to teachers ipods and phone are good in class??

[derailed]

I'm taking night classes, and had to make up a class during the day when the high school kids are there.
I used my phone, the teacher kicked me out of the room.

When no kids were looking, I handed him the phone and said "give me hell!"

At the end of class, he handed me back my phone and tore me a new one; "IF I see you using a phone in MY class again, I'll crush it and you can go tell your parents why you need a new one! Well, you know what I mean!"

Oh, the looks on the kids' faces! If he can do that to an adult, they don't stand a chance!

I'm noticing that the kids who have been texting for a large percent of their lives don't know how to communicate face to face very well. Many of them seem quite lost when addressed. I'm concerned.

[DDH]

They are allowed to have them on their person, but not allowed to have them out nor are they suppose to have them on.
He takes it to school, so he has it to call me if I need to come get him.
It's not a necessity only a convenience, so if he gets' caught doing something wrong, it will be taken.

[SadieKate]

I don't think the use of either one belongs in the classroom, but for this girl texting is the least of her problems.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10166100-71.html

[uforgot]

I don't think the use of either one belongs in the classroom, but for this girl texting is the least of her problems.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10166100-71.html

Well, I really don't care for the attitude of the columnist. She seems to think that the school is unreasonable about the phone. Once she was asked for her phone and refused to give it up, it was no longer about having a phone. That's when she crossed into insubordination, there should be no tolerance for that and I'm sure there is a lot that we haven't heard. I also don't care for the fact that stories like this give teens a bad name. I'd say 99% are good, decent kids. At least the ones that I teach. True, they sometimes make bad decisions, but when I ask something reasonable of them, take your hat off, put the phone away, get back on task, they quickly comply and are respectful. When people find out that I teach high school, they are quick to sympathize because they think that teens are so disrespectful. Not true. I like my students and for the most part are fun, enthusiastic and excited about their world and their futures. Then again, they don't live with me, I send them on their way after 50 minutes, so their parents are usually surprised when I tell them how much I enjoy their kids.

[DirtDiva]

We have a sort of unofficial "don't ask don't tell" policy at my school (full primary; 5-12/13 year olds). It's fine for phones to be in bags or whatever, but they don't come into the classroom and they are confiscated if a kid is found using one before 3pm (end of the school day) and a parent has to come and get the phone from the office. iPods and such are the individual teacher's call. Generally speaking, those of us who teach the older kids are a little more lenient, and it's probably because so many of our kids own them by then. For example, in my class it's fine for the kids to listen to mp3 players on bus trips and to listen (through headphones!) to Jango or something similar if they are typing up something on the computer. We do make it very clear to students that any iPods and such that they bring in are entirely their own responsibility and that if they should happen to get broken/lost/stolen, well, tough.