Technology and the ClassroomCell Phones & Social Networking

PollEverywhere

Why Cell Phones?• Accessibility

• 71% of U.S. population have Internet access at home

• 55% have broadband• 84% of U.S. population own cell phones

• Low Cost• End of 2012 education technology spending

will reach 56.2 billion dollars.• How Students’ View Cell Phones

• 3 Generations of Cell Phone Users (NPR)• How Students View Learning

• Free Agent Learners• Anywhere, anytime, any place at any pace• 1-800-2chacha OR Text CHACHA

• The 21st Century Professional World• Future jobs require mobile skill• % of U.S. Adults believe that schools are pr

eparing students for 21st Century workforce?

Word Cloud from Wordle.net

Questions…

• Do ALL students need their own phone?• NO! Groups, Web Options, Landlines

• What if my school does not allow cell phones on campus?• Activities work very well off-campus for homework

• Can I use a BASIC phone?• YES! Phone call, text message, take a picture…

• Does it costs money?• The resources are FREE, students should know their plans

• Students with disabilities?• Speech to Text & Text to Speech Options

How Students Can Document Learning on a BASIC cell phone

• SMS Texting• Group Brainstorming, alerts, polls, surveys, quizzes,

• MMS Texting• Send pictures/videos to instructor & other students

• Phone Call• Record interviews, observations, brainstorms,

quizzes…etc.

ARGUMENTS FOR USING STUDENTS’ EVERYDAY TOOLS

Access

• 76% of secondary students have their own cell phones

• 80% of secondary students have MP3 players (Project Tomorrow, 2008, Apr. 8).

• 84% of children between the ages of 8 to 10 have a video game player in their household (Rideout et al, 2005).

• 93% of teenagers use the Internet• 55% of 12-17 year olds have a profile on Facebook or

Myspace (Lenhart et al, 2007).

WELCOME TO THE ERA OF THE…FREE AGENT LEARNER

Technology enabled

bottom up learner

ANYTIME

ANYWHERE

ANYPLACE

ANY PACE

Millennials Rising (Neil Howe and William Strauss)

How 21st Century Students learn best…

Collaboratively

Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any pace

Structured activities

Relevancy with real world

*They want to do this with the TECHNOLOGY of their generation

For Example…• 1-800-2ChaCha• Txt 242242• ChaCha.com

Fundamental Shift in 21st Century Workforce

• Technological changes are displacing low-skilled workers and making room for more high-skilled creative and innovative workers.

• Employers are calling for schools to integrate new skills into education

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

12% OF U.S. ADULT POPULAR BELIEVE THAT STUDENTS ARE BEING PREPARED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WORKFORCE

Mobile Job Opportunities for Students

Companies Go Mobile

Mobile Advertising• Latest News on Mobile

Marketing• SMS & QRcodes & Call

Ins• http://mobilemarketer.com

Mobile Coupons• SMS & MMS• http://mobileposse.com

Where are we going?

Search for “cell phone skills” on Monster.com

Fundamental Shift in Citizenship Practices

• 74% of all 18-24 year olds were politically active on the Internet during the 2008 campaign

• During the 2008 campaign, 49% of younger voters (18-24) shared information via text message about the campaigns.

Research says…

1) "The proportions of textisms that kids used in their sentence translations was positively linked to verbal reasoning; the more textspeak kids used, the higher their test scores”

2) "The younger the age at which the kids had received mobile phones, the better their ability to read words and identify patterns of sound in speech.”

http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/news.cfm/newsid/14

Why cell phones should NOT be integrated in learning.

Text @wif28254 + your message to 87884

http://wiffiti.com/screens/28254

 

Cheating is a problem…• 26% of teenagers admitted to using their cell

phone to store information to look at during a test or a quiz.

• 25% have text messaged their friends about answers during a test or quiz.

• 20% have searched the Internet via their mobile phone during a test or quiz.

• 17% have taken pictures of a test or quiz with the cell phone in order to send the pictures to their friends.Common Sense Media 09

Even MORE of a problem

Most students do not envision these activities as cheating.

More than half of the students surveyed did not think these acts were serious offenses of cheating, rather they think of it as just “helping out a friend.”

Common Sense Media 09

70% of U.S. schools completely ban cell phones from campus

63% of students admitted to sneaking in cell phones and using them during class anyway.

