My daughter has an iPhone. (Yes, she has a wonderful mother who provides it.) With all the attention cell phones receive in school good and bad, I have a good story to tell. Her health occuptations class was doing internet research and didn't have enough computers for everyone. She told her teacher she would be happy to use her iPhone to do the same research. The teacher let her and another student then offered also. The teacher agreed and it allowed everyone to do the same activity at the same time.
We may not always want to allow cell phones to be used in our classrooms but like her teacher we need to remain open minded. If it is a planned activity or an imprompt situtation we must remember to use the free tools that are available to us and that they students use so freely and effectively. (PS--this same child yelled at her mother to turn her phone and type with both thumbs and stop peeking with one finger.)
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Three cheers for iPhones! What was life like before those little suckers? I don't even remember...
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