Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: 3 ways to use the old-school phone to enrich learning

Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: 3 ways to use the old-school phone to enrich learning:

3 ways to use the old-school phone to enrich learning

by noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen)

One of the oldest forms of mobile social networking is the old-school phone call. Innovative educators like Will Richardson and Marc Prensky have said, “Life is an open phone test.” Except at school. Why is it that in the real world we are valued for our ability to address and use connections to solve our problems, but in school we call that cheating? In its most primitive form, the cell phone is a great tool to just reach out to someone who may know and answer or be an expert on a topic of interest.

Who's doing this?

1. Mike Kaechele - High school social studies teacherWe just finished a school wide integrated project on the Industrial Revolution. After studying the past students had to solve a current problem with a community partner. Students used their phones to find, call, email, and text businesses and nonprofits in our area. Some groups followed that up with face to face meetings with their community  partner. They also invited their community partners to their showcase last week. During the course of the project, individuals would receive a call in class and, just like in the real world they developed the career-readiness skill of excusing themselves to step outside the