Cell+Phones

**Overview**
Many people associate cell phones with phone calls and social text messaging. However, an incredible amount of advantages come from using cell phones in the educational process. Smart phones are actually small computers. If students don't know something they can simply look it up. Cell phone cameras also allow teachers to effectively reach students who are visual learners. Asynchronous mobile learning will increase as more and more students have access to cell phones. Within the next ten years cell phones have the potential to completely revolutionize K-12 education.

**Uses of Cell Phones Education**
[|8 Ways to use Camera Phones in Education from Edutechie.com]

The past couple of years have seen an explosion of cell phones. It seems like almost everyone has one, and more and more younger kids are getting them as well. Most schools ban them, but some are starting to see the potential. The average phone now a days has more computing power than many of the computers of 10 years ago. So… how can we harness that power in education? Let’s start with the camera phone since there are no additional fees associated with its use.

Here’s a list of 8 things you can use a camera phone for in the classroom, in no particular order.

1. **Whiteboard/Blackboard Archive** Do you ever get done with a class and look at the board with regret because you have to erase everything you or your class just created? Snap a quick picture and archive that for future use. You could even post them on a class discussion board, wiki, blog, webpage or even just e-mail them to your class for review.

To quote from the article linked above:
 * 2. Handheld Scanner**

//"Remember those old spy movies, where the secret agents captured documents with a tiny secret mini-camera? Now we all have one. Believe it or not, photographing documents works.

I don’t recommend stealing information, but for random paper information, notes … you can snap a picture to capture the data."//

Sometimes you see something that jogs your memory. Take a picture of that thing as a reminder of what you need to do.
 * 3. Reminder List**

One of the biggest struggles for some teachers is learning the names and faces of the constant rotation of students coming through their classes. Take some time at the beginning of the year to photograph the students, or even better yet, have them take pictures of each other and e-mail to you if they have that capability.
 * 4. Learn Student’s Names and Faces**

Sometimes you may need to take a picture of something happening, or something that happened to protect yourself and your students.
 * 5. Security/Liability Device**

Depending on the subject you teach, it may be appropriate to send the students out one day to take pictures of nature, people or other things. Try to think of ways to use the phone. Just using the phone in an assignment will help students be more excited about it. Remember, there’s nothing wrong with using technology as a motivator.
 * 6. Assignments**

If you are a blogger or have a class blog/website you can set up an e-mail address that you can post directly to that blog. You can give that address out to students or use it yourself.
 * 7. Instant Blogging**

Take some pictures throughout the year and print them out at the end of the year for a scrapbook or collage.
 * 8. Memories**

**Specific Program Links**

 * [|Mobile Learning on a VLE|] - how 4 colleges in the UK are designing learning material so that students can view it on their own mobile devices (a mixture of mobile phones, PSPs, PDAs, iPods and other MP3 players)

**Blog Resources**

 * [|M-Learning] by Claudia Ceraso (//ELT Notes, December 2006)//

**Other Web Links**

 * [|Frengo] - a "social play network" offering members an interface for building SMS/MMS games and messaging services
 * [|PollEverywhere.com] - setup polls to be answered via the web and/or text messaging; free use for polls with < 30 responses; great tool for formative assessment and a cheaper alternative to student response systems.
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**Article Links**
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 * [|Enabling Mobile Learning 2005] - an educause paper on mLearning (pdf)
 * [|M4E Virtual Appliance] SMS Wireless Test Administration server for K12 - [|http://www.rtestedu.com]
 * Report provides information on iPhone education applications
 * New application brings online research service to the iPhone
 *  New product uses iPhone technology for math, reading lessons
 *  Smart phones are being used to help math students

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 * [|Liz Kolb's K12 Video Presentation on Cell Phones in Learning] -includes podcasting, photoblogging, video blogging resources and much more.
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