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pkang0202
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| I confiscate phones. When I take then, I give them a sheet with 100 vocabulary words. If they want their phone back, they have to pass a vocab test from those words. To pass they need to score a 90% or higher. |
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Bemused
Joined: 02 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 2:44 pm Post subject: Worth the Cost |
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A cell phone jammer was the answer for me and it worked like a dream. My students never had a clue that I had one and it was bliss not having to waste time with explaining cell phone usage rules and then enforcing such.
http://www.thesignaljammer.com/categories/Portable-Cell-Phone-Jammers/ |
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buildbyflying
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: To your right. No, your other right.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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consider this the lemons to lemonade post:
a lot of teachers are using phones to enable students to communicate more openly in class.
You can use twitter and edumodo to allow students to text messages to the monitor, so that students can "chat" in the middle of a lecture.
Given kids are a different bird altogether, but might be worth a shot.
At least, you'll know what the kids are thinking and that helps with assessment. |
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oldfatfarang
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Location: On the road to somewhere.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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Wow, thanks for that. I asked a co-teacher recently, why kids are using cell phones in their high school classes. She said, that a teacher confiscated a phone - and the principal felt he had to apologise to the student's parents (?).
I asked the co-teacher: "If Korea is supposed to be such a wiz bang hi-tech society, why don't schools just install cell phone jammers?" How easy is that, problem solved. She just looked at me like I was from Mars (which I am, because I'm a Foreigner). |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| oldfatfarang wrote: |
Wow, thanks for that. I asked a co-teacher recently, why kids are using cell phones in their high school classes. She said, that a teacher confiscated a phone - and the principal felt he had to apologise to the student's parents (?).
I asked the co-teacher: "If Korea is supposed to be such a wiz bang hi-tech society, why don't schools just install cell phone jammers?" How easy is that, problem solved. She just looked at me like I was from Mars (which I am, because I'm a Foreigner). |
Because sometimes cell phones are necessary (emergency calls/dictionaries). And teachers/administration would also be unable to use their cell phones.
I would have looked at you like that as well. |
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bish
Joined: 09 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| oldfatfarang wrote: |
Wow, thanks for that. I asked a co-teacher recently, why kids are using cell phones in their high school classes. She said, that a teacher confiscated a phone - and the principal felt he had to apologise to the student's parents (?).
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Same at my school, I think the inmates are running the asylum at my place. Obviously, we have discipline problems in the USA, Canada and the UK but this place is catching up fast!
I agree with Korean Ambition's post. The cell phone addiction here does seem to excuse lateness time and time again and people's eagerness to answer any meaningless, pointless call as quickly as possible is ridiculous.
I am currently trying to persuade my fiance to stop answering calls from her sister and mother when she is driving as they only ever ask "what did you have for lunch?"... She says they will worry but I am more worried about her having or causing an accident... |
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bish
Joined: 09 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| oldfatfarang wrote: |
Wow, thanks for that. I asked a co-teacher recently, why kids are using cell phones in their high school classes. She said, that a teacher confiscated a phone - and the principal felt he had to apologise to the student's parents (?).
I asked the co-teacher: "If Korea is supposed to be such a wiz bang hi-tech society, why don't schools just install cell phone jammers?" How easy is that, problem solved. She just looked at me like I was from Mars (which I am, because I'm a Foreigner). |
Because sometimes cell phones are necessary (emergency calls/dictionaries) |
Cell phones are not necessary in class. Parents can call the school in emergencies as they always have done. Students can buy dictionaries as part of their course.
Last edited by bish on Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:40 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Harpeau
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Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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I think different people have different cell phone etiquet. Myself personally, I may not respond to a text, unless there is a definite need to. I got there message and understood it. That may be all that is needed.
I may not answer or do anything about texts unless they are a clearly an urgent matter or an emergency.
If I am with a friend, I will generally keep phone calls (if I even answer them) to about 30 seconds. Not an emergency? Tell me what you want and I'll call you back later on.
I believe that the person that I am with is more important than anything that might be coming in. Sometimes I will turn off my cellular phone in order not to be disturbed. Cellullar Phone etiquet has really gone to pot over the last 10 years! |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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When my school allowed the students to have their phones with them, I had a simple rule: I catch you using it, then I hold the phone for the rest of the class. If you get a call, I answer the call. If you get a text message, I read the message aloud so you don't miss anything "so important."
