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Please Turn Your Cell Phone ON! Dr. Brian Housand - East Carolina University http://brianhousand.com http://tinyurl.com/nagc-cellphone KWIM, LOL, BRB, IDK: Translating, Using, and Integrating Social Messaging Systems in the Classroom Dr. Tisha Duncan - Meredith College [email protected] 25 Years Ago Motorola's first commercial cell phone cost $3,995 http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/ Nielsen says that 46 percent of the 20 million young consumers known as "tweens" are using mobile phones. On average kids get their first cell phone between the ages of 10 and 11 years old. About 55 percent of tweens, who own cell phones, send text messages and 21 percent download ringtones. Presidential Blackberry Key Opportunities in Mobile Learning 1. Encourage “anywhere, anytime” learning 2. Reach underserved children 3. Improve 21st century social interactions 4. Fit with learning environments 5. Enable a personalized learning experience Goals For Mobile Learning 1. Learn: Understand mobile learning as a unique element of education reform 2. Develop: Build mobile learning interventions 3. Promote: Engage the public and policy-makers in defining the potential of mobile devices for learning 4. Prepare: Train teachers and learners to incorporate mobile technologies 5. Stimulate: Generate new leadership support for digital learning “ The kids these days are not digital kids. The digital kids were in the ’90s. The kids today are mobile, and there’s a difference. Digital is the old way of thinking, mobile is the new way.” Elliott Solloway R U txt savvy? Decode the texting acronyms below: 1.JK 2.DNBL8 3.HRU 4.THX or TX or THKS 5.I12CU NAGC Conference 2009 Digital World Participants Marc Prensky (2001) defines two types of participants: • Digital Natives: born into the world of technology • Digital Immigrants: not born during this era, but have been adopted later in life by using these technologies NAGC Conference 2009 Research • 50% of young adults questioned prefer texting to talking to communicate with their friends (Reid & Reid, 2005) • "85% of teens ages 12-17 years old engage in some form of electronic personal communication" (Lenart, Arafeh, Smith & Macgill, 2008, p. 2) • Texters regard messaging as more intimate and personal, enhancing face-to-face relationships (Plester, Wood, & Joshi, 2009; Reid & Reid, 2005; Thurlow, 2003) NAGC Conference 2009 Short Messaging Services (SMS) • Up to 160 characters • Instant messaging: often used during chats online; service providers are typically AOL, Yahoo!, Google • Texting using phone or other handheld communication device NAGC Conference 2009 Using SMS in the classroom PROS • Teaching the students where they are • Accessibility outside of the 4 walls • Engagement • Creativity • Critical thinking CONS • Opportunity for students to cheat • Inappropriate material being using; termed sexting NAGC Conference 2009 Your Turn… • What experiences, positive and/or negative, have you had with SMS technology in the classroom? • What are some lesson ideas or ways you could possibly incorporate SMS into your classroom? • Is it something you would consider? How would your administration respond? Students? Parents? NAGC Conference 2009 Ideas to Bring Cell Phones Above the Desk What Is It? • www.polleverywhere.com • Live audience polling using text messaging Who Can Use It? • ANY ONE can use this feature • Conference presenters, educators, fund raisers, students, and the list goes on Why Should I Use It? • • • • Cost effective Real time Immediate feedback Engaging your audience with their preferred method of communication (i.e. phone) • Why not? Where Can I Use It? How Do I Use It? 1.Ask a question 2.Audience votes 3.Get live results 4.Generate reports http://www.polleverywhere.com/how-it-works#reports Your turn… • Of these colors listed, which one is your favorite? • RED 73861 • BLUE 73862 • GREEN 73863 Text your coded response to 99503 It’s a Cell Phone, It’s a Camera! • • • • • Note Taker Capture White Board Scanner Novelty Notations Creativity Scavenger Hunt • Photo Blogging http://filmonthefly.ning.com/ http://www.koce.org/filmonthefly/ Text Messaging Lesson Ideas • Translation of new vocabulary words. • Developing plot outlines in text. • Morning message - at the bottom of the easel. Message from teacher then they could potentially complete one on their own. • Quick Write- content is important and focus, not spelling or grammar. Time for them to write in Text speak. • Conversations w/ Literary Characters (e.g. Gatsby and Daisy) • Decoding using phone keypads• Decoding using mathematical equations, the answers are coded messages. • Individual words in a sentence could be in text speak and using context clues must decipher the entire message. Add glossary for this in a center activity. NAGC Conference 2009 Cell Phone Novels Five out of the ten best selling novels in Japan in 2007 were originally cell phone novels. Cell Phones Offer Access Anyway Anyhow Anywhere What Are We Going To Do With This Pervasive Technology? Are Cell Phones the Answer to 1 TO 1 Computing?