All Discussions Tagged 'phones' - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T20:05:34Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=phones&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhat makes you smarter that your smart phone?tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-03-05:649749:Topic:9164282013-03-05T11:33:38.937Zlou leonardshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/louleonards
<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>It is said that we live in a world where we have smart phones and dumb people. What are the things that makes you smarter that your smart phone? How do you use your smart phone for managing your life as a teacher? What apps would you reccomend to help teachers maximize their gadgets for school?</p>
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<p>Thanks in advance and more power (^^,)</p>
<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>It is said that we live in a world where we have smart phones and dumb people. What are the things that makes you smarter that your smart phone? How do you use your smart phone for managing your life as a teacher? What apps would you reccomend to help teachers maximize their gadgets for school?</p>
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<p>Thanks in advance and more power (^^,)</p> Using cells phones and tablets in schooltag:www.classroom20.com,2011-11-18:649749:Topic:7760412011-11-18T04:33:11.174ZMatt Hoenshellhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MattHoenshell
<p>Our school is implementing a mobile 1-1 model. Each of the students in our pilot is getting either a cell phone or a tablet that will have access to our wireless network within school and 3G service outside of school. We are interested if anyone else has tried this concept, how it is working and what are someways that you are using these devices?</p>
<p>Our school is implementing a mobile 1-1 model. Each of the students in our pilot is getting either a cell phone or a tablet that will have access to our wireless network within school and 3G service outside of school. We are interested if anyone else has tried this concept, how it is working and what are someways that you are using these devices?</p> The Power of Mobile Technologytag:www.classroom20.com,2011-06-16:649749:Topic:6547062011-06-16T18:07:05.990ZJoe Fathereehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/JoeFatheree
<p>My students have really been pushing the power of mobile technology for the past few years. I continue to be amazed at both the evolution of the technology and how quickly the students find new ways to use it. It cost me between $10,000 and $12,000 in 2000 to purchase one Media 100 editing station and a Canon XL1 for our classroom. The following film was shot this past spring on an ipod touch that belonged to one of the student filmmakers: …</p>
<p>My students have really been pushing the power of mobile technology for the past few years. I continue to be amazed at both the evolution of the technology and how quickly the students find new ways to use it. It cost me between $10,000 and $12,000 in 2000 to purchase one Media 100 editing station and a Canon XL1 for our classroom. The following film was shot this past spring on an ipod touch that belonged to one of the student filmmakers: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/jfatheree/videos/70/">Bad Luck</a></p>
<p>He shot and edited the entire film on the ipod. The editing program cost approximately $1. The cost to the school....$0. </p>
<p>The students in my class produce a lot of high quality films during the course of the year. As of now, there will continue to be a need for high cameras and editing stations. However, the time may be quickly approaching that we need to not only rethink how we purchase and what we allow students to bring to school. As for my students, they feel more comfortable working with their phone or ipod than they do a $5,000 camera. The cameras on the mobile devices continue to improve with each new generation. I look forward to this coming year to see what the class of 2012 can do. </p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>-joe </p> cell phones for instructiontag:www.classroom20.com,2011-01-20:649749:Topic:5846342011-01-20T15:59:55.375ZGary Blairhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GaryBlair
<p>We are utilzing cell phones in classrooms and are finding that these are wonderful instructional tools.</p>
<p>I am VERY interested in sites and other resources for increasing the use of cell phones for classroom instruction. I truly appreciate any information.</p>
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<p>We are utilzing cell phones in classrooms and are finding that these are wonderful instructional tools.</p>
<p>I am VERY interested in sites and other resources for increasing the use of cell phones for classroom instruction. I truly appreciate any information.</p>
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I'm looking for information on incorporating cell phones into my high school classes. Im very interested in using them as poll-taking devices, but am open to any other uses that you all may be doing. Can anyone make suggestions. Thanks.
