TECHILEARNING

THE TEN  BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LEARNING WITH CELL PHONES
Innovative educators George Engel, Rob Griffith, Scott Newcomb, Lisa Nielsen, Jason Suter, and Willyn Webb know that when it comes to preparing students for success in the 21st century, you not only have to think outside the ban, but also may have to dive in head first and break it. The following is a collection of ideas each teacher implemented to successfully break and/or work within the ban where they teach in an effort to empower students with the freedom to use their cell phones as personal learning devices.
 
                                                                                 


The Ten Building Blocks for Learning with Cell Phones
1) Build Relationships
Breaking the ban starts with the building of relationships with key constituents. Here is advice on how to get started.

·  with self: Realize that leadership begins with example.

·  with students: Let students know you care about making learning fun and relevant and ask them if they’d like the option to be able to do work using their cell phones.

·  with parents and guardians: Start with the parents by using the cell phone as a tool to bridge the home-school connection. You can have a “Text-of-the-Day” to update parents on what’s happening in the class.

·  with colleagues: Try to establish yourself as an innovative leader when it comes to empowering students and teachers with technology. A focus on student centered learning is key

·  with administration: Start by working within the system to bring about technological change. Become known as someone that works with what your school has on hand and is flexible to administrative needs.

·  with district: Become known as a tech leader. Offer to participate in school and district-wide technology decisions. Offer to collaborate with the district technology coordinator and others to help establish a new acceptable use policy (AUP) that will allow the use of cell phones as a learning tool.

                                             

 

Is very important that students are aware of new technologies to enable them to innovate every day. it is also important that everything new that they will learn it can be put into practice in the classroom.