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Three Ideas for using cells to strengthen the home school connectionUse group texting through your phone provider or through a service like Swaggle to send out reminders to parents.Show parents/families/guardians their thoughts and opinions matter. Poll them or request open response using a tool like Polleverywhere. Text home to celebrate student success or reach out via text if there is an area of concern. This can be done quickly with minimal disruption to either party.

Three Ideas for enabling students to use cell phones for homeworkUsing cell phones to enrich learning makes a lot of sense for schools and districts that ban students from using personal learning devices at schools and enables educational leaders interesting in changing policy to gain some evidence of how these tools can benefit student learning.Use ChaCha to connect your students to a free network of thousands of guides who can help them when they get stuck and/or have no one around to help. Have students do their oral reports using Google Voice. If they don't like how they sounded the first time, they don't have to send the message. They can re-record until they have something with which they are happy.Test prior knowledge of a unit your class is about to study and use Wifitti to have students share one thing they know about the subject.

Three Ideas for Empowering Students in the Use of Cell Phones for LearningYou're going on a field trip. Ask students to determine how they might want to use cell phones to meet the learning goals of the trip using tools most phones have. They may decide to Tweet for a scavenger hunt, send reflections to Wifitti or capture pictures with captures to Flickr.You're about to learn about a new country or explore your own neighborhood. Ask students for ideas to meet learning goals using their cells. Have them use Google SMS to collect data about the area.Students are asked to share how hard work impacted someone influential in their lives. Invite them to use cell phones if they'd like. Perhaps they use a Voki character with a phone to record their voice. Maybe they'll suggest a Drop.io account is set up where the subject and people s/he knows can share experiences. Perhaps they set up a Google Voice account to capture responses.