Last week in class, I was in the #1 group and we examined the technology piece. One of the technologies was the IPHONE. When I saw think link on Safari this morning, I realized that some places are already piloting the IPHONE in the classroom. Some of us keep hoping to get a few extra computers in our classrooms for research and writing, but perhaps we will be bypassing the computers and heading straight for phones. I wonder how high schools and college/universities are able to set limits on the uses of cell phones in the classroom. For example, do students still try to text and cheat? Are students using the technology to anonymously bully other students in the classroom? How do we take the benefits of mobile technology and eliminate the problems?
Even if we get past any potential issues, who provides the IPHONES to every student? Will students be expected to have one when they enter or will the schools be purchasing them? What happens if one student loses it? forgets it? breaks it? I think it is an exciting possibility that we could create a new immediate technology if it could be distributed equally and limits were set to protect students from abuse.
Friday, December 11, 2009
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I think all of this is so neat. It is hard to wrap your mind around the fact that it's almost a thrill to get an old eMac added to your classroom computer collection replacing an old blue one (at least at the elementary level), when the move should really be to these newer technologies. I watched a video about using twitter in the classroom, where college students are using phones (and computers) to tweet about the discussion/lecture. Just heard on the news this morning that Holliston is thinking of requiring student to have macbooks. Teachers received them for free.... Leo? (Link to twitter video if interested -
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I'm confused. If the comparison is to having more classroom computers for research and writing, how is an iphone going to replace that? I know that you can surf the Net from one, but to actually write a composition on it??? Among other things, I can't imagine that a lot of doing that would be good for little growing fingers. . .
ReplyDeleteInteresting ideas Sally! I'm hardly an inventor, but I imagine it would be great to have an iphone-like device that would have login capabilities just like the school computers and then they could be housed and charged in the classroom. Also, if this fictitious device were customizable, hopefully we would be able to get rid of the chatting/texting features. Also, if such a device existed, I'd think it would be cheaper per student than laptops. But, like Diana mentioned, could such a device be used for word-processing?
ReplyDeleteHow about a classroom with one or more of each: desktop; laptop; netbook; AlphaSmart's Neo2; iPhone/iTouch? Each used when it's the best tool for the task.
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