In a seven class a day, five day school week, the average student sends at least three text messages per class.

Common Sense Media 09

Life Consequences• Students are sometimes “sexting” “to friends for

their entertainment value, as a joke or for fun."• Six teens face child porn (13 to 15) charges

after being caught "sexting" each other. Criminal Charge!

• IN PA, 3 girls (12, 12, 16) charged with child pornography for sexing. Picture of them in bras.

• 15% of teenagers have risque photos of themselves or their friends on their cell phones. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/01/15/pn.sexting.teens.cnn

Current Banning and Structures are NOT working

• Students still “cheating”, “Off-task”, or “inappropriately” using cell phones in schools

• Students still bring them to schools and use them when told not to.

• Students still do not understand consequences of their use

• Students have no idea how to use them in future job force!

THE SOLUTION?

Bottom-Up

What is inYour

Backpack?

"Kids tell us they power down to come to school.”

-Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow (2008)

Technology in Education• We use the Internet because it is a great

resource and a majority of our students have access at home.

• We are comfortable with our current technology• But…

71% of U.S. household’s have Internet access82% of U.S. Citizens own Cell phones.

Park Associates and CTIA wireless association, both 2007

By the end of 2010 it is estimated that…54% of 8 year olds will have their own cell phone!

Amoroso, (2006). Tween Market has the potential to double by 2010. Yankee Group Retrieved from www.yankeegroup.com/researchdocument.dorid=14058

Over 90% of Secondary Students will have cell phones

2007: Middle School Principal’s Journey

“Last year the school ran out of calculators needed for a math exam, So I let a student use the calculator function on his cell phone. The student was excitedto use a phone instead of a calculator. I found 19 of my 22 students had phones.”

-Kipp Rogers, Principal at Passages Middle School in Virginia

Addressing: Safety & AccessDr. Kipp Rogers Says…

"For the most part, the kids respect the rules. I never had any problems with kids using them inappropriately in my class. We spent a lot of time talking about their digital footprint and that what they do can be tracked.”

He said he initially worried about "the haves and have nots," but students work in teams for most assignments requiring cell phones, so there is always at least one phone among the group.

First Project

How to use Google to find information with their phones. (GOOGLE (466453).

http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sms.html#p=default

Using key words, students can look up definitions, download weather, get directions, search for information about a location or object, translate a word or phrase into Spanish or French or receive the latest sports scores for their favorite teams.

iReporting

Students also use their phones to take photos and assemble reports and story projects on Blogger.com

Some classes have blogs developed by the students with uploaded text, photos and audio clips.

Most of the programs he and the other teachers use are free.

Reviewing“Students sat in small groups in the classroom, staring

intently at a projected image at the front of the class. A question popped onto the screen. I gave the students a six-digit number and said, ‘Go.’ Instantly thumbs began dancing over cell phone keypads. Within seconds, phones trilled the signal that a text message had been sent. At the same time, answers began dropping into view on the screen, one answer for each group of students, identified by a student's cell phone screen name.” – Tony Neeley, Science Teacher

In less than an hour, the students worked their way through more than 70 questions for a semester exam review, with every eighth-grader participating!

Teacher’s Reactions

Teachers said participation is up and discipline problems are down in classes using cell phones.

Rogers is looking for ways to expand the phones' uses. "It's fighting a losing battle to ask them to leave them at home.”

Learn more from Dr. Rogers: http://passage.nn.k12.va.us/

Student’s ReactionSixth-grader Cassie Garn said her English teacher

uses cell phones for several exercises.

"This is more interesting and people pay attention," she said. "It's fun. It beats writing stuff down and everybody likes to try to be first."

“My teacher roams the room to make sure students are sending answers and not texts to friends.”

"It's all related to work," Garn said. "We're not texting other people."

5 Rules for Cell Phones in SchoolsSet rules based on business regulations for cell phone

use (look at business contracts)

Social contract with studentsMust be on vibrate at all timesKeep them in the front of the room until you are going

to use them.All messages/media sent or published must be related

to lesson. If you are referencing someone else in class, you must

have their approval before posting or publishing.Create a permission form (in addition to the School’s

AUP)

Discuss Mobile Safety & Appropriate Use

• Part of digital footprint• Your digital dossier that includes Internet activity

such as social networking, email, chat rooms, • YOU can’t erase this!!! Permanent record

• EVERYTHING you send via text message (pictures, videos, text, audio…etc) is PUBLIC!!!• Example: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick• Mobile “bullying” and “sexting” is public

• Students should know their plans• Bring in their cell phone plan and a bill• Discuss what is charged and how much• Give Students a Survey

Learn more specific safety tips at Connectsafely

#1 Mobile Podcasting/Live RadioUsing a cell phone to record and then posting the recording to a public or private website that has an RSS feed and can be downloaded as an MP3 file.

