: Free app use cell phone to text and answer a poll

Text message 34381 and they’ll give the food chain and menu item, they will send you the nutrition breakdown.

Go to discoverymobile.com you can get the quizbuilder via cell phones.

handouts:

http://DiscoveryEdSpeakersBureau.com

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