Cellphones: The Great Distractor

Cellphones: The Great Distractor

Cellphones in the classroom create a huge distraction for both teacher and students.

Cellphones can create a huge distraction in the classroom. Teachers need a solution to decrease this distraction.

8th Grade Language Arts

This lesson is designed for 8th grade math students. Students range in age from 12 to 14. The classroom consists of both regular education students and inclusion students.

ISTE Standard 1.7 Global Collaborator Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

ISTE Standard 1.4 Innovative Designer Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

d. Students explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions.

a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.

8th Grade Language Arts

This lesson is designed for 8th grade math students. Students range in age from 12 to 14. The classroom consists of both regular education students and inclusion students.

W.8.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a selfgenerated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

W.8.7 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between informatino and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

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After watching the video and reading the article, list some important facts that you learned from each one? You will list these on the class Padlet. What do you think? Are cellphones a distraction? Do the facts that you wrote down support your opinion?

Task

Your task

You will research and find at least one source that discusses the issue of cellphone distraction in the classroom. You will then work with a classmate to create a workable solution to decrease the distraction of cellphones in the classroom.

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Step Four

Create a Padlet and list important facts and details you learned from your article. You and your partner will use the same Padlet.

Using Google Chrome search for articles and/or videos on the subject of cellphone distraction in the classroom. You and your partner will find different articles.

Now it is time to solve the problem--think of a method that a teacher could use in his/her classroom to cut down on cellphone distraction.

Present your solution using Flipgrid. Discuss the information you learned from your articles. Then introduce your solution.

Student Reflection

What did I learn? How can I buid on my knowledge? How did I perform as a group member? What could I have done better/differently? Am I happy with the final product? Did I enjoy this project?

Assessment

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