WE SURRENDER!
Using Cellular Devices as Learning tools
Greeneville High SchoolGreeneville, TN
Dr. Linda Stroud, GHS Principal
Beverly Miller, Greeneville City Schools CTO
Larry Jones, GCS Network Admin
CELL PHONES AND LEARNING - A
CENTRAL OFFICE PERSPECTIVE
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR CAN MAKE . . .
2007-2008 school year
Administrators seeking to block cellular transmissions
Cell phone discipline incidents out of hand
Teachers struggling with cell phone issues
Students – connected to world only before/after school
2008-2009 school year
Encouraged appropriate usage
Students more engaged
Fewer discipline problems
Connected to world before/during/after school
1:1 finally a possibility
CELL PHONES AND LEARNING - AN ADMINISTRATOR’S
PERSPECTIVE
Dr. Linda Stroud – GHS Principal
THE PROBLEM Cell phone usage by students had
become a HUGE behavioral issue at GHS and was overwhelming the discipline policy.
THE SOLUTION Use cell phones as learning tools! Use them to our advantage to motivate
students for learning and as a reward. Set and enforce reasonable
consequences that have the desired effect.
THE RESULTS It works! Cell phones are no longer a behavior
issue at GHS. Approximately 900 students x 4 periods per day
x 120 school days = 432,000 opportunities for cell phone policy violation! However,
To date at GHS for the 2008-2009 school year: ONLY 148 cell phones have been taken from
students by teachers for policy violation 35 of those students elected to leave their cell
phone in the school office for 7 days 103 students elected to pay a $20 fine for the
return of their cell phone $2060 have been collected in fines!
CELL PHONES AND LEARNING FROM A CLASSROOM
TEACHER’S PERSPECTIVE
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