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100 school days - a conclusion
By Christian Neff | Dec 22, 2009
Four months ago, distributed I consider the new students the iPhone and really had no idea what would send me. Because the news magazine 10vor10 to the start of the project, a contribution sent, was the iPhone project all of a sudden nationally known and has some fierce debate . I was subsequently confronted with it, react to all sorts of accusations can not. The report by 10vor10 suggested, maybe something on purpose, that the children can consume uncontrolled sites and phone calls constantly allowed. These two charges can rebut the critics, I now. On the one hand during the lesson and do not phone outside of class very little (see blog entry ), on the other hand I can attest to the children of controls because they are exemplary of the scheme "I am not looking for pornographic, violent and sexual sides. If I go to such a page by chance, I leave it immediately and report it to the teacher "hold..
Contract
Very often I had heard that the children are already finding ways and opportunities to young people to consume content. With such a suspicious attitude to growing children may already be true. Since I teach, I try to treat students as an equal counterpart, which will always behave correctly, and you learn something. In this way, it needs support from time to time and also the memory of certain barriers, then it works very well. A child needs the confidence of adults, not a fundamental distrust. By mutual trust, we have a contract drawn up and a lot of time spent very much. Probably there are a lot more suspicious of adults who do not trust the children's compliance with the rules - after two months of the contract, may I say that there have been no serious violation against it. I do not trust the children in the future to compliance with the Treaty.
Teaching
We are, despite temporal overhead for the contract and the media-education (for example, mobile professionals ) in the curriculum on track. I have gone through all the content as with previous classes and the performance tests are good to be very good. The iPhone was, as expected in the run also, to a further teaching material and is used wisely. The students practice the 1 × 1, Franz-cramming and English vocabulary, practice dictations via podcast, information on the Internet and check the spelling in the dictionary. These things make the way, many students voluntarily and at home. In addition, activities are still many other programs and the iPhone has been carried out with a few examples: iMotion , school trip , Animoto review (to follow). seen by me from the students in the range 1 × 1 and the pronunciation of French are much better than previous classes. This subjective impression, I will treat in a later blog posting.
Communication
I have to the current class is a very good relationship and more diverse contacts. After five months I have already received twice as many e-mails as in the previous classes in two years! Students to share me and their classmates on her life and I find valuable to our relations with each other. We exchange ideas often via chat or messages on Whatsapp. If something did not work smoothly, I inform the parents more quickly, because I can achieve good iPhone via the child's parents. And to all the critics: yes, we also speak normally and often without an iPhone with one another - even more often, because thanks to the chat contacts, and e-mails Whatsappmeldungen have more contact points that we want then discuss each even verbally.
Complaint
A club called " gigahertz "has the 10vor10 report against our project filed a complaint with the Education Committee due to which, however, did not occur was. The association accuses us that we hurt children intentionally negligent. Paradoxically, students know my students above average on adverse health aspects of mobile telephony and one other hand, can protect yourself - do it the same age cell phone user is not likely. The handling of this complaint and the pressure on me as a teacher, but also to the students and their parents was quite stressful. I am glad that support the principal, the school board, the municipal council and the Education Committee of our project. I wish more critics of the dialogue, rather than confrontation.
Equal Opportunities
One aspect of the iPhone project that I did not expect in advance, is the increased opportunity. Children who can count on less support at home, thanks to the iPhone have better opportunities. It was far more difficult for a foreign-language child to practice dictation, because the parents could not read. With the iPhone you always have access to the latest podcast. The same applies to the foreign languages English and French - not all have parents who speak those languages.
Conclusion
Short and sweet: I would start the project again and look forward to the coming months.
Topics: experience , iPhone | 9 Comments »
Dec 22, 2009 at 7:48
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Dec 22, 2009 at 8:36
This has the complaint usually two reasons. Either as a competitor makes the annoyance of his equipment could not accommodate, or they are just people who have the pure envy and it does not allow you to teach as progressive and forward-looking. I would definitely come to you, if there was a possibility and informed by these means a lot.
Dec 23, 2009 at 5:34
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Dec 23, 2009 at