Cell Phones Use

The more research I have done on this topic the more I have become open-minded about it. I am still not fully persuaded for my own classroom but I will think about it. I have read lots of good things about using cell phones in a classroom but as always the bad equals it out. Many articles still call it a distraction in school. I will try to stay open-minded on this issue and maybe one day I will also use cell phones in a classroom. As of right now, I am still not completely sold.

Cell Phones

I'm still iffy on the cell phone use. In one article I found, a school tested it with 8th and 9th graders. It seemed to work well for them because they allowed the cell phones and stressed the importance of what is appropriate. For this school, it worked very well by using video recordings of group activities and then sending it to the teacher for her to review. This sounds like a cool idea but I don't think it would be so easy and work well with elementary school children. I'm slowly buying into the idea but not quite yet.