Wireless Technology
Liz Kolb
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Classroom Connections:Utilizing ReQall, students could use their cell phone as their sole management tool. Besides sending themselves reminder messages with ReQall, it also allows students to send messages to others. For example, students could send messages to their teacher's ReQall accounts. This could be great resource for field trips, when teachers want to check-up on students to make sure they are documenting their learning experience during the field trip. The teacher could ask the student's to ReQall a short message or note concerning different learning experiences, and send the message to the teacher. Furthermore, the message from the student will immediately show up in the ReQall box of the teacher, so the teacher just has to call ReQall from their cell phone. Additionally, all the notes are saved to the students and teacher's ReQall account on the web. All of this can happen in real-time during the field trip.
The following post can be found at the following website:
http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2008/03/reqall-phone-management-tool-for.html
Tango's Response
Liz brings up an interesting concept. Educators assume that all of the student cell phones have access to the internet. This is not necessarily true. Using recall will allow the students can use a text message future to create responses to questions on the field trip. The Recall is better than just regular IM because the teacher can go back and verify the information at a later time.
Tango
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We are also assuming that all students have text messaging on their phones. I would assume that students who have text messaging have parents who realize the cost effectiveness of going with an unlimited package, as most of my students use thousands of text messages a month. Of course, not all of my students have text messaging; only 80%. Services such as ReQall are great if students have access to them, but there are other ways they can make notations, at least to themselves; video, still images, voice recordings, calendar features, and note taking tools can be more accessible as they do not require extra services added to cellular packages.
Only 93% of my students have their own cellphone, which is actually higher than I anticipated, being in a smaller, rural district.
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