Comments on: New York teens pay valets to store digital devices http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/10/04/new-york-teens-pay-valets-to-store-digital-devices/ Just another eSchool Media site Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: nancygeorge http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/10/04/new-york-teens-pay-valets-to-store-digital-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-165643 nancygeorge Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:04:36 +0000 http://www.eschoolnews.com/?p=111869#comment-165643 In an age when mobile learning and the use of mobiole technologies to augment classroom-based learning is growing and is considered cutting edge, it is disconcerting that schools actually legislate against the students' taking their phones to class. Understandably, ringing cell phones cause disruption in class, but surely the teachers can find innovative ways of engaging students in using their cell phones in learning activities - and simply insist that otherwise the phones are to be turned off during class time. I am amused by the entrepreneurial efforts of the truck owners, however! In an age when mobile learning and the use of mobiole technologies to augment classroom-based learning is growing and is considered cutting edge, it is disconcerting that schools actually legislate against the students’ taking their phones to class.

Understandably, ringing cell phones cause disruption in class, but surely the teachers can find innovative ways of engaging students in using their cell phones in learning activities – and simply insist that otherwise the phones are to be turned off during class time.

I am amused by the entrepreneurial efforts of the truck owners, however!

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