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Otterman Ollie · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: Teachers survival kit

I spotted a recent ad in a paper and I thought yes,I could use that ! One of the things that bugs me in the class is the brats incessant use of their phones , they text,play games , take photos of themselves and me ,download music etc,etc, you name it .
What I want ,what I really need is a jammer that will kill those little electronic devils and give me some peace .I don't care how much it costs just to see the expressions on their faces when the jammer turns them into a useless piece of junk will be reward enough .
Btw,has anyone studied/researched what the long term effects are of having all those pocket phones on in such a confined area sending all those waves in our direction ?

billybuzz · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 219 Location: turkey

Thats a long read isin't it ? So we should switch them off more often then , true or false?

Alan13446 · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 17 Location: Still in Canada

I am shocked to hear that Turks actually use cell phones....I thought that in the entire country, there might be, what, 3 - 4 of them... Laughing

If the Turks could figure out a way to smoke them, or talk on their cigarettes, it would free up one hand, wouldn't it.

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

ollie, theonly time I have heard of these jammers was in Qatar. The mosques had to be fitted with them as the Qatari youth was too incompetent to turn off a phone. I really wanted them in the classroom. The management told me it was a silly idea.

What's your record for confiscated phones in the classroom. Mine is(I think) 35. .... There was only 18 students in the class

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Probably none of them.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

So can we agree then that the pocket phone is a menace and needs to be strictly controlled in the classrom ?

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Without a doubt. I turn my phone off every lesson- why can't students?

Golightly · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject:

you could always construct a Faraday cage in the class - that way, no signal passes through.
dunno how you'd pursuade the boss.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:16 am Post subject:

Sounds interesting ,I would just like the power and authority to confiscate them for the entire lesson .That would be a major step in the right direction .I would also welcome a remote to open and close the classroom door .Another thing that would be useful is a sprinkler system that can be activated above a sleeping students head . I know some of you will shudder at this ,but an elecric stun gun would be useful for the gobby ones too .
I welcome anything that would make life more bearable and even give me a bit of pleasure in the process ,just having the ability to chuck a persistant offender out of the room is a great boost to your self esteem .

Alexius · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

Cell phones in the classroom - this is how I handle it:

Rule one, switch them off. If someone doesn't and it's melodic jangly ringtone wafts into my delicate shell-like, rule two kicks in - I answer it.

It doesn't happen a second time. Smile

molly farquharson · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 839 Location: istanbul

good one alexius. Twisted Evil

Golightly · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject:

There's a new trick out, and one particularly designed to offend your sense of your own mortality - a ringtone that only people below the age of twenty can hear. It's based on a piece of technology that came out a couple of years ago that was designed to stop groups of kids hanging around outside stores. It exploits the fact that the vast majority of people lose their ability to hear very high-pitched sounds as they enter their twenties. The device emitted an unpleasant, constant hum, rather akin to having a mosquito next to your ear. Now some nasty little fvckwit has exploited this to make a ringtone for teenagers' ears only.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:25 am Post subject:

Anybody got a jammer I think its the easiest and best way to stop all the classroom disruption they cause .

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

For uni students I just enacted an evil punishment-- if they even touch their phones, I mark them absent for the lesson and give them a zero in participation for the week. Once or twice isn't bad, but having this happen several times will affect whether or not they can pass. I also warn them that I won't screw around with telling them what I'm doing-- if I see it, I'll mark it and not say a word (keeps them from wasting time trying to argue that their cell phone use was justified).

I won't accept phone dictionaries as an excuse-- they're crap dictionaries anyway. I use my discretion for if they're just checking the time-- it's easy to tell what they're up to. Since I don't repeat myself til I'm blue in the face about the cell phone rule, they start thinking they're getting away with it, so some days when 2 or 3 of them have been punished, I'll announce to the class which ones have been punished and when.

Their phones rarely ring with this rule. If a student forgets, I let it slide once. Any idiot who actually ansers his phone gets tossed out and he's lucky if I let him back in the following lesson.

Cruel but effective...