Workshop on smartphone use and abuse in the classroom.

1. Smartphone/Dumbphone
April 12, 2019

3. And yet?
Presto! Smartphones, meet dumb people.

5. https://create.kahoot.it/details/smartphone-
dumbphone/2e790d28-003a-420f-b865-
4a697fda2230
www.mentimeter.com
www.gimkit.com
www.flipgrid.com
https://www.educationalappstore.com/app-
lists/apps-for-education
https://www.teachthought.com/technology/the
-50-best-smartphone-apps-for-teachers-
arranged-by-category/

6. The
Norway
Hotel

7. https://docs.google.com/document/
d/1H-
vfigxHPTToFCld3YAr52MMjUqcjZ
MQu450mal1wvY/edit

8. Active Listening
for Student Presentations
What’s the point?
Theme?
Topic?
List four major facts,
ideas
What’s a question rolling
around in your head?
What’s the key point you
learned, “ah-ha” moment?

10. Topics for TSC practice:
The Famous 5
Alzheimer's disease
The Enabling Act
E=MC2
section 15 of the Charter
Fermi’s paradox
Elon Musk
Grease

11. Big 6 topics
Titanic: The Causes of World War One (The Great War) use the Smartboard
1. Use the Big Sheet and your iphones to google the Big 6 applied to the Titanic (30
minutes)
2. Discuss, chart, note responses
3. The Titanic drawing as metaphor for WW1 (why Europe?)
4. Watch various videos of the ship’s demise

12. History 12
The Ethical Dimension:
The Atomic Bombs and the decision to drop them.
Why did the American drops atomic bombs on Japan in
August of 1945?
What have the long term impacts of the bombs been?

13. Using google drive on your
Smartphone to build research
projects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Ew_bMAHt8Ag
Using google drive on your tablet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
4fulb7iumFo
Using iMovie to make videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
a7sjT_BySf8

14. https://www.teachthought.com/technology/36
-smart-ideas-for-using-smartphones-in-the-
classroom/
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-
projects/project-ideas/science-with-your-
smartphone
https://www.goconqr.com/en/examtime/blog/
40-uses-for-smartphones-in-school/
https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/100-
chrome-apps-and-extensions/

15. Your time to shine.
Start on a project for your classroom to
use Monday morning.
Share at 2:15pm.