Appropriate Grade Levels for Cell Phone Integration

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Permalink Reply by Hasnain Zafar Baloch on April 11, 2012 at 7:05am

Its good idea to integrate mobile phones, we can have MCQ quizzes or Cross word puzzle or any other games like hang man for vocabulary. Pollanywhere for collaborative polling for any event. It is depend or the way we design learning activities so that students can engage more with learning using mobile phones. Mobile phones can be key motivator for learning if we carefully design learning activities with more collaborative and engagement of learner.

Permalink Reply by Liz Klein on April 14, 2012 at 1:27pm

I teach in a middle school and my students are also not allowed to have cell phones at school. There is also a very negative perspective of them at my school as well. What I did find is that there are resources that allow students to use cell phones at home like using the texting poll. My students loved doing this when I implemented it in my classroom. Maybe the best way to help bridge the gap is incorporating a cell phone in homework assignments so they are not a distraction in school.

Permalink Reply by Carlie Ferschneider on April 21, 2012 at 7:38am

        I teach sixth grade and cell phones are not viewed in a positive manner at my school either. As mentioned in a discussion that I started, I am concerned about integrating these devices if all students do not have access to them. I think many teachers think that most students have access to a cell phone but this does not mean that ALL students do. I would never want to make a student feel left out because they do not have a cell phone. Several students in my grade come from families that are not able to afford cell phone plans. I think that in older grades the amount of students with cell phones would be much higher but there are still several students in younger grades that do not have possession of these technological tools.