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]

Originally Posted by hoppy

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.