Using Cellphones in the Classroom (Constructively)

Wired campus article

Excerpt:

1) Check the spelling/definition of a word
2) Research a topic
3) Look up reference images
4) Pull up maps (even with satellite imagery)
5) Document a science lab with built in digital camera/video
6) Fact check on the fly
7) Mail questions to the teacher that they might be embarrassed to ask Classroom response system
9) Take quizzes
10) Record and/or listen to podcasts

[perhaps best done in group settings, not lecture...]

1. 12) Ask a librarian (via voice, IM, or SMS)
   13) receive and store library-catalog-generated text messages of call numbers for books and reserve items

   — jacqui grallo    May 7, 05:48 PM    #

Tags: AskALibrarian, cellphones, classroom