Comments on: Mobile phones in the MFL classroom

By: Holly Bates

Holly Bates — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:44:00 +0000

Lot of countries have started allowing restricted usage of mobile devices in classroom.Check out - Mobl21- www.mobl21.com, which is used in many schools in US and does facilitate effective creation and sharing of content

By: Holly Bates

Holly Bates — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:01:41 +0000

So many schools in Europe have adopted the usage of cell phones and the technology has made learning a more pervasive and engaging process.

for e.g- Mobl21 has explored the area of using technology to connect students and teachers better, and facilitate the transfer of content.

By: Holly Bates

Holly Bates — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:01:00 +0000

So many schools in Europe have adopted the usage of cell phones and the technology has made learning a more pervasive and engaging process.

for e.g- Mobl21 has explored the area of using technology to connect students and teachers better, and facilitate the transfer of content.

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By: Aline

Aline — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:12:25 +0000

I have also started getting my students to use their phone to record their speaking assessment (in presence of an adult in our languages office) so that they can then bluetooth the recording to my laptop.
Students love it!
Aline, MFL teacher at NRA in Witham.

By: Aline

Aline — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:12:00 +0000

By: José Picardo

José Picardo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:38:41 +0000

I regularly allow those pupils who ask (they tend to be the older ones) to make a note of the homework on they mobile phones to do so. As Dominic mentions in the main body of the post, above, many of the mobile phones our pupils bring to class have a huge number of applications which we teachers would be terribly short sighted not to take advantage of.

Just the other day, a sixth former (17 years old) brought his homework to class in his Blackberry. Here’s the proof! http://www.twitpic.com/p7tmn

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:38:00 +0000

Just the other day, a sixth former (17 years old) brought his homework to class in his Blackberry. Here’s the proof! http://www.twitpic.com/p7tmn

By: Gisele Amoros

Gisele Amoros — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:58:26 +0000

I’ve started asking students to use their mobile phones in class, although technically they are not allowed.
The first time I’ve asked some yr 7 to video pairs of students practising a simple dialogue.
They loved doing it and I noticed that when they were being filmed they unconsciously made an extra effort on pronunciation.
I tried again with some yr 9 French and got a similar reaction. One student challenged me and asked what was the point of the exercice. I told him about the pronunciation, I also said he could show his parents, some others said they were going to put it on their facebook and I also said that if he didn’t like his performance, he could always press delete and start again.
I ‘ve also asked students with broken hands/arms or some who had “forgotten” their prep diaries to use their phone to type or take a pic of the homework.
A great tool to use in class!

By: Gisele Amoros

Gisele Amoros — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:58:00 +0000