Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 28, Monitoring Technology Use

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Technology Information: Applications for Monitoring Technology Use - Flaps Down, Pocket Points and Location

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[00:00:00.330]Coming up on Mobile Learning In The Classroom
[00:00:02.795]Monitoring Technologies.
[00:00:04.829](upbeat electronic music)
[00:00:18.295]Hi, my name is Guy Trainin
[00:00:19.795]And I'm Zoe Falls
[00:00:21.311]And this is Mobile Learning In The Classroom
[00:00:23.708]from Tech Edge and today we're talking
[00:00:25.170]about monitoring technology use and a lot
[00:00:27.267]of teachers and instructors are really
[00:00:28.955]concerned about technology use in the classroom.
[00:00:31.096]Zoe just told me that one of her instructor
[00:00:33.275]asked for no technology in the classroom
[00:00:35.649]which is something you can do although it can
[00:00:37.842]be very problematic especially if you do
[00:00:39.921]want to use some capacities that technology can add.
[00:00:43.344]And one other thing that I want to add
[00:00:46.513]at all ages, but definitely with younger kids
[00:00:49.610]is we actually want to teach kids to
[00:00:51.781]be able to monitor their own technology use
[00:00:54.248]and make decisions, smart decisions, about technology.
[00:00:57.231]And we as adults struggle with it sometimes.
[00:00:59.449]Do I really need to look at my phone right now?
[00:01:02.102]And there are lots of projects and ideas around that.
[00:01:05.258]So if you look for example at Common Sense Media
[00:01:08.871]they've had this campaign about
[00:01:12.426]technology free dinners which,
[00:01:14.213]There we go.
[00:01:15.046]I think is a really good idea.
[00:01:16.130]So you really are looking constantly
[00:01:17.463]for ideas around monitoring technology use
[00:01:20.983]and being really purposeful about
[00:01:22.910]when you're using it and when you're not.
[00:01:24.988]And this is exactly what we're
[00:01:27.087]as teachers, we need to teach.
[00:01:29.818]Because these kids are going in
[00:01:31.124]a very technology rich world and it's
[00:01:32.801]not gonna get less so.
[00:01:34.251]So they need some strategies to think
[00:01:35.861]about when is it appropriate, when is it not.
[00:01:38.223]How do I actually disengage?
[00:01:40.259]Which is really hard.
[00:01:41.229]Very hard.
[00:01:43.327]So the first thing that I see a lot of teachers
[00:01:46.203]do when they're using technology on a regular basis
[00:01:48.465]in their classroom is what I call Flaps Down
[00:01:50.597]and you can call it many other things.
[00:01:52.113]And that's basically taking and making sure
[00:01:54.696]that the screen is actually off
[00:01:56.281]and that's partially because as a teacher
[00:01:57.848]if you're standing in front of your kids
[00:01:59.949]you can't see what they're seeing on on their
[00:02:01.691]screens and that's a way to make sure
[00:02:03.833]that wherever they are, even if they're not
[00:02:06.387]really on anything that they shouldn't be
[00:02:08.721]they're not looking at their screen.
[00:02:10.388]They're looking at you, they're looking
[00:02:11.522]at somebody else presenting or a video
[00:02:13.414]or anything else and with iPads
[00:02:15.352]you just ask it to be face down.
[00:02:17.217]It's the same way, it doesn't mean
[00:02:18.678]necessarily it's turned off
[00:02:20.244]it usually isn't, but it does mean
[00:02:22.342]that your focus goes somewhere else.
[00:02:27.212]Okay and you have one.
[00:02:28.594]So when I was teaching last semester
[00:02:30.858]I had several of my students ask me
[00:02:33.082]if I used Pocket Points.
[00:02:34.640]All right.
[00:02:35.498]And after I stared at them with a blank
[00:02:37.875]face and they were like, no you don't understand,
[00:02:39.411]and they showed me Pocket Points which
[00:02:41.327]is an app that they can get for their phone.
[00:02:43.790]And it's Apple or Android and you download it
[00:02:47.932]and what it does, and I'm gonna show here how
[00:02:50.855]it works from their webpage, is you
[00:02:53.484]open up Pocket Points when you're in class.
