Anderson said cell phones are getting a second look at the
senior high. As the phones have become more pervasive and more
powerful, teachers and administrators have begun to look at ways
they can be used as tools to enhance education rather than disrupt
it. Students with Internet-capable phones have access to the
district's Infinite Campus student management system, to check
assignments, contact teachers and manage their school life online,
he said. Mobile communications are an ever-growing part of what
students have to cope with and manage, he said. "It's appropriate
to bring that into our curriculum."
While more and more students carry more and more powerful mobile
phones, those who remain unconnected have one fewer option than
they did several years ago. There's no point in a student keeping a
few coins in his pocket in case he needs to use a pay phone -
coin-operated phones have left the buildings. "I don't think they'd
know how to use one," Anderson said.
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Dwight Huber, a professor in the English department, has a practical approach to the issue of cell phones and classroom disruptions. "Students are generally engaged enough in my classes not to have the time to talk on a cell or text anyone," he said. "With active learning, an instructor doesn't need policies as such.
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This schism between how schools have traditionally taught and how students want to learn is bringing education ever closer to a tipping point.
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"When you cram any innovation, in any sector, into an existing model, that model basically usurps it, conforms it to the way the model already operates," says Michael Horn, a co-author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. "It doesn't fundamentally change that factory model in a way that's student-centric. It doesn't give each student what [he or she] really need[s]."
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Bruce - wow - some really cool ideas in this. I can definitely see how hooking up a 64GB iphone to a keyboard and screen being the way things get done in the future. Lots of good ideas about 'transformation'. Teachers need a roadmap for how to make the shift. More and more articles like this will make it clear to them that they need to change, but they have no idea how to.
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