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=Home= =__Cell Phones in Education: Teachers' Overview:__=

__Grade/Content Area:__
10th/11th English Language Arts

__Purpose:__
This project will help students better understand appropriate and safe use of cell phones, while at the same time introduce them to some of the possible ways cell phone, particularly smart phone, technology can help facilitate learning and assume a prominent role in helping students acquire digital literacy.

Goals:
The goal of this project is for students to be able to demonstrate their understanding of issues surrounding appropriate and safe use of the cell phone. They will gain experience integrating available cell phone technology with existing systems such as the internet and available software applications by producing multimedia content that expresses their understanding of these issues.

Objectives:
Students, working in groups, will produce two multimedia products using content created and delivered using their cell phones: 1 slide show on Cell Phone Etiquette and a Public Service Announcement (PSA) dealing with an issue of appropriate or safe use of a cell phone.

Students will be able to create original photo, video, audio content using their cell phones (or appropriate alternative technology as needed) and upload it to a designated website to create multimedia products.

Students will demonstrate through their multimedia products that they understand the essentials of cell phone etiquette, cell phone safety, and issues of concern surrounding cell phone use, particularly in a school setting.

Students will demonstrate through the presentation of their multimedia products that they can present information that has a clear main idea with at least two supporting ideas, followed by a conclusion that reinforces the main idea.

__NYS Standards:__
As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts,and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
 * ELA Standard 1**: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.


 * ELA Standard 3**: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will present, in oral and written language and from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.

understanding of people and their views.
 * ELA Standard 4**: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction. Students will use oral and written language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their

http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/ela/pub/elalearn.pdf

ISTE Standard 1: **Creativity and Innovation**
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

ISTE Standard 2: Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

ISTE Standard 5: Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.

@http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-student-standards-2007.aspx

__Timeline:__
This unit should take approximately two weeks. (see timeline on Student Menu Page)

In week 1, the asset inventory, etiquette brainstorming on Wifitti, and presentations of the cell phone etiquette slide shows will be done in class. Students will be tasked to review the introduction, instructional material on etiquette and photobucket as homework, then use class time to work in their groups to plan, create, and edit their slide shows.

Weekend between Week 1 and Week 2: Students will review instructional material on cell phone issues of safety and concern and using Hipcast in conjunction with their individual Blogs.

In week 2, the student groups will be assigned a cell phone topic of concern for which they will create a short PSA and script, using their cell phones to create the original multimedia content. The PSA

__Operational Logistics:__
Prior to beginning the unit, it is stipulated that every student in the class has a cell phone and that there are enough smart phones such that there would be at least one available in each group that has an assignment. There are adequate computer and internet access nodes and multimedia producers in the school that each student can, as needed, have a comparable capability to complete all assigned work. Services like Hipcast and Photobucket that require paid subscription to be of practical use have been upgraded/subscribed. Parents have signed off on student participation. The notional high school where I "teach" uses a gmail email client, so each student has a gmail email address and can fully partake of google related interfaces with online services. Each student has already established a blogger account and is familiar with creating additional blogs.

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 * Preface:** This video provides a brief preface that clarifies some of the notional aspects of the scenario I used for creating this project.

__Assessment:__
Assessment will have two main components (Message and Multimedia Products)

Message: The students will be evaluated on how well they express their understanding of appropriate and safe cell phone use as well as a thorough understanding of the repercussions attendant with those areas of general concern with cell phone use in school and out of it. Student ability to offer valid and practical alternatives to counter inappropriate cell phone use will be essential to success. Each assignment will be evaluated on the organization and clarity of the information presented to determine how well the students supported their message.

Multimedia Products: The student will be further assessed both on the technical quality of their presentation, and on their effectiveness in utilizing the cell phone as the centerpiece for creating and delivering content.

Supporting Information - Virtual Field Trip:
This is an embedded link to a Virtual Field Trip created by Melanie Wiscount, a teacher and doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership/Educational Technology. While some of the Powerpoint functionality is disabled in the online presentation, and some links have expired, the VFT remains a powerful collection of resources and information that is well worth exploring.

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__Media Credits:__
See Reference Page