WE SURRENDER!

Using Cellular Devices as Learning tools

Greeneville High SchoolGreeneville, TN

Dr. Linda Stroud, GHS Principal

Beverly Miller, Greeneville City Schools CTO

Larry Jones, GCS Network Admin

CELL PHONES AND LEARNING - A

CENTRAL OFFICE PERSPECTIVE

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR CAN MAKE . . .

2007-2008 school year

Administrators seeking to block cellular transmissions

Cell phone discipline incidents out of hand

Teachers struggling with cell phone issues

Students – connected to world only before/after school

2008-2009 school year

Encouraged appropriate usage

Students more engaged

Fewer discipline problems

Connected to world before/during/after school

1:1 finally a possibility

CELL PHONES AND LEARNING - AN ADMINISTRATOR’S

PERSPECTIVE

Dr. Linda Stroud – GHS Principal

THE PROBLEM Cell phone usage by students had

become a HUGE behavioral issue at GHS and was overwhelming the discipline policy.

THE SOLUTION Use cell phones as learning tools! Use them to our advantage to motivate

students for learning and as a reward. Set and enforce reasonable

consequences that have the desired effect.

THE RESULTS It works! Cell phones are no longer a behavior

issue at GHS. Approximately 900 students x 4 periods per day

x 120 school days = 432,000 opportunities for cell phone policy violation! However,

To date at GHS for the 2008-2009 school year: ONLY 148 cell phones have been taken from

students by teachers for policy violation 35 of those students elected to leave their cell

phone in the school office for 7 days 103 students elected to pay a $20 fine for the

return of their cell phone $2060 have been collected in fines!

CELL PHONES AND LEARNING FROM A CLASSROOM

TEACHER’S PERSPECTIVE

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