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Teaching Generation Text CCIRA-On the Road to Literacy February 3, 2011

Presenter(s)-Willyn Webb, MA, LPC, NCC

Why Are We Here? It's no longer IF, but WHEN and how we use cell phones in education. Even our Secretary of Education realizes how much sense it makes to support cell phones for learning.


 * 3 Steps For Cells---You can use your phone to support your teaching, regardless of the policies in your district.**


 * 1. Use Your Cell Phone Yourself**
 * Professionally-text, poll, or gather ideas from/with your peers.
 * Personally-module your use of phone tools for organization, research, notes, communication.


 * 2. Use Cell Phones Outside of Class**
 * With parents-strengthen the home school connection
 * With students-homework is a great place to use cells,
 * group texts offer fast ways to provide cues/questions before and review after class and extend learning
 * increased communication builds relationships
 * support their use of cells outside of class for learning, research, and capture--ChaCha, Voki, Googlevoice
 * group work can happen in the real world


 * 3. Use Cell Phones In Class**
 * Allow students to choose the device that makes the best sense for them to support their learning
 * Enjoy 100% participation in idea sharing, brainstorming, and feedback with polls & wiffiti pages
 * Individualize instruction for special needs students
 * Plan lessons using research-based learning strategies enhance by cell phone technologies
 * **Let's look at some research based strategies for classroom instruction supported by cell phones**

According to Marzano, Pickering, and Polluck, "Cues, questions, and advance organizers.....Summarizing and note taking.....Using nonlinguistic representations......Cooperative learning groups

Now that you've seen how cell phones can be used even where they are banned, you will be motivated to start today. You may even be motivated to start changing your district's policy. This link to "Talking Points for Texting" will provide you with the points you'll need to make, the data you can easily collect to support the case in your district, and the research base to refute the arguments. A forward focused conversation for what is best for students making the case that cells make sense can be started in your district.