[00:02:56.050]And...
[00:02:57.134]I'm downloading it.
[00:02:58.419]And it monitors when you're not using your phone.
[00:03:01.574]Mmm-hmm
[00:03:02.464]So right now we have Pocket Points
[00:03:03.423]running and if I were to turn my phone on
[00:03:05.721]it would stop counting.
[00:03:07.693]Alright.
[00:03:08.526]And so it does it based on
[00:03:09.477]time and as you can see here it fills
[00:03:12.693]up this little present box so you can monitor
[00:03:15.543]how long you've not been using your phone.
[00:03:18.948]And what I noticed with my students
[00:03:20.913]when they were telling me about it is
[00:03:22.746]they would do it for specific rewards.
[00:03:24.512]Mmm-hmm.
[00:03:25.382]So, as you accrue points
[00:03:27.500]and you see here where it shows the gift page
[00:03:29.666]and it targets to where your local community
[00:03:32.204]is so here in Lincoln, one of the things that
[00:03:35.251]I noticed is you can get discounts on Toppers
[00:03:37.316]and you know--
[00:03:38.450]Oh!
[00:03:39.283]And you know money off and I like Toppers
[00:03:40.998]quite a bit so that was a very exciting thing for me.
[00:03:43.875](laughs)
[00:03:44.708]So you have goals that you can set for yourself.
[00:03:45.890]Yeah.
[00:03:46.723]And as a teacher I think especially maybe
[00:03:49.056]for college-aged students it's an easier way to present
[00:03:54.661]Yeah
[00:03:55.596]If you have a specific time where
[00:03:58.129]you're not using their phones or if you want
[00:04:00.312]them on a laptop and not on their phone.
[00:04:03.132]It's a way where they can still do something
[00:04:05.069]that most of them found just through their
[00:04:06.970]peer group but encouraging them to practice
[00:04:09.518]I don't know what you want them to do with technology
[00:04:13.192]Yeah.
[00:04:14.025]In your classroom and I see them setting up
[00:04:19.172]competitions with each other and seeing how
[00:04:21.417]long they can go even outside of class.
[00:04:24.048]So if they're just in the library.
[00:04:25.290]Yeah.
[00:04:26.123]So it doesn't just have to be restricted
[00:04:27.367]to in a class and because it's on their
[00:04:29.753]phone the GPS tracks if they're on campus or off campus.
[00:04:34.320]Mmm-Hmm
[00:04:35.153]So they register with their school
[00:04:35.986]and if they're not on campus Pocket Points doesn't work.
[00:04:38.523]When they're on campus it does work.
[00:04:41.407]And what I like about that and if we extend
[00:04:43.595]that idea and find other apps that do something
[00:04:45.948]similar is that it can actually be used
[00:04:48.911]just for example for doing homework
[00:04:52.368]Mmm-hmm
[00:04:53.267]For other things.
[00:04:54.167]So there are some interesting ways to think
[00:04:55.932]about how you can use some kind of
[00:04:58.166]a point system to support kids being off
[00:05:02.167]because it is hard to disengage once
[00:05:04.424]you're engaged with your phone.
[00:05:06.704]So finding ways to manage that
[00:05:08.707]is really really important.
[00:05:10.519]Another way that you can, as an instructor
[00:05:12.875]or as a teacher at any grade level,
[00:05:15.593]really monitor technology use is by using your location.
[00:05:20.312]So in a classic classroom the teacher stands
[00:05:22.581]in front of the kids and if you
[00:05:24.481]have phones or iPads or laptops
[00:05:27.970]of any kind Chromebooks you don't see
[00:05:30.234]what they're seeing and they can
[00:05:32.015]easily, and they think they're sneaking around
[00:05:34.187](laughing)
[00:05:35.020]really as a teacher you know that they're
[00:05:36.300]not paying attention but you can't see.
[00:05:38.767]And one of the things I'm seeing a lot
[00:05:40.339]of teachers do is reorganizing where they are
[00:05:42.371]in the classroom or they're reorganizing the classroom.
