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Connecting Student Cell Phones to Classroom Instruction

Liz KolbUniversity of MichiganMadonna Universityelikeren@umich.edu

http://cellphonesinlearning.com

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Why should we use cell phones in learning?

http://wiffiti.com/clouds/1685

CPSProject: Brainstorming

Why Cell Phones?

Accessibility

71% of U.S. population have Internet access at home

55% have broadband

84% of U.S. population own cell phones

Low Cost

End of 2012 education technology spending will reach 56.2 billion dollars.

How Students’ View Cell Phones

3 Generations of Cell Phone Users (NPR)

How Students View Learning

Free Agent Learners

Anywhere, anytime, any place at any pace

1-800-2chacha OR Text CHACHA

The 21st Century Professional World

Future jobs require mobile skill

% of U.S. Adults believe that schools are preparing students for 21st Century workforce?

Questions…

Do ALL students need their own phone? NO! Groups, Web Options, Landlines

What if my school does not allow cell phones on campus? Activities work very well off-campus for homework

Can I use a BASIC phone? YES! Phone call, text message, take a picture…

Does it costs money? The resources are FREE, students should know their

plans

Students with disabilities? Speech to Text & Text to Speech Options

How Students Can Document Learning on a BASIC cell phone

SMS Texting Group Brainstorming, alerts, polls, surveys, quizzes,

MMS Texting Send pictures/videos to instructor & other students

Phone Call Record interviews, observations, brainstorms,

quizzes…etc.

#1 Mobile Podcasting/Live Radio

Using a cell phone to record and then posting the recording to a public or private website that has an RSS feed and can be downloaded as an MP3 file.

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Field Trips

High School Chemistry Students on a field trip at Cranbrook Science Museum in MI.

Cell Phones pictures documented chemical elements.

Used: Camera on cell phone and sent to drop.io at http://drop.io/CKCHEM4

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Radio Theater

Elementary School 3rd-6th graders

Used: http://hipcast.com

Web link:

http://stjosephschooltrenton.com/blog/

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Author Study

Middle School 6th-7th Grade

Used: http://gabcast.com

Web link:

http://541sparkes.blogspot.com/2007/07/author-blog-6.html

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Science Inquiry Questions

High School Earth Science

Used http://gabcast.com

Web link:

http://mrsleeswebblog.blogspot.com/

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Connecting Algebra to Real World

High School Algebra

Used http://yodio.com

Web link:

http://www.yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=LvAhgDUPZd6UbBgsTMN2aC

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Live Radio Broadcasts

High School Students Community Live Radio Show in Maine

Used http://blogtalkradio.com

Web link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lobstertalk

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization

Using your cell phone to create speech to text reminders, emails, twitters, scheduled items on web-based calendars, get translations, and more!

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization

http://dial2do.com Create an account

Send Emails

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Translation

Post to your Google Calendar, get SMS reminders of your events.

Create reminders

Listen to any website or news feed

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization Project: Student’s

Mobile Scheduling

High School Technology Students

Created a Google Calendar where all assignments are posted and sent via cell phones

Also use Remember the Milk to set up “To Do lists” for students via cell phone

Used http://dial2do.com

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/kicking-off-school-year-web-20-style-w.html

#3 Text Message Alerts!

Sending out mass text messages to large or small groups of people.

http://textmarks.com

#3 Text Message Project: Text Homework Alerts

Jimbo Lamb

High School Math Teacher

Pennsylvania

Text for Homework

Uses: http://textmarks.com

http://mrlambmath.wikispaces.com/

#3 Alerts Project: Film on the Fly

http://www.koce.org/filmonthefly http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

#3 Text Alert Project: Text-An-Expert

9th Grade High School Social Studies

“Who was the first man to walk on the moon”

Power of Networks in Digital World

9th Graders Text Messaging Romeo and Juliet

• 9th Grade English in Michigan

• Translating Romeo and Juliet to “text speak”

• Start in class with translating a few lines to a wiffiti board.

• Voting on best “translations”

• Move to Homework

• Create a whole text message novel of Romeo and Juliet

Text Message Principal

“Principal Michael Bregy told all 2,400 students in the building to take out their cell phones and save his personal cell phone number.”

http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=332034

#3 Mobile Novel Project: Cell Phone Bestseller

Popular in Asia to Read Novels Via Cell.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Use a cell phone to write a private or collaborative novel, poem, chapter review, or short story to “publish” on a cell phone.

#3 Mobile Novels

http://textnovel.com

#4 Mobile Photo and Video blogging or Posting

Posting an image, video, or text message to a web blog or private photo place on the web directly from your cell phone.

Flickr Mobile: Post Pics/Videos to Internet

Add as a new Email Contact: tall63haw@photos.flickr.com  

Photos Show Up Here

http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com

#4 Photoblogging Project: iReporting

Mobile Journalism

High School Students Document Inauguration

Tools: Flickr, Twitter, YouTube

http://wainauguration.org/

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Lab Activities

Mathematics teacher has students document their mathematical steps and lab activities, then put them into a slideshow along with process explanation.

Web link: http://mathematicslearning.blogspot.com/2008/04/mobile-has-changed-my-way.html

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Cell Phones & Facebook to Document Everyday Culture

Psychology teacher in Michigan has students document everyday cultural experiences with cell phone and sends them to class Facebook account.

Web link:

Protected in Facebook

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Send Videos of Homework to Cells

Physical Education Teacher in Australia

Used:

http://Utterli.com

Web link:

http://mrobbo.com

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Australian Environment

9th Grade Geography students in Australia

Used:

http://Utterli.com

Web link:

http://australianenvironment.wordpress.com/

#6 Location Mobile Blogging

Posting an image, audio file, or text message to a specific location on a map directly from your cell phone.

#6 Location Mobile Blogging Project: North American Lighthouses

http://flagr.com

#5 Survey or Quiz Audio Blast!

Send an audio quiz or survey to multiple cell phones at once.

Receive instant feedback as they take quiz/survey

Results all compiled in private account.

Hey Cosmos: Blaster

Listen to Any Podcast or RSS Feed Via Phone

http://podlinez.com/Get a phone number for

ANY Internet podcast

Call and Listen to MOMA’s latest galleries

1 (801) 349-3832

#6 Web 2.0 Voicemail

A cell phone that couples with a website in order to create MP3 files of voicemails, transcripts of voicemails, smart greeting for individual or groups of callers, and stores all calling information.

http://google.com/voice

(734) 408-4495

Google Voice in Foreign Language

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/CellPhonesintheLanguageClassro/192995

#6 Create Your Own Mobile Scavenger Hunt

http://www.scvngr.com

QRcodes

Bar codes for cell phones. Take a picture of a bar code and receive information on your phone.

http://kaywa.com

Geo-Blogging Project: Orienteering

http://kaywa.com

http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/

#2 Avatar Project: Spanish Oral Exams

High School Spanish 2 & 3 Students

Developed an Avatar to take oral exams

Used http://voki.com

Focus: Engagement in oral speaking, oral speaking exams, culture representation with images

Live Video Streaming from Cells

http://qik.com/

http://qik.com/video/2564183

Follow a teacher in his first year of using cell phones

George Engel (HS Math Teacher)

http://www.cellularlearning.org

Getting Started

DO NOT attempt to change policy (yet)

Survey Students on Cell Phones Who has one? What is their plan? Preference for

Communication?

Talk with students about cell phone safety & etiquette Create a social contract for cell phone use with school

assignments Show Digital Dossier Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA

Start with OPTIONAL homework/EC projects outside of classroom.

Start with what YOU are comfortable with (such as phone call resources like Drop.io)