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Connecting Student Cell Phones to Classroom Instruction
Liz KolbUniversity of MichiganMadonna [email protected]
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
Transcription
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: [email protected]
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.
#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
QRcodes
Bar codes for cell phones. Take a picture of a bar code and receive information on your phone.
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)