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Learning Activities for Grades 6-12 Using Student Cell Phones
Liz Kolb, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
elikeren@umich.edu
http://cellphonesinlearning.com
Twitter: lkolb
Presentation Link: tiny.cc/kolbmac11
Mobile Tutorials/Lessons: http://www.filedropper.com/mobiletutorials (30 days)
Liz’s Mobile Business Card
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http://contxts.com

Are you using cell phones with your students?
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/MTE5OTg5ODg2Nw

Agenda
8:30-9:00 Increase Participation and Communication
Historical Inquiry…(Wiffiti) (Social Studies)
9:00-10:10 Extended Learning Beyond School Day
This I Believe…Podcast (ipadio) (English)
Picture/Video on the Fly (Txtblaster & Zannel) (Science)
10:10-10:30 Access and Bridge Digital Divide
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:05 Improving on Traditional Learning
Create Your Own QRcodes (Kaywa) (all subjects)
11:05-11:40Authenticity: Connecting to Real World
Everyday Math (Tumblr) (Math)
11:40-12:00 Improving on Oral Language Activities
Oral Quizzes (Google Voice) (World Languages)
12:00 Mobile Jobs and Citizenship

What you can do on your cell phone in 2011
Use it as a credit or debit card
Identify people (facial recognition)
Use it as personal identification
Take and simultaneously post live video to the Internet or another phone
Purchase or sell stocks
Vote
Diagnosis 340 different diseases
Oh…and make a phone call

Knox County (TN) School Relaxing Policy
http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2010/10/know-county-schools-relaxing-policy-on.html
Proposed Policy
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/10news_at_five/article/137142/173/Knox-County-Schools-to-consider-new-cell-phone-policy
iPod Contract
http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=79142&

Part 1
WhyStudent Cell Phones?

1:1 Programs have BIG impact on achievement when properly implemented
Schools with one-to-one computing programs have
fewer discipline problems
lower dropout rates (related to social media use)
higher rates of college attendance than schools with a higher ratio of students to computers
Better home to school communication
85% of 1:1 schools in the study reported that their students’ achievement scores on high-stakes tests were on the rise. All of these schools employed certain strategies for success
electronic formative assessments on a regular basis
frequent collaboration of teachers in professional learning communities.
Employ the use of social media and social networks
http://projectred.org/news/?p=79

Speak up 2010 Report 100,000+ students
For the first time since 2003, when asked to identify the major obstacle to prevent use of technology in school, students in grades 6–12 said “I cannot use my own cell phone, smart phone or Mp3 player in school.”

Increase Participation & Communication

http://wiffiti.com

6 Word Memoirs
http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/ODg2ODQwNDYw

Extending Learning Beyond the School Day
Homework, Snow Days, Breaks, and Field Trips

Homework: Poem in Your Pocket
http://emsdigitalpoetry.wikispaces.com/Poem+in+Your+Pocket+Day
Middle School English
Poetry Via Phone
http://google.com/voice

EXAMPLE: 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

Mobile Podcasting Project: Author Study
Middle School 6th-7th Grade
Used: http://hipcast.com
Web link:
http://541sparkes.blogspot.com/2007/07/author-blog-6.html

iPadio: Phonecasting
http://ipadio.com
Create personal podcasts (public or private)
Attach to any blog
RSS feeds
No time limit
Free!

Lesson 1: PodcastActivity: NPR “This I Believe…”
10th Grade English
Wrote their own This I Believe
Recorded for HW via Cell Phone
Submitted BEST to NPR
Focus: Speaking Skills, Persuasive Writing Skills, Editing Skills

This I Believe Podcasting Project…
Find a Partner (groups of 2 or 3)
Set up an iPadio account http://ipadio.com
Add one of your phones to the account
Create a 1 minute “This I Believe…” Podcast
Podcast should begin & end with “This I believe…”
Topic of your choice
Can be humorous, sad, inquisitive
Sample NPR This I Believe
Call in to your iPadio #
Record your podcast
Download your podcast to http://kolbmacul.wikispaces.com

Alerts Project: Film on the Fly
http://www.koce.org/filmonthefly
http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