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Field Trips

High School Chemistry Students on a field trip at Cranbrook Science Museum in MI.

Cell Phones pictures documented chemical elements.

Used: Camera on cell phone and sent to drop.io at http://drop.io/CKCHEM4

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Radio Theater

Elementary School 3rd-6th graders

Used: http://hipcast.com

Web link:

http://stjosephschooltrenton.com/blog/

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Author Study

Middle School 6th-7th Grade

Used: http://gabcast.com

Web link:

http://541sparkes.blogspot.com/2007/07/author-blog-6.html

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Science Inquiry Questions

High School Earth Science

Used http://gabcast.com

Web link:

http://mrsleeswebblog.blogspot.com/

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Connecting Algebra to Real World

High School Algebra

Used http://yodio.com

Web link:

http://www.yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=LvAhgDUPZd6UbBgsTMN2aC

#1 Mobile Podcasting Project: Live Radio Broadcasts

High School Students Community Live Radio Show in Maine

Used http://blogtalkradio.com

Web link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lobstertalk

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization

Using your cell phone to create speech to text reminders (free), emails, twitters, scheduled items on web-based calendars, get translations, and more (39.99/yr)!

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization

• http://dial2do.com Create an account

• Send Emails• Transcription• Translation• Post to your Google

Calendar, get SMS reminders of your events.

• Create reminders• Listen to any website or

news feed

#2 Mobile Note taking and Organization Project: Student’s Mobile Scheduling

High School Technology StudentsCreated a Google Calendar where

all assignments are posted and sent via cell phones

Also use Remember the Milk to set up “To Do lists” for students via cell phone

Used http://dial2do.comhttp://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/kicking-off-school-year-web-20-style-w.html

#3 Text Message Alerts!Sending out mass text messages to

large or small groups of people. (free trial, $20,$100)

http://textmarks.com

#3 Text Message Project: Text Homework Alerts

Jimbo Lamb

High School Math Teacher

Pennsylvania

Text for Homework

Uses: http://textmarks.com

http://mrlambmath.wikispaces.com/

#3 Text Alert Project: Text-An-Expert

9th Grade High School Social Studies

“Who was the first man to walk on the moon”

Power of Networks in Digital World

9th Graders Text Messaging Romeo and Juliet

• 9th Grade English in Michigan

• Translating Romeo and Juliet to “text speak”

• Start in class with translating a few lines to a wiffiti board.

• Voting on best “translations”• Move to Homework• Create a whole text

message novel of Romeo and Juliet

Text Message Principal

“Principal Michael Bregy told all 2,400 students in the building to take out their cell phones and save his personal cell phone number.”

http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=332034

#3 Mobile Novel Project: Cell Phone Bestseller

Popular in Asia to Read Novels Via Cell.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Use a cell phone to write a private or collaborative novel, poem, chapter review, or short story to “publish” on a cell phone.

#3 Mobile Novels

http://textnovel.com

#4 Mobile Photo and Video blogging or Posting

Posting an image, video, or text message to a web blog or private photo place on the web directly from your cell phone.

Flickr Mobile: Post Pics/Videos to Internet

#4 Photoblogging Project: iReporting

Mobile Journalism

High School Students Document Inauguration

Tools: Flickr, Twitter, YouTube

http://wainauguration.org/

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Lab Activities

Mathematics teacher has students document their mathematical steps and lab activities, then put them into a slideshow along with process explanation.

Web link: http://mathematicslearning.blogspot.com/2008/04/mobile-has-changed-my-way.html

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Cell Phones & Facebook to Document Everyday Culture

Psychology teacher in Michigan has students document everyday cultural experiences with cell phone and sends them to class Facebook account.

