Podcast - Cell Phones: Out of the Pocket and Into the Classroom

2010-04-29 Seedlings Chat with Lisa Nielsen and Willyn Webb

Bob Sprankle and Cheryl Oakes are joined by two advocates for educators and students using the tools they already own!

• Willyn Webb: Author, Counselor at Alternative HS having success with cells in a district where it's banned
• Lisa Nielsen: Creator of The Innovative Educator Blog, Tech Innovation Manager in NYC, empowering educators to harness the power of the tools in their pockets

Topics discuss include:

• Combating the digital divide with cells
• How I (Lisa) got in trouble for helping teachers harness the power of cells
  
• Making a case for cells to schools that ban them
• How to use cells even in schools where they are banned
• Strategies educators can use to begin harnessing the power of cell phones in classrooms today
• Supporting research-based strategies with cell phones
• How to keep the conversation going

To listen to the show and read the show notes and chat click the links below:

• Show notes
• Chat
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• Download audio here.
  

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Podcast on Harnessing the Power of Cells - Thursday, April 29

Tonight Willyn Webb and I will be on EdTechTalk discussing how you can use cell phones to enrich teaching and learning even in schools that ban them on Thursday, April 28th. This is a subject that I have gotten in trouble for, discussed on my blog and about which I am writing a book

Readers who are interested in Harnessing the power of cell phones to engage learners and enrich teaching should plan to tune in.

Here's what we'll be discussing:

• Combating the digital divide with cells
• How I got in trouble for helping teachers harness the power of cells
  
• Making a case for cells to schools that ban them
• Ideas for using cells even in schools where they are banned
• Strategies educators can use to begin harnessing the power of cell phones in classrooms today
• Supporting research-based strategies with cell phones
• How to keep the conversation going

I hope you'll join us live at 7:30 pm eastern standard time. Log on to http://edtechtalk.com/live 15 minutes prior to ensure you are able to log on. We look forward to connecting soon.

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Aren't Schools Supposed to Help Students Change the World?

Last week I taught a class to teachers who, like many of those I work with, accept that not only students are banned at school from using powerful online tools like Facebook, Twitter, etc., but that they, the teachers, are also not allowed to harness the power of these tools.

What message are we sending to teachers and the students who we are teaching when we tell them, not only will we not teach you to use these powerful tools that are critical for success in the 21st century, but we will not let you use them as part of your educational experience?

Teachers do need to stand up and speak up, but if they don't, fortunately there's student's like the 18 year old New Jersey Student Who Uses Facebook to Organize Massive High School Walkout to protest recent education cuts through a call to action on Facebook.

While I applaud this student for leading the way, it's a shame that schools have to get out of her way as she does so.

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