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Think Outside the Ban December 2, 2009

Think Outside the Ban
The Use of Cell Phones in Schools
Mike Speidel
Loudoun County Public Schools

• Middle School (6-8)
  • 90% of students have cell phones
  • Of those, 90% had unlimited text
  • and, over 50% had data plans

• Today’s high end cell phones have more computing power than a desktop PC in 1995.

• Today’s simples phones have more powerful chips than the 1969 onboard computer that landed a man on the moon.

• If the kids are going to use cell phones to cheat, and you ban phones, will you ban paper when they pass notes to cheat?

• By using cell phones for educational purposes, you’re hijacking kids’ time for ed purposes without them realizing it!

• http://www.txtblaster.com
  • manage groups via text message
• http://www.wiffitit.com
  • Public messaging board
• Search Engines
  • Google SMS
  • ChaCha
  • Dotgo
• Mobile Podcasting
  • http://www.gcast.com
  • http://www.yodio.com
• Voice to Text Transcription
  • http://dial2do.com
  • Google Voice
• Geo-tagging
  • http://www.geograffiti.com
  • http://www.flagr.com
• QR Codes
  • Much like bar codes
  • Any phone with a camera can read QR codes if you have the right software
  • You can create your own QR codes to instruct phones to do certain things
    • http://zxing.appspot.com/generator

• Interactive Response
  • http://www.polleverywhere.com

More resources: http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com