Web link:

Protected in Facebook

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Send Videos of Homework to Cells

Physical Education Teacher in Australia

Web link:

http://mrobbo.com

#4 PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Australian Environment

9th Grade Geography students in Australia

Web link:

http://australianenvironment.wordpress.com/

#6 Location Mobile BloggingPosting an image, audio file, or text

message to a specific location on a map directly from your cell phone.

#6 Location Mobile Blogging Project: North American Lighthouses

http://flagr.com - free

#5 Survey or Quiz Audio Blast!Send an audio quiz or

survey to multiple cell phones at once.

• Receive instant feedback as they take quiz/survey

• Results all compiled in private account.

• Hey Cosmo: Blaster

Listen to Any Podcast or RSS Feed Via Phone

http://podlinez.com/Get a phone number for

ANY Internet podcast(long distance charges may apply)

Call and Listen to MOMA’s latest galleries

1 (801) 349-3832

#6 Web 2.0 VoicemailA cell phone that couples with a website in

order to create MP3 files of voicemails, transcripts of voicemails, smart greeting for individual or groups of callers, and stores all calling information.

http://google.com/voice

Google Voice in Foreign Language

• http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/CellPhonesintheLanguageClassro/192995

#6 Create Your Own Mobile Scavenger Hunt• http://www.scvngr.com

QRcodes• Bar codes for cell phones. Take a picture of a

bar code and receive information on your phone.

• http://kaywa.com

Geo-Blogging Project: Orienteering

http://kaywa.com

http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/

#2 Avatar Project: Spanish Oral Exams

High School Spanish 2 & 3 Students

Developed an Avatar to take oral exams

Used http://voki.com

Focus: Engagement in oral speaking, oral speaking exams, culture representation with images

Live Video Streaming from Cells• http://qik.com/

http://qik.com/video/2564183

Follow a teacher in his first year of using cell phones

George Engel (HS Math Teacher)• http://www.cellularlearning.org

What Is Social Networking?

Why Social Networking in learning?• Creating Positive Digital Footprints

• 53% of Employers Check Social Networking Sites For Potential Job Candidates

• Showing students “how to set up or clean up profiles”

• Communicate with MOST students• Communicate with SOME parents• Engage students by using a student technology

“toy” and turning it into a learning “tool”!

Microblogging: Twitter

WHAT IS TWITTER?

Micro-Blogging social network where you post messages in 140 characters or less. You can follow or be followed.

Twitter in 1935

Examples of TWITTER in EducationTwitter Stories by Elementary Students

http://twitter.com/manyvoices

High School English Teacher’s Office Hours

http://twitter.com/MrWilsonBDHS

Social Studies: Follow members of Congress

https://valtsvirtual.wikispaces.com/American+Government

English Twitter Assignment: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=22572

Gater Radio on Twitter: http://gatorradio.blogspot.com/

Facebook & MyspaceMost popular social networking sites amongst Teens

Examples of Use

• 11th Grade • English• Facebook• Everyday

Life Connects with Classroom Concepts

Examples of Use

• English 10• Great Gatsby• Facebook • Profiles that

are characters from novel

Examples of Use

• AP English• Facebook• Reading

Response

Examples of Use• Language Arts• Class Homepage• Office Hours

Examples of Use• Western

Civilization• 10th grade• MySpace• Medieval Spaces• Historical Figures

Authors on Facebook

Doctors on Facebook

Study Groups

Discussion Groups

Activism/Fundraising

Support hotlines

Teachers on Facebook

Cardinal Stritch Cohorts Group

Applications on FB for Learning• Polling• Connect with Native Speakers in Languages or

Language Exchange with Other FL Students• Manage Books that students read• Create Flash Cards• Citation help• Organize class work• Learn about Middle Ages with KNighthood• Study group Organization• Math challenge• Conduct online courses• Homework Help Group• Calendars• Record Class Lectures and Post to FB• Make a Quiz

Start a business or support a business• Students can create their own business and

market via Facebook.• Students can team with a local business and

market the local business.

• http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/facebook-for-business-superguide/

Social Networking/Cell Phones/and Video GamesDigital Footprints

Movie: Digital Dossier• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVL

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In Cyberspace…• Don’t assume anything you send or post is

going to remain private. • There is no changing your mind in cyberspace

—anything you send or post will never truly go away.

• Don’t give in to the pressure to do something that makes you uncomfortable, even in cyberspace.

• Consider the recipient’s reaction. • Nothing is truly anonymous.