I'm looking for information on incorporating cell phones into my high school classes. Im very interested in using them as poll-taking devices, but am open to any other uses that you all may be doing. Can anyone make suggestions. Thanks. Is Your School ready for Mobile Web 2.0?tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-11-08:649749:Topic:4024132009-11-08T12:14:53.941ZBempahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Bempa
Mobile Web 2.0 in Your School?<br />
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The need for a free and operator independent Universal Mobile School platform that makes it easy to communicate on all types of mobile phones is huge!<br />
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"Just like any parent I'm struggling to make the logistics work. With a full time job, three kids, a wife and really tight schedules it can be pretty hard to keep up, but Squace makes everything a little easier", says, Thomas Westerlund Düner from the Stockholm suburb Bromma and father of 3.<br />
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The mobile phone will…
Mobile Web 2.0 in Your School?<br />
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The need for a free and operator independent Universal Mobile School platform that makes it easy to communicate on all types of mobile phones is huge!<br />
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"Just like any parent I'm struggling to make the logistics work. With a full time job, three kids, a wife and really tight schedules it can be pretty hard to keep up, but Squace makes everything a little easier", says, Thomas Westerlund Düner from the Stockholm suburb Bromma and father of 3.<br />
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The mobile phone will be the essential communication tool from day care centers, preschools and onward through all the school years. The anytime, everywhere and allways on capability and the deep penetation of web ready mobile phones among all social classes makes it the obvius choice (there is aprox about fore times as many web ready cell phones as there is connected pc´s out there on the globe...).<br />
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"The School In the Mobile" is a large scale mobile web project rolling out a new universal mobile school platform in Stockholm, Sweden.<br />
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The aim is to make school information easy to access over the mobile web in all types of web ready cell phones (from basic feature phones to high end snart phones) and doing so nurging and enhancing the everyday use of the mobile as a school-com-tool!<br />
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it´s amazing how easy this non-sms-concept is!<br />
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Find out more about the project:<br />
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<a href="http://blog.squace.com/?p=97">http://blog.squace.com/?p=97</a><br />
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<a href="http://hosted.squace.com/public_resources/Squace-School-in-Mobile-Case01.pdf">http://hosted.squace.com/public_resources/Squace-School-in-Mobile-Case01.pdf</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.inthemobile.com/2009/08/presence-routines-and-technology-discrepancy-%E2%80%93-information-exchange-between-parents-and-preschool-teachers/">http://www.inthemobile.com/2009/08/presence-routines-and-technology-discrepancy-%E2%80%93-information-exchange-between-parents-and-preschool-teachers/</a><br />
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Contact information about the project:<br />
Stina Nylander<br />
Swedish Institute of Computer Science<br />
phone:+46 8 633 15 69<br />
mobile: +46 70 353 03 69<br />
e-mail: stny@sics.se<br />
www<br />
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Aage Reerslev<br />
Aage Reerslev, CEO<br />
Squace AB<br />
Mobile: +46 70 698 17 51<br />
Döbelnsgatan 48<br />
113 52 Stockholm<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/Aage_Reerslev">http://twitter.com/Aage_Reerslev</a><br />
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/reerslev">http://www.linkedin.com/in/reerslev</a><br />
<a href="http://www.squace.com">www.squace.com</a><br />
aage.reerslev@squace.com<br />
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Academic Publications about mobile in education and the project "School in the Mobile":<br />
(please contact Stina Nylander, stny@sics.se, to get publications mentioned below)<br />
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Stina Nylander & Bo Karlson. Gathering design requirements for a microcommunity - the case of preschool parents and teachers. SICS Technical Report 2009:05.<br />
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Stina Nylander. Presence, Routines, and Technology Discrepancy - Information Exchange between Parents and Preschool Teachers. Full paper accepted to Interact 2009.<br />
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Stina Nylander, Terés Lundquist, Andreas Brännström, Bo Karlson. "It's just easier with the phone" - a diary study of Internet access from cell phones. Full paper, Pervasive 2009.<br />
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Stina Nylander, Terés Lundquist, Andreas Brännström. At Home and with Computer Access - Why and Where People Use Cell Phones to Access the Internet. Technical note, CHI 2009.<br />
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Stina Nylander. Strategies for exchanging information in Preschool. SICS Technical Report 2008:15.<br />
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Stina Nylander. Where Would You Bring Your Laptop? - Live Blogging in an Outdoors Mechanical Shop. Accepted to the industrial track of the 7th International ACM Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia.<br />
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Terés Lundquist. Context Influence on Cell Phone Web Usage. Magisteruppsats vid institutionen för systemteknik, ref.nr 1222854593. Luleå Tekniska Universitet.<br />
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Stina Nylander. Presence as a Foundation for Information Exchange between Parents and Pre-School Teachers. Poster to Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2008. Students' tools (cell phones, iPods, IM etc) for classroom learning?tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-10-26:649749:Topic:3968002009-10-26T02:59:10.990ZLisa Schwartzhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/LisaSchwartz
I am working on a project that involves teachers partnering with students to figure out how to use new technologies, including the ones students bring to school, for classroom learning. If you have any thoughts or ideas for us, this would be greatly appreciated...I put some questions below. I am a grad student doing research with these classrooms, so I attached a disclosure statement here that explains that I may use your answers for my research but I will <b><i>not</i></b> collect your name.…
