Comments on: Cell phone jammers at school? http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:47:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Brian Crosby http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35850 Brian Crosby Sat, 12 May 2007 20:05:20 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35850 Wes- and what about schools that happen to be in wifi rich environments like the one I blogged about here: http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=224 If students start bringing wifi computers to school, or the school starts handing them out for use on the districts locked down network ,,, how long before students notice that there is open local wifi they can log into to bypass didtrict filters? Then what - block wifi from the school? Will that effect reception for the houses near the school that have wifi? Now what? Connections are messy! Wes- and what about schools that happen to be in wifi rich environments like the one I blogged about here:
http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=224
If students start bringing wifi computers to school, or the school starts handing them out for use on the districts locked down network ,,, how long before students notice that there is open local wifi they can log into to bypass didtrict filters? Then what - block wifi from the school? Will that effect reception for the houses near the school that have wifi? Now what?
Connections are messy!

]]> By: Scott Meech http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35849 Scott Meech Fri, 11 May 2007 17:38:31 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35849 Outstanding entry today Wesley... "Our conversations relating to these topics need to extend beyond the technology, to the pedagogy and learning fundamentals which either are or are not expressed in the positions people take about these topics." I think this is our greatest challenge as Tech Educators. We need to put together a solid body of work that provides solid evidence on how to use this technology properly. We talk about data-driven decision making. Well, we need more than solid argument to change their minds. Thanks for leading the way... Outstanding entry today Wesley…

“Our conversations relating to these topics need to extend beyond the technology, to the pedagogy and learning fundamentals which either are or are not expressed in the positions people take about these topics.”

I think this is our greatest challenge as Tech Educators. We need to put together a solid body of work that provides solid evidence on how to use this technology properly. We talk about data-driven decision making. Well, we need more than solid argument to change their minds.

Thanks for leading the way…

]]> By: Darren Wilson http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35848 Darren Wilson Fri, 11 May 2007 17:05:32 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35848 I attended the year-end Kindergarten PTA program at our school last night and was really taken back by some comments made about cell phones. As the kindergarteners were taking the stage to sing a few songs, the music teacher made the typical concert etiquite speech to the packed house of pround parents. It sounded something like, "turn off your cell phones because we don't want to hear you talk" etc. She was very insistent that ALL phones go OFF, but from my vantage point, I didn't see any phones powering down at all. Why? Because the parents were using them as cameras and wanted to take pictures of their babies. There wasn't a picture-taking parent that was about to turn their phone off. We are running schools (and kindergarten PTA programs) under an outdated set of rules. We still have way too many teachers who haven't noticed that things are a changin' I attended the year-end Kindergarten PTA program at our school last night and was really taken back by some comments made about cell phones. As the kindergarteners were taking the stage to sing a few songs, the music teacher made the typical concert etiquite speech to the packed house of pround parents. It sounded something like, “turn off your cell phones because we don’t want to hear you talk” etc. She was very insistent that ALL phones go OFF, but from my vantage point, I didn’t see any phones powering down at all. Why? Because the parents were using them as cameras and wanted to take pictures of their babies. There wasn’t a picture-taking parent that was about to turn their phone off.

We are running schools (and kindergarten PTA programs) under an outdated set of rules. We still have way too many teachers who haven’t noticed that things are a changin’

]]> By: Leon Cych http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35846 Leon Cych Fri, 11 May 2007 15:12:00 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35846 In eurpope we have just had our firts txt conference about use fo phones in higher education - pleae pop in and have a look at the film - it shows several strategic uses of phones http://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=62 In eurpope we have just had our firts txt conference about use fo phones in higher education - pleae pop in and have a look at the film - it shows several strategic uses of phones

http://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=62

]]> By: Vinny http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35845 Vinny Fri, 11 May 2007 14:54:16 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/05/11/cell-phone-jammers-at-school/#comment-35845 So if you are ineffective at properly supervising students who abuse this technology, then you should deny it to all others. Of course, administrators can no longer use cell-based walkie talkies to communicate. Teachers must now wait for school phones to be available to make personal and work-related calls. In the event of a phone outage, everyone is without communication. This is unfortunately how we react to many of the challenges in education. If one person messes it up, no one can use it. Isn't this why we block Blogger, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube and every other cool web tool? So if you are ineffective at properly supervising students who abuse this technology, then you should deny it to all others.

Of course, administrators can no longer use cell-based walkie talkies to communicate. Teachers must now wait for school phones to be available to make personal and work-related calls. In the event of a phone outage, everyone is without communication.

This is unfortunately how we react to many of the challenges in education. If one person messes it up, no one can use it. Isn’t this why we block Blogger, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube and every other cool web tool?

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