Your Media is NEVER deleted!Cambridge researchers posted pictures to sixteen websites, noting the

direct URL to the image, and then deleted the original. They reopened the URLs over a period of 30 days to see whether the pictures were accessible and found that images were still visible on five sites at the end of that month. This is possible because the files remain in photo server caches of the underlying content delivery network (CDN) after they have been cleared from indices that provide data for dynamic pages (such as profiles) and search results. The terms of service for these sites indicate that deletion may not be immediate, with Facebook likening the process to putting a file in the Recycle Bin.

http://emergingtechnologies.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=etn&rid=14632

Way Back Machine

Social networks have been used to post content to embarrass or intimidate students, so it is important for learners to understand that the consequences of such actions may last even longer than they expected. Not only may content remain in caches and backups, but it can be copied to third party sites or be captured in archives without your knowledge or permission, such as the Wayback Machine.

53% of Employers Screen job candidates via Social Networks

Looking for a job?Of those hiring managers who have screened job

candidates via social networking profiles, one-third (34 percent) reported they found content that caused them to dismiss the candidate from consideration.

Specific Reasons for NOT hiring based on Digital Footprint found• 40% - candidate posted provocative or

inappropriate photographs or information• 29% - candidate had poor communication skills• 28% - candidate bad-mouthed their previous

company or fellow employee• 22% - candidate’s screen name was

unprofessional

The POSTIVE side of Digital Footprints!On the other hand, social networking profiles

gave some job seekers an edge over the competition.

24% of hiring managers who researched job candidates via social networking sites said they found content that helped to solidify their decision to hire the candidate.

Student or teacher Facebook Post? You Decide…

“"Teaching in DCPS -- Lesson #1: Don't smoke crack while pregnant."

"you're a retard, but i love you.”

"I only have two feelings: hunger and lust. Also, I slept with a hooker. Be jealous. I like to go onto Jdate and get straight guys to agree to sleep with me."

"rocking out with some deaf kids. it. is. AWESOME."

Should Teacher be Fired?

"teaching chitlins in the ghetto of Charlotte”

"I am teaching in the most ghetto school in Charlotte”

Prosecutors Search Social Networking Sites!Prosecutors use Facebook, MySpace photos

Students who made light of drinking received jail sentences for DUIDefense attorneys also use social networking sites to dig up dirt on witnessesPROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was

charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured awoman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a

prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in ablack-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird.”

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:SgDbAA0gzEoJ:freedom-school.com/reading-room/unrepentant-on-facebook-expect-jail-time.pdf+Unrepentent+on+Facebook&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Check the Fine PRINT: Who Owns your work online?

• YouTube • TeacherTube

What Are Your Digital Footprints?• Survey

• Social Networking Sites: Facebook, MySpace• Email• Twitter• Webpages• Snapfish, Kodak, Flickr• YouTube

• Google Yourself

What is YOUR digital footprint?• http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/koppel/in

teractive/interactive.html

Clean Up Social Networking Site1. Take control of your photos. Your personal and professional life are becoming one,

largely due to Facebook. Go through what you have on your social network & untag yourself in photos that an employer might find inappropriate.

2. Set privacy settings. You have less reason to worry if employers can’t access your digital life.

3. Post photos that promote you as a professional. If you have photos from volunteering, studying abroad, working a job, giving a presentation, or any other semi-professional event, post them. They go a long way to help counteract other photos that might negatively impact your image.

4. Put up a clean profile photo of yourself. Even if you got a lot of compliments on your stripper Halloween costume, a profile picture that isn’t associated raucous college partying means a lot to people in hiring positions.

5) Stay active online. By commenting on blogs and forums, updating your profiles, and even creating your own site you can become much more visible and credible online. This gives the people who search you a much more comprehensive picture of who you are and allows you to highlight the good and bury the bad

6. Be mindful of who you accept as a “Friend.” Poor choices could reflect badly on you as a professional. Make sure to monitor their comments on your sites as well.

Other Great Resources• Thebrain.com - Awesome word mapping site• Blabberize.com – make pictures talk• Wordle.net – cool word clouds• Project TILT Website – Incredible resource

including standard-linked technology teaching strategies.

• SlideShare.net – upload all your PowerPoints, Docs, Pdfs, professional videos to share with students/parents/colleagues.