I am working on a project that involves teachers partnering with students to figure out how to use new technologies, including the ones students bring to school, for classroom learning. If you have any thoughts or ideas for us, this would be greatly appreciated...I put some questions below. I am a grad student doing research with these classrooms, so I attached a disclosure statement here that explains that I may use your answers for my research but I will <b><i>not</i></b> collect your name. <b>Thanks for joining the conversation! The questions below are prompts for what we are interesting in learning about:<br />
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<li>Do you think students' tools and practices (e.g. cell phones, chat tools, w/social networks etc) can and should be incorporated into the classroom?</li>
<li>What do you see as the challenges and benefits to youth using these tools and practices in the classroom?</li>
<li>In what ways do you incorporate students' digital tools and practices (e.g. cell phones, chat tools, social networks etc) for classroom learning?</li>
<li>What kind of rules do you use? Do you create the rules?</li>
<li>How do you or can you enlist youth into helping teachers figure out how to use new digital technologies for learning?</li>
<li>What might you be interested in trying?</li>
</ul> Having students create video lab reports from cell phones and running into problemstag:www.classroom20.com,2009-10-15:649749:Topic:3927362009-10-15T16:59:01.703ZMark Parsonshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MarkParsons
I have been having my students conduct and inquiry lab to get them familiar with "thinking like a scientist." I decided to have them create a video lab report as opposed to a traditional lab report. My thought was that we could easily share their experiments with the world as a video rather than a doc file. I also thought that they could use the technology in their pockets (phones, etc.) to create something meaningful.<br />
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Our school has PC lap tops that the students can use so I assumed that they…
I have been having my students conduct and inquiry lab to get them familiar with "thinking like a scientist." I decided to have them create a video lab report as opposed to a traditional lab report. My thought was that we could easily share their experiments with the world as a video rather than a doc file. I also thought that they could use the technology in their pockets (phones, etc.) to create something meaningful.<br />
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Our school has PC lap tops that the students can use so I assumed that they would use WMM to create the finished products. The problem I've been having is that their cameras transmit the video in .mov format which WMM does not read. I tried to download a converter that works when I am logged in as the administrator, but not when the students are logged in. Does anyone have a good converter they suggest or an easier way to use cell phone video? Too Much Texttag:www.classroom20.com,2009-05-27:649749:Topic:3462672009-05-27T19:02:55.265ZAndrew Marcinekhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/AndrewMarcinek
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mfJmeZx_Pk4/Sh2AJsqJGlI/AAAAAAAAALU/kAvsLhLk2-M/s1600-h/mbcn326l.jpg.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340565637226371666" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340565637226371666" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mfJmeZx_Pk4/Sh2AJsqJGlI/AAAAAAAAALU/kAvsLhLk2-M/s320/mbcn326l.jpg.jpeg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;"></img></a><p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday the New York Times released a piece titled, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html?em">“Texting May Be Taking a Toll”</a> written by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/katie_hafner/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Katie Hafner</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I…</p>
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mfJmeZx_Pk4/Sh2AJsqJGlI/AAAAAAAAALU/kAvsLhLk2-M/s1600-h/mbcn326l.jpg.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mfJmeZx_Pk4/Sh2AJsqJGlI/AAAAAAAAALU/kAvsLhLk2-M/s320/mbcn326l.jpg.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340565637226371666" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340565637226371666"/></a><p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday the New York Times released a piece titled, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html?em">“Texting May Be Taking a Toll”</a> written by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/katie_hafner/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Katie Hafner</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I pondered the title and noticed it was the New York Times’ most e-mailed story. Then I wondered, a toll on what? Is there some new texting tax?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those were my initial questions. I read on and was blown away by some of the findings. In one case, a thirteen-year-old girl sent 14,528 text messages a month…A MONTH! Her story was featured in a California newspaper and her message frequency shot up to 24,000 due to her new fame. Ms. Harper also covered issues with the toll texting can take on ones’ thumbs, anxiety and how it effects the classroom. Still in shock I read on and by the end of the article was troubled.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is texting an addiction? Should the FDA get involved? What is the gateway drug for texting? Letter writing?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As someone who runs a blog designed to evoke collaboration and rapid communication, I find it troubling that there is text abuse happening. I try and promote the idea of good social networking and constant collaboration. In one of my more recent posts, I commented on the founding theory behind facebook fell under the definition of a social network; the most recent incarnation, is not. Again, the ability to be in constant communication at any time anywhere is something very new to our culture. This craze only recently turned into a frenzy and has become commonplace in our daily lives.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is hard not to find someone texting or on the phone. I think about this a lot when I am in an airport or a train station waiting by myself. When I look around I see phones aglow with tiny (sometimes large) thumbs pressing on a miniature keypad. What did we do before all of this? How did we ever survive? Well, we talked with strangers, we read a newspaper, and we daydreamed. The idea of wondering or pondering has gone away. Now we just know. We know what everyone is doing at all times of the day, whether it is through facebook, twitter or a simple text. But it is good to know. It is good to pop in one someone via a condensed message. It just needs parameters, especially with students.</p>