[00:05:45.673]For example I've seen a lot of college instructors
[00:05:48.593]if there is technology use that you want
[00:05:50.439]during the class for example, if you're teaching
[00:05:52.362]writing and you taking some time
[00:05:53.829]you were doing discussion and then each person
[00:05:55.843]goes back to the machine and writes.
[00:05:58.318]The desks are actually organized on the outside
[00:06:02.343]and the the technology is on that outside
[00:06:04.631]where the desks are so when everybody
[00:06:07.162]is discussing things they're actually
[00:06:08.944]in kind of a circle without any desks
[00:06:12.915]or anything else and then when it's time
[00:06:15.301]to write and use technology
[00:06:16.764]everybody turns to the outside
[00:06:18.987]and now you can see that they're engaged
[00:06:22.052]and they're engaged at the appropriate time.
[00:06:24.256]In other classrooms especially
[00:06:25.866]middle schools I work with what they're
[00:06:27.526]doing is they're, all the kids are sitting
[00:06:30.274]and you talk at the beginning of class
[00:06:32.950]in the front and then the teacher
[00:06:34.452]moves all of her stuff or his stuff
[00:06:37.237]to what would be traditionally the back
[00:06:39.735]of the classroom so they can see that
[00:06:41.512]everybody is engaged while they're
[00:06:43.589]actually responding electronically
[00:06:45.575]to what the kids are doing.
[00:06:46.408]So it's a way to keep an eye without
[00:06:48.223]being too police-y about it because there are
[00:06:51.476]apps there are systems
[00:06:53.839]that are actually designed for a teacher
[00:06:56.234]for example if you've got Chromebooks
[00:06:57.182]or laptops or even iPads to be able
[00:07:00.350]to see what they're doing Hapara is one such example.
[00:07:03.937]For me, as a teacher, that makes me
[00:07:06.806]more policeman and less of an instructor
[00:07:08.768]and I don't want to be that.
[00:07:10.487]For some people it seems the way to go.
[00:07:13.320]I don't want to police that much
[00:07:14.908]but I want them to know that I can see what they're doing.
[00:07:17.690]And that helps.
[00:07:18.523]Well there are low-tech tricks
[00:07:20.280]I mean that I know I've used in class
[00:07:22.379]even if it's something as simple as I make them stand up.
[00:07:24.615]Mmm-hmm.
[00:07:25.448]And move in the room.
[00:07:26.281]Yep.
[00:07:27.114]And you know their response to a question
[00:07:28.644]has to be physical.
[00:07:29.597]Yep.
[00:07:30.430]And they get up and move on a spectrum
[00:07:32.352]and that's how they respond or I've
[00:07:34.897]done putting myself at the back of the classroom
[00:07:36.962]'cause in the room I teach in that
[00:07:38.251]happens to be where the white board is.
[00:07:39.976]Using a white board in a technology class
[00:07:41.088]Yep.
[00:07:41.921]really really bothers them at first
[00:07:43.352]Yep.
[00:07:44.185]because they don't quite understand
[00:07:45.117]Why What's going on
[00:07:46.806]Yeah
[00:07:47.639]And because I've shifted the focus
[00:07:49.273]and sort of the feel of the class
[00:07:51.170]Mmm-hmm
[00:07:52.036]They almost engage just to figure
[00:07:54.025]out what's going on.
[00:07:55.409]Yeah.
[00:07:56.242]And it is really important, like anything
[00:07:59.124]with any expectations you should be very clear
[00:08:01.846]about your expectations what's allowed and what's not.
[00:08:05.131]And because kids will try and test the limits
[00:08:10.466]and you want to be sure, and that's at any age
[00:08:13.033]in any classroom, you want to be sure
[00:08:15.262]that you're putting those boundaries around them.
[00:08:17.921]So today on Mobile Learning In The Classroom
[00:08:20.893]we talked about really monitoring
[00:08:23.278]and really shifting kids to self-monitoring
[00:08:26.121]in technology use and we'll see you next time
[00:08:28.439]on Mobile Learning In The Classroom.
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