ONE TEACHER’S EVALUATIONS OF WHAT WORKS IN AN INNER-CITY LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM


Cell Phone Usage in Schools

I have been trying to figure out ways to make my students’ cell phone ownership/obsession work for my classroom, especially with so many excellent resources for mobile phones popping up every day.

Here is a blog post from Drape’s Takes (another of my favorite resources) where a discussion is forming around the issue of “to ban or not to ban.” Drape essentially asks, “Are we not capable, as teachers, of controlling and monitoring cell phone use without resorting to outlawing it?”

Here’s a video of one teacher who just couldn’t take it anymore.