Text Message Alerts!
Sending out mass text messages to large or small groups of people.
http://txtblaster.com

Lesson 2: Picture/Video on the Fly!
http://txtblaster.com
http://zannel.com
Send in picture with #@location

Picture/Video on the Fly
Step 1: Set up a text alert in http://txtblaster.com , ask students to join the keyword alert
Step 2: Create an account in http://zannel.com
Step 3: You will be given an email address where you can send pictures and/or videos from your cell phone directly into Zannel.
Step 4: Wait for the text assignment
Step 5: Take a picture or video of the phenomena, send a text message of what you believe the phenomena to be (take a guess if needed). Send it to our Zannel account (with #@location)
Step 6: Login to Zannel.com
Step 7: Click on image to see it on the map

Summer Text Program
Norwich Free Academy (Connecticut)
Text of the week!
Monday is vocabulary day
Tuesday is science facts
Wednesday is mathematics
Thursday is history
Friday covers a variety of topics including general knowledge and cultural literacy
Each day is a theme
Parents and Students Opt in

Mobile Surveys and Quizzes
http://mobiode.com/
Create surveys and quizzes online and send to phones via text message (cost) or mobile Internet
Take Liz’s Survey
http://techtools.mobiode.mobi

Access/Bridge Digital Divide

Internet v. Mobile
73% of U.S. household’s have Internet access
57% have broadband
43% have dial-up
30% of U.S. citizens do not use the Internet at all
63% of people with a household income of <49K have no Internet
87% of U.S. Citizens own Cell phones.
13% of U.S. citizens do not own a cell phone
94% of U.S. Citizens 18-45 own a cell phone
18% of U.S. Citizens with an income of <50K do not have a cell phone
Park Associates and CTIA wireless association, both 2007

50% of will be Smartphone
Users by end of 2011

How Many Text Messages Per Month do 13-17 year old’s send?
http://polleverywhere.com

13 to 17 year olds send average of 3,146 messages a month

Create a mobile class website
http://zinadoo.com

Improving on Traditional Learning

Research on cell phones in learning says…
"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

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
Using Texting to Teach Shakespare

Use a cell phone to write a private or collaborative novel, poem, chapter review, or short story to “publish” on a cell phone.
Mobile Novels
http://textnovel.com

Autistic Children in Akron OH
Use pictures for parents/children to communicate
Social stigma associated with this
Parents & teachers now use cell phones to take pictures and show pictures to children (to communicate w/out social stigma)

Using Qrcodes in high school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayW032sKtj8

http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/

Qrcode 2nd grade trip to zoo

Lesson 3: Build Your Own QRcodes
Bar codes for cell phones, iPods. Take a picture of a bar code and receive information on your phone.
Need to download a free reader on your phone or ipod
http://kaywa.com
http://www.qrstuff.com/
http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/
http://keremerkan.net/qr-code-and-2d-code-generator/
Mobile Tag in iTunes

Authenticity: Connecting “Real World” to School Learning

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
Send text Query to 36266

Google Calendar
Text Events to Google Calendar
Send to 48368
Text Alerts from Google Calendar
Under Google Cal—Settings--Mobile Set Up
Google Mobile App

Conference Recording
http://Freeconferencepro.com
Record up to 250 people on one phone call at one time.
Bring in experts!
Record group discussions for HW
Record Open House
Hold a 19th Century Salon

iReporting

Mobile Blogging

Mobile Blogging
Tumblr
http://www.tumblr.com/
Phone call, picture, text or video post directly to blog
Goodies
TumblriPod App too!

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

Connecting Math to Everyday Experiences
http://bigmacmath.wikispaces.com/cellblock

Lesson 4: Everyday Math with Tumblr
Create a Tumblr account http://tumblr.com
Click on GOODIES to get email address and add your phone number.
Add email address as a new contact in your phone
Add phone number as a new contact in your phone
Take a picture of something in real life that is parallel or perpendicular, add some text identify which one in subject.
Call in to Tumblr number to explain why you think it is parallel or perpendicular
Post your Tumblr Link on http://kolbmacul.wikispaces.com/tumblr

Improving on Oral Language Activities

Katie Titler
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/mobile/spanish-class-learns-with-todays-technology

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

Web 2.0 Voicemail
A 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
(734) 408-4495

Google Voice in World Language
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/CellPhonesintheLanguageClassro/192995

Oral Quiz with Google Voice
Call in to Liz’s Google Voice Number
Take the quiz!

