{"id":58,"date":"2012-11-16T23:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T23:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/ckirsh\/?p=58"},"modified":"2019-08-19T23:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:44:55","slug":"when-phones-in-class-are-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2012\/11\/16\/when-phones-in-class-are-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"When phones in class are awesome…"},"content":{"rendered":"

During an exciting art session this afternoon, my students were saying brilliant, insightful, and deeply reflective things about how we read images (we had just created an image that represented a “frame” in our retelling of Tuck Everlasting). My colleague and co-creator, also our school’s art teacher, grabbed her iPhone, turned on the recorder, and passed it around to the students to share their ideas.<\/p>\n

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I’ve used my own iPhone in classes as a documentation tool and to save time when trying to furiously scribe for my students when they are having a group discussion…it also really ensures that we capture our students’ thinking\u00a0as they are saying it<\/em>…I’ve often found that my notes of their comments aren’t nearly as descriptive as actually just re-listening to them saying it.<\/p>\n

How else can the iPhone be transformed from a phone and gadget to a powerful tool, capable of helping our students share their thinking and ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During an exciting art session this afternoon, my students were saying brilliant, insightful, and deeply reflective things about how we read images (we had just created an image that represented a “frame” in our retelling of Tuck Everlasting). My colleague and co-creator, also our school’s art teacher, grabbed her iPhone, turned on the recorder, and … Continue reading “When phones in class are awesome…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionplan","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}