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Smartphones in Education: Redirecting Distraction with Mobile Learning

ViewSonic Education

With so many captivating apps and games, it is easy to see how students would have a hard time putting their smartphones and other mobile devices away. If you’re interested in how to better integrate technology into your classroom, visit ViewSonic Education. .

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Smartphones in the classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

In my summer digital citizenship classes, the biggest question I get is how to control student cell phone usage. Luckily, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Andrew Carroll, former High School teacher, has a great analysis of the problem and discussion of solutions below: How to control smartphone usage in classroom?

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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Every Earth Day (April 22, 2023 this year–see our previous article on Earth Day Class Activities ) someone in your school, maybe the parent group, raises the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? Really, though: Why not? And then charge.

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22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

Ask a Tech Teacher

I thought about this when I read an article by a technical subject teacher (math, I think) pulled away from his class for a conference. Here’s what I came up with: have necessary apps on iPads and smartphones to make access the internet easier.

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Teaching students how to manage digital distractions

Neo LMS

Is banning smartphones in the classroom a viable solution? Many articles often cite this study as solid proof for banning smartphones. Read more: Smartphones in the classroom: friend or foe? The solution: teaching students how to use technology. So, what are teachers to do in this case?

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Smartphones in the classroom: friend or foe?

Neo LMS

But with today’s smartphones, can this still be the case? In the pre-smartphone era, when traditional mobile phones – or “dumb phones”, how I like to call them – ruled the world, students simply couldn’t use their phones for learning. Smartphones and the AIDA approach. Plus, you probably won’t succeed 100%.

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7 Ways to Get Teens Reading in a Smartphone Culture

Edsurge

This article is part of the guide What Reading Well Looks Like. In it, Adams decries his students’ lack of interest in reading and places the blame squarely on smartphones. In it, Adams decries his students’ lack of interest in reading and places the blame squarely on smartphones. my smartphone.