Audioboo on iPod for Podcasting or Oral Recording
http://audioboo.fm/

Mobile Jobs and Citizenship

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

Mobile Job Opportunities for Students

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.
http://www.visiblevote.us

Summary of 16 teachers using student cell phones
11 Teachers from across the U.S. who are using student cell phones

Dealing with school Bans of Cell Phones?
Each teacher’s school district had differing policies governing cell phones, some completely banned them, whereas others simply had restrictions on how and when they were allowed to be used during the school day.
Every teacher was able to find a way to work within the school policy to include cell phones in their teaching. Most teachers who wanted to use the cell phones during the school day were able to approach the administration and figure out an appropriate management system so that they could use the student school phones.
Middle school reading teacher Tim Chase set up a management system (approved by his administration) that when students were using their cell phones to take pictures for their class project during the school day, they wore “assignment" badges.”

Discipline Issues?
All but one of the teachers claimed that they did not have any discipline problems when using the student cell phones.
Many of the teachers said that using the cell phones for learning actually cut down on discipline problems in school related to cell phone use.

Engagement?
Just about every teacher reported that motivation and engagement in the class activities increased when they were using the cell phones.
Katie Titler, a Spanish teacher in Wisconsin, found that many of her students went from being worried or disengaged in oral language activities to excited about oral language as a result of using their cell phones to record oral quizzes.
Allison Riccardi, a Spanish teacher from Michigan, found that she, “was amazed at how having them text sentences in Spanish really drew them not only into the activity, but also really helped them to understand the grammar behind what they were saying.”
Interview with Katie Titler

Students without cell phones?
There were a couple of teachers who did worried about doing cell phone based activities when not every student owned a cell phone. However they all found that, in the end, there were plenty of ways to manage the issue.
The most popular work-around was for teachers to group or pair students up so that there was one cell phone per group. In some cases, teachers simply selected a project where the students had an alternative to the cell phone.
Jimbo Lamb, a math teacher from Pennsylvania, used a resource to record audio files with a toll-free calling number so that his math students could call-in with their cell phones or a landline.
Interview with Jimbo Lamb

Parents?
None of the teachers reported problems with parents being upset that their children were using their cell phones for learning. As a matter of fact, some of the teachers received thank you notes from appreciative parents who were thrilled that their children were learning how to use their cell phones appropriately and in an educative way.
Paul Wood, technology coordinator in Texas claimed, “I received no negative comments and four positive comments as well as some thank you's.”
Interview with Paul Wood

Improved learning?
In some cases, teachers mentioned that they were surprised how quickly the students began to get actively involved in the lesson planning process, and not just being passive students regurgitating information. These teachers found that once they allowed their students to use cell phones in instruction, the students began to suggest learning activities that they could do with their cell phones.
Judy Pederson, an English teacher in California, said “At first, being able to use their cell phones was instantly ‘cool,’ and grabbed students' attention. After a while, it became a very convenient tool and students began generating their own ideas for how to use the phones for projects.”
Interview with Judy Pederson

Using Cell Phones for Student Management or Communication?
Many of the teachers also set up office hours via cell phone (some via Twitter), where their students could text message or call them during designated evening hours.
Larry Liu, an English teacher from Michigan, expanded his cell phone Facebook activity so that he was able to use Facebook to communicate homework help and answer questions from his students.
He found that since most of his students already were on Facebook and their cell phones most often, it was easier to communicate with them via their favorite devices rather than more traditional methods such as landlines or even email.
Interview with Larry Liu

The Future of Mobile

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Text messages to replace stamps in Sweden
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DailyTech - Sony "PlayStation Phone" is Now Official
Google Exploring Possible Payment System For Phones
Taking Pulse and Blood Pressure With an iPhone - NYTimes.com
New software brings facial-recognition technology to mobile phones (The University of Manchester)

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