Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons

[Jazzy]

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. -Cell phones, the subject of tugs of war between parents, teachers and students across the nation, are taking on a new role in the classroom: learning tool.

Tech savvy teachers are asking students to use their phones to record foreign language assignments, take photographs for projects and do mini-Internet searches if they have a Web browser.

That's a stark contrast to the emphasis that has been placed on prohibiting their use, often out of fear students will cheat or take inappropriate pictures then passed on to friends.

A majority of teens have a cell phone today, and with many schools unable to afford a computer for every student, teachers are starting to see them as a helpful learning device instead.

Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons

[chonsigirl]

And teachers have been known to use their cell phones during lunch time to bring up the net and look at FG, which is blocked at school...................

[hoppy]

Do they still have chalkboards in schools?

[chonsigirl]

Yes, the math rooms have chalkboards.

I have a white board across one wall, a projector from the ceiling to show stuff off the computer.

But I would never give an assignment that required a net source-not everyone has a computer, internet or cell phones that do those things. If it can't be completed at school in the computer room, then it will finished the old-fashioned way-by hand.

Also, cell phones are confiscated if students use them at my school.

[Rapunzel]

Do they still have chalkboards in schools?

No. We use Interactive White Boards now.

Although we also use plain white boards and marker pens which is basically the same as a blackboard/chalkboard except it's like an inverted negative of it.