Last year and this year, the students must hand their phones to their homeroom teachers at the beginning of the school day and the phones are returned at the end of the day. If anyone's caught using a "spare" phone, they have to discuss the situation with the vice-principal. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Because sometimes cell phones are necessary (emergency calls/dictionaries). And teachers/administration would also be unable to use their cell phones.
I would have looked at you like that as well. |
Dictionaries? As though the paper form of a dictionary is "out of style" 
I guess your school doesn't have LAND LINES, eh Urb? |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| bish wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| oldfatfarang wrote: |
Wow, thanks for that. I asked a co-teacher recently, why kids are using cell phones in their high school classes. She said, that a teacher confiscated a phone - and the principal felt he had to apologise to the student's parents (?).
I asked the co-teacher: "If Korea is supposed to be such a wiz bang hi-tech society, why don't schools just install cell phone jammers?" How easy is that, problem solved. She just looked at me like I was from Mars (which I am, because I'm a Foreigner). |
Because sometimes cell phones are necessary (emergency calls/dictionaries) |
Cell phones are not necessary in class. Parents can call the school in emergencies as they always have done. Students can buy dictionaries as part of their course. |
And what do teachers do? And if they have a serviceable dictionary on their phone...parents would complain about having to buy their children a extra dictionary on top of everything else. Since the LMB administration parents now have a lot more say and power. |
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bish
Joined: 09 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:58 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Because sometimes cell phones are necessary (emergency calls/dictionaries). And teachers/administration would also be unable to use their cell phones.
I would have looked at you like that as well. |
Dictionaries? As though the paper form of a dictionary is "out of style"
I guess your school doesn't have LAND LINES, eh Urb? |
He has his act to live up to, don't you know?
Sometimes he has a point but most of the time it's boring...
Everyone knows that Korean students don't use their phone in class for real emergencies (see Korean Ambition's post) and the "dictionaries" are a good excuse for them to bring the phone into class.
If you want a dictionary, buy a dictionary. If you want to study, turn your phone off for an hour... |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Because sometimes cell phones are necessary (emergency calls/dictionaries). And teachers/administration would also be unable to use their cell phones.
I would have looked at you like that as well. |
Dictionaries? As though the paper form of a dictionary is "out of style"
I guess your school doesn't have LAND LINES, eh Urb? |
Nothing to do with style. Why would parents buy two dictionaries?
As for landlines when anybody calls a teacher at any of the schools I have been at...it has always been on their cell phone. |
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bish
Joined: 09 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| bish wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| oldfatfarang wrote: |
Wow, thanks for that. I asked a co-teacher recently, why kids are using cell phones in their high school classes. She said, that a teacher confiscated a phone - and the principal felt he had to apologise to the student's parents (?).
I asked the co-teacher: "If Korea is supposed to be such a wiz bang hi-tech society, why don't schools just install cell phone jammers?" How easy is that, problem solved. She just looked at me like I was from Mars (which I am, because I'm a Foreigner). |
Because sometimes cell phones are necessary (emergency calls/dictionaries) |
Cell phones are not necessary in class. Parents can call the school in emergencies as they always have done. Students can buy dictionaries as part of their course. |
And what do teachers do? And if they have a serviceable dictionary on their phone...parents would complain about having to buy their children a extra dictionary on top of everything else. Since the LMB administration parents now have a lot more say and power. |
Teachers can still use a phone outside class. The guy you were arguing with did make a stupid point but in your attempt to come over all smart-arse you made another stupid one by saying that phones are necessary in class to be used as dictionaries or "for emergencies".
If a school says "no phones", that should be the end of it as far as the parents are concerned. If there is an emergency, they can call the school office. If a school says students should buy a single-purpose dictionary or go without then it that is what they should do. |
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bish
Joined: 09 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Worth the Cost |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Because sometimes cell phones are necessary (emergency calls/dictionaries). And teachers/administration would also be unable to use their cell phones.
I would have looked at you like that as well. |
Dictionaries? As though the paper form of a dictionary is "out of style"
I guess your school doesn't have LAND LINES, eh Urb? |
Nothing to do with style. Why would parents buy two dictionaries?
As for landlines when anybody calls a teacher at any of the schools I have been at...it has always been on their cell phone. |
And have they answered during class? |
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