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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Class, Open Your Phones - Terry Freedman, Technology & Learning
Cell phones are often tolerated in schools as long as they are turned off during lessons; sometimes they're banned outright. But as online learning mobile technologies continue to improve and pioneers find innovative ways to use them, it's only a matter of time before students are admonished for not bringing their phones to class. Let's start with the phones themselves, whose usefulness is improving with every new model. For example, almost all cell phones now have note-taking and calendar features, so there's no excuse for students forgetting their homework assignments. And the ubiquitous calculator feature can be used in math lessons, of course.
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