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<img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 277px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mfJmeZx_Pk4/Sh1_JCPEenI/AAAAAAAAALE/ba3OpPz_UOk/s320/dcr0752l.jpg.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340564526326905458" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340564526326905458"/><p class="MsoNormal">So what do we do about this abuse of technology in our students’ lives and in our classrooms?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is my plan of action if I ever catch a student texting in my classroom…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>I notice a student texting</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“What could you possibly be texting about in my class? I ask the other students to think quickly? What could “Student A” be texting about that is so important?</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>SILENCE</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Students, who have the ability to send nearly 100 messages daily, fall silent when asked a simple question that evokes some minor creativity! (Confused? Watch Pink Floyd’s: Another Brick in the Wall)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I ramble off a quick-witted top five things “Student A” could be texting about…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .75in">1. Telling his agent he can’t do lunch in 13 minutes</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .75in">2. Marcinek’s class is banal (teaching moment, define banal)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .75in">3. Wear R U? (see if they can understand grammatical flaw and explain)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .75in">4. U breathing?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .75in">5. LOL me LMNOP…Z</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Students get a chuckle and the class continues. I make a brief request to silence all cell phones, pagers and typewriters. Again, a brief chuckle. Then I segue back to the lesson. We are discussing <i>Lord of the Flies</i><span style="font-style:normal">. What advice would you text to Pi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style:normal">ggy in Chapter 1? What would Piggy Text to his Auntie? What would Jack text to Ralph? Again, a teaching moment brought on by the abuse of technology. Taking the problem and converting it into a teaching moment works much better than wasting time trying to “catch” a student in the act, take their cell phone and then having to deal with over hyped mom or dad, who will most likely march into your room, pause to text something quick, and then ream you out for taking their son or daughters precious cell phone.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Texting is not going anywhere anytime soon. Schools can “crack down” and “police” it all they want, but it has become a fixture in our culture. It is excessive and being abused, however, it will fade eventually and there will be another form of technology to replace it one day. And most likely there will be studies conducted on it and we will all try and be better parents about it, but still use it ourselves. I can see it now…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>New from Fruit Based Computer Company…</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">iThink (Only to be used with iFeeling and iCreate Applications)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">iThink will think for you. It will read this writing for you. It will do your homework and get you an A+.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Features:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-font-width:0%">-</span>Fits comfortably in your brain</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-font-width:0%">-</span>It will solve your arguments and help you add friends to your iFriend Network</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If texting has become such a major problem in the lives of students then we need to intervene now, even if it involves being the un-cool parent or the un-cool teacher. Treat excessive texting like you would an addiction. Don’t get your kids the unlimited text option and don't abuse yourself. Remember those <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo">great PSAs</a> where the kid learned how to smoke pot by watching his father? Yeah, if you are an excessive texting parent or an ETP, stop being a hypocrite and monitor your own texting before you crack down on the kids. Also, if you are a teacher, leave your phone hidden or out of view</p>
<img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mfJmeZx_Pk4/Sh1_lyiG6AI/AAAAAAAAALM/E4vLUaSZWXg/s320/margulies.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340565020327995394" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340565020327995394"/>from students. Don't ever let your kids catch you on it or texting. It just sets a bad example and gives you no leverage when confronting them. Finally, get your kids a text plan that has a cap, make them pay for it and don’t bail them out. I can guarantee you the phone companies are not reading this article with a troubled face.<p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p> Textual Harassment - Where would you draw the line?tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-05-21:649749:Topic:3441322009-05-21T14:39:56.979ZKiwi Commonshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KiwiCommons
Kid these days are glued to the web and their cell phones. In fact, a survey found that teens send and receive over 1700 texts per month. That brings us to the issue of textual harassment. The definitions on the web are scarce. But basically it "involves sexual harassment through text messages, or someone sending volumes of text messages that harass, annoy or alarm another person in a manner, which the person knows is likely to cause annoyance or alarm".<br />
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But, do you think teens would be able…
Kid these days are glued to the web and their cell phones. In fact, a survey found that teens send and receive over 1700 texts per month. That brings us to the issue of textual harassment. The definitions on the web are scarce. But basically it "involves sexual harassment through text messages, or someone sending volumes of text messages that harass, annoy or alarm another person in a manner, which the person knows is likely to cause annoyance or alarm".<br />
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But, do you think teens would be able to spot textual harassment in their own lives? What behaviors would you say are unacceptable and would unquestionably qualify as textual harassment? Where would you tell a kid to draw the line?