Spanish teacher in WI shares how she uses cell phones in high school

One of my PLN friends on twitter @kmtitler was on the local news in Wisconsin as a Golden Apple award winner. She was sharing how she uses cell phones to engage her Spanish students in language learning.

Latest PEW Study on Cell Phones and Teens

The most recent PEW study on Teens and Cell Phones conducted by Amanda Lenhart has uncovered some interesting (although not surprising) data. Below are a few of the highlights (quoted from the document itself):

• Cell phones help bridge the digital divide: Teens from low-income households, particularly African-Americans, are much more likely than other teens to go online using a cell phone.
• Most schools treat the phone as a disruptive force that must be managed and often excluded from the school and the classroom.
• For parents, teens' attachment to their phones is an area of conflict and regulation.
• Girls more fully embrace most aspects of cell phone-based communication.
• One in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day, or 3000 texts a month.
• One in three (34%) texting teens ages 16-17 say they have texted while driving. That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17.
• 4% of teens say they have sent a sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude image of themselves to someone via text message.
• 15% of teens say they have received a sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude image of someone they know by text.

Receive text messages without giving out your number!

A new web application called TxtMeBox allows anyone to set up an account so they can receive text messages without having to give out their phone number. When you sign up, you recive a link that you can post on your website (blog, wiki...etc) so that students or parents can click on the link and send you a text. Fortunately you also get a link to cancel all text messages, so that you can stop them if you get bombarded!

Here is my link.
http://www.txtmebox.com/5gxiolrt08

Cell Phones in Learning Radio Show April 7th: Science Teacher Victor Fitzjarrald's Cell Phone in Classroom Research

http://www.cellulared.com (victor's site)