bRinging tools to class

Today during a Math lesson on Surface Area and Volume:

Mr. Truss, I forgot my calculator, can I borrow one?

Do you have your cell phone?

Yes?

Then you have a calculator.

Really? I can use my cell phone?

Really!

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Cell phones and mp3 players in the classroom: Not Obstacles but Opportunities

"Kids are going to text message.

How are we going to make that work in our school?"

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"When someone wants to ban something, I ask myself,

how can we use this to help us in education? ‘It is a new tool’. Not obstacles but opportunities."

Chris Kennedy

It is time for us to PAY ATTENTION!

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Comment by Glenn Moses on June 8, 2007 at 12:16pm: Awesome. I'm working with some ways to use twitter with students and parents. There's so many applications for these tools. Any chance that educators are going to stop being reactionary to the determent of our students?