This podcast by Wesley Fryer was very educational of using proper use of text messaging. Rhonda, who is the text message expert, has some excellent ideas about appropriate text messaging. Rhonda is a teacher at Yukon High School at Yukon, Oklahoma. Rhonda has one good limitation to her students on texting her. She mentions to her students NOT to call before 7 am and after 9 pm. Her students use text messaging often. For example, Rhonda said her students sent out a text when she was sick, "We miss you!". Rhonda has basically opened the lines of communication to her studenets.
Through the technology of text messaging, Rhonda said we can understand the students better since that is where the students best relate. Rhonda also believes a blending of learning of inside and outside of school is important. I liked the information and was interesting, but was not excited about the story. I can understand why text messaging is so important to the 21st century students.
So was the texting being used for educational purposes or just being social with the teacher during specific times? I would be a little creeped out if my kids were texting socially with their teacher. A more appropriate solution would be to have a classroom blog were students can communicate with their teacher about things pertaining to their classroom and that parents could also have access to.
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