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Educators Can’t Keep Up With the Latest 'Technocrazes'

I don't remember where it was in the U.S. that a university required all its students to carry a iPhone or iTouch (given at the time of enrollment). Time has come where teachers and students are to be engaged using all this tools to connect and get involved in social media.

I already said quite many times, administrators and teachers are not to forbid the use of mobile gadgets in school, but allow them and tech students how to use them in education and in the classroom. Do you know why students are texting in class? Because they're bored. If we as educators do a better job of engaging them, they'd have no reason to text o violate policies of having cellphones off.

Jay Mathews of The Washington Post wrote, Texting vs. Teaching: Who Wins. The article makes a point I have often tried to make:

    Our high schools are full of secretly texting, blithely unengaged adolescents, my colleague Dan de Vise reveals today in a story on a Montgomery County proposal to let students text during lunch. Dan’s story describes the situation well. Educators can’t keep up with the latest technocrazes. They banned cellphones for awhile, then decided they were necessary for emergencies. They figured no one would use them in class, forgetting that the text function allows a flurry of conversations without the miscreants making a discernible sound.


    But since such classes are relatively rare, and teaching often involves the instructor talking and students listening, it is relatively easy for texters to avoid detection, and relatively common for them to be so bored they prefer to tune out and send messages. The standard administrative response is to try a new rule--like texting only during lunch - that might or might not alleviate the problem, when the answer to almost every educational mishap or distraction is not more rules, but more good teaching.



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