You know, it's not that hard getting kids attention. Keeping it is harder and keeping it when you have 30 of them to contend with harder still. I contend, however, that we (educators) just don't try hard enough to get their attention in the first place. Imagine a classroom where the teacher comes in every now and then with a cool lesson to share with kids. A lesson done with some digital gadget, like a lesson based on the cell phone, or on digital cameras, or palm blogging, or podcasting, etc. I bet that teachers would be more likely to get and more importantly keep student attention. I think we gotta go where no teacher (or very few anyways) has gone before, we gotta go mobile!
~julz
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Well then, I suppose we better get off our digital behinds and get going on our Mobile Moments, our Digital Discoveries, our Quantum Quests, our well you get the idea. I think we really need to brainstorm and develop our cell phone lesson plans, as well as our blog and podcasting lesson plans. Should we set aside a weeknight (when you get back from Alaska) to do that?
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