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Connecting with Students Through Texting
Willyn Webb
Administrator/teacher
Willyn Webb is a teacher,
administrator, and licensed
professional counselor
in Colorado. She has five
published books, teaches
online classes for educators
using mobile technology, is
a mother of three girls, and
has developed an innovative
alternative high school.
Sometimes, I group text a cue or a question before school to
morning classes and at lunch to afternoon classes. Doing so can
really help students come to class aware of the lesson content
and ready.
Key Lessons
1
Mobile phones are a
terrific tool to support
student engagement and
achievement in reading and
writing.
2
Tools like Celly provide a
code for students to text in
and become part of a group.
3
Putting research-based
teaching practices to use
with time-saving group
texting makes for better
teaching.
Putting research-based teaching practices to use with time-saving group
texting makes for better teaching. All of these activities can be used, regardless of whether mobile phones are used in class or even at school.
Group texting is a great use of mobile technology, even in schools where
mobile phones are still banned.
* Miners, Z. (2009). Could texting be good for students? [Web log post] U.S. News. Retrieved
from www.usnews.com/blogs/on-education/2009/10/29
* Plester, B., Wood, C. (2009). Exploring relationships between traditional and new media
literacies: British preteen texters at school. Retrieved from http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/news.
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