Depending on where you live, cell phones in schools have progressed as follows: A violation of state law Not against the law, but banned from being on campus OK to bring on campus, but must stay in the locker all...
Today’s Associated Press article talks about Lauderdale County (Alabama) and its approach to cell phones. While at the National Middle School Association Conference, I listened to closing speaker Rick Wormeli talk in no uncertain terms of how backwards many school...
The last several posts have centered around the potential positive impacts of cell phone use in the curriculum. Beth Glasgow is a resource teacher for Shelby County (Alabama) Schools and known for innovative uses of technology. She sent me this...
You must read the previous three posts for this one to make any sense, so if you have missed the last several installments of this blog, please take a moment to read those posts and then return to this one....
The August issue of T.H.E. Journal contains statistics on smart phone ownership. Their findings include: Teachers report less ownership of smart phones than both high school and middle school students. (High school was 28%, middle school 24%, and teachers 20%.)...
Dave Sherman responded to my last post and asked my opinion. Rather than try to summarize it in a comment, I am devoting this post to it. As Dave said in his comment, this issue is not going to go...
Mention “cell phone” and “school” in the same sentence while in a room full of principals, and you get the same effect as fingernails on a chalkboard. The harder we try to devise ways to keep cell phones out of...