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Triumph of the Pod Pupils 2

From the Chicago Tribune:

With the election weeks away, Fremd High School teacher Jason Spoor asked students in his government class, some of them first-time voters, to research local candidates vying for office.

They would have 15 minutes and one learning tool: their cell phone.

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The lesson would have been impossible in the past. But with cell phones tucked in the book bags and pockets of three-fourths of today’s teens, many high schools are ceding defeat in the battle to keep hand-held technology out of class and instead are inviting students to use their phones for learning.

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2 comments

  1. Duffy

    October 12, 2010 at 10:28 am

    We’ve been using 17th century technology to teach digital age kids and we wonder why they’re not learning anything.  They’re bored to tears.  Sadly you need the flash and glare to get their attention.

     
  2. Stacy

    October 12, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    Duffy is right. Teaching has to keep up with the times. I can do more with my smart phone than I ever really dreamed possible. I won’t be going back to a neutered “feature phone”. I can buy a cell phone now that has a better digital camera in it than the stand-alone digital camera I own. My Pre didn’t have video capabilities until Palm sent a software update. Now, it does. With technology moving so fast, and teens and young adults on the cutting edge, teaching must keep up.

     
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