I can’t help but wonder if we are spending too much time designing lesson around computers. The truth is that many more of our students have and use cell phones than computers. Perhaps we should begin thinking about how we can design lessons around student's cell phones. One quick, simple, and easy way to create a cell phone assignment is with Polleverywhere.com. It allows a teacher to create and take a quick poll of students using their cell phones. For example, a government teacher could give a homework assignment to watch the President give an address before Congress then have the students send a text to poll everywhere whether they liked the President response or not. The next day in class the class could look at their poll compare it to other opinion polls or use the poll as a discussion starter. The service is free for up to 30 students. This idea may not be the ultimate cell phone assignment, but it might be a start.
What do you think?
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I like that idea, especially after last night's televised address by Obama. That would have been a great assignment. It also could have begun discusions today about some of his main points and got the students really thinking about the economy and our recession, they may have had ideas from their standpoint that no one has thought of yet.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea that they are doing this outside of school and not inside. I truly believe that cellphones should not be used in the building. The problem is, even though it is a popular tool, not every student has one (just seems that way), so how do you handle the assignment for those students?
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