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sicklyman



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I believe it was Thai.

Thanks johnslat for the reality check!
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plumpy nut



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 1:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Cell Phones Reply with quote
LPKSA wrote:




You confiscate the phone. Any subsequent backtalk or protest: Send the "student" out of the class.



The problem is "smart phones" have dictionaries. Some of my best students were on the dictionaries during my classes, the kind that you want in classes. Be careful about banning "smart phones". It really would be bad to tell some of the serious English students "you want to use your dictionaries, you can't, I'll kick you out of class".
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Mushkilla



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 2:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Cell Phones Reply with quote
plumpy nut wrote:
LPKSA wrote:




You confiscate the phone. Any subsequent backtalk or protest: Send the "student" out of the class.



The problem is "smart phones" have dictionaries. Some of my best students were on the dictionaries during my classes, the kind that you want in classes. Be careful about banning "smart phones". It really would be bad to tell some of the serious English students "you want to use your dictionaries, you can't, I'll kick you out of class".

While we are in the topic of "smart phone", there is a study done by a Saudi student at Montana University, where he compared how US students and Saudi students use "smart phones" to support their learning. He found that US students reported using their smartphones "sometime to often" during class and outside of classroom setting while Saudi students on the other hand reported using smartphones "Never or Rarely".
http://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/3335
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The Fifth Column



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 3:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Cell Phones Reply with quote
Mushkilla wrote:
plumpy nut wrote:
LPKSA wrote:




You confiscate the phone. Any subsequent backtalk or protest: Send the "student" out of the class.



The problem is "smart phones" have dictionaries. Some of my best students were on the dictionaries during my classes, the kind that you want in classes. Be careful about banning "smart phones". It really would be bad to tell some of the serious English students "you want to use your dictionaries, you can't, I'll kick you out of class".

While we are in the topic of "smart phone", there is a study done by a Saudi student at Montana University, where he compared how US students and Saudi students use "smart phones" to support their learning. He found that US students reported using their smartphones "sometime to often" during class and outside of classroom setting while Saudi students on the other hand reported using smartphones "Never or Rarely".
http://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/3335


“None so blind as those that will not see.”

-Matthew Henry
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mashkif



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Cell Phones Reply with quote
plumpy nut wrote:
LPKSA wrote:




You confiscate the phone. Any subsequent backtalk or protest: Send the "student" out of the class.



The problem is "smart phones" have dictionaries. Some of my best students were on the dictionaries during my classes, the kind that you want in classes. Be careful about banning "smart phones". It really would be bad to tell some of the serious English students "you want to use your dictionaries, you can't, I'll kick you out of class".





I do actually write in the syllabus the phones cannot be used as dictionaries, calculators, personal organizers, etc. They are enjoined to instead get dedicated electronic dictionaries or--shock, horror--paper dictionaries.
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LPKSA



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:26 am    Post subject: Re: Cell Phones Reply with quote
mashkif wrote:
plumpy nut wrote:
LPKSA wrote:




You confiscate the phone. Any subsequent backtalk or protest: Send the "student" out of the class.



The problem is "smart phones" have dictionaries. Some of my best students were on the dictionaries during my classes, the kind that you want in classes. Be careful about banning "smart phones". It really would be bad to tell some of the serious English students "you want to use your dictionaries, you can't, I'll kick you out of class".



I do actually write in the syllabus the phones cannot be used as dictionaries, calculators, personal organizers, etc. They are enjoined to instead get dedicated electronic dictionaries or--shock, horror--paper dictionaries.


Come off of it. They aren't using dictionaries when their phones are out. They are looking at travel websites, youtube videos of drifting, etc. etc. No phones in class. I took a phone away from a student the other day and gave it back to him the following day. Problem seems to have since been eradicated.
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rbc



Joined: 24 Jun 2009
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:01 am    Post subject: This worked for me Reply with quote
At the old KSU East Building, the admin ladies posted elaborate signs in all classrooms explaining a new policy: The teacher will give 3 warnings to a student not to use her cell phone. Then what? I started asking around, no one knew. Finally, a dean said, maybe . . . take their phones?

I didn't want to touch anyone's phone. Instead, I told my classes that the next time I saw a phone out, I would stop the class. Everyone must put their phones in their bags, and bring the bags to the front of the class.

Within a day, it happened. Okay, that's it. Phones in bags, bags to the front. Hurry, hurry, hurry, you're stopping the lesson.

It was fun playing cop, and it worked. I didn't have to do it again for the rest of the semester.
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