Reflecting on Educational Technology: AI and Cell Phones in the Classroom

This week’s debates encouraged me to think more critically about the role technology plays in education. While the topics; AI technologies will revolutionize education and Cell phones should be banned in the classroom focused on different issues, they both emphasised the same underlying challenge: how do we integrate technology into education in ways that enhance […]

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A.I. & Cell Phones : Flawed Tools for Imperfect Classrooms

I found both of this week’s debates to be lively and, unsurprisingly, divided in the pre- and post-debate votes. The use of A.I. and cellphones in classrooms is something many teachers have been struggling with for a while, even if we can find useful applications for them. Those experiences are often stronger than whatever the … Continue reading A.I. & Cell Phones : Flawed Tools for Imperfect Classrooms

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Banning or Bridging? What is the answer to cellphones in schools?

Cellphones have been an ongoing issue in education since they became more widely available. I remember being a teenager in high school and using T9 to text my friends under my desk without the teacher seeing. Phones have become more capable and distracting in the 20 years since my high school years and have become

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