Toys to Tools

Author: Liz Kolb
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004ASNDAW

Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education

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Ignoring, or worse, demonizing a technology that students willingly and actively use in every other aspect of their lives is not a winning educational strategy uthor Liz Kolb sees them as powerful technology in the hands of students. Acknowledging the current reality-that many schools ban student cell phone use in the classroom-Kolb discusses a host of innovative and highly interesting uses for the technology that do not require using the phones in the classroom. She also addresses the issues that have caused the bans and provides guidelines for overcoming the problems.

Ignoring, or worse, demonizing a technology that students willingly and actively use in every other aspect of their lives is not a winning educational strategy. Tapping into the ubiquitous power of modern communications technology and merging it with the flexibility

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