Celly and the Common Core Standards

Celly and the Common Core Standards

The Innovative Educator: Ideas for Managing the Cell Phone Classroom

The Innovative Educator: Ideas for Managing the Cell Phone Classroom: As with the use of any technology in the classroom, when using cell phones in the classroom you must have classroom management procedures ...

Not banning cell phones...

My question of the week involves whether I should allow kids to use their own devices in class...I have been wondering if my reticence has more to do with my 20th century upbringing than modern best practices...after all, a text is like when a student is communicating with another student at their table. Most of the time it is over before I've had time to register it, and no harm done...I do continue to have a problem with those people using their phones almost all the time...they are like my chatty kids in the electronic sense.

I found this article which discusses some of these issues:

http://thejournal.com/Articles/2012/05/09/Why-BYOD-Not-Banning-Cell-Phones-Is-the-Answer.aspx

This is what I have learned this week:
1. There is not a lot of published scholarly research about iPads.(ERIC was no help at all)
2. The best information about implementing iPads is found on blogs, online newsletters and other social media outlets. (duh, I feel stupid).
3. Forgetting your iTunes password can be problematic when a) you used a fake birthday to create the account and can't remember it and you have to pass the birthday screen to get to the security questions, and b) the district obliterates any reminder email because it is evil social media.
And, 4. Seriously, I am terrified by the enormity of what I'm about to do and the pressure to do it well has practically immobilized me. I'm trying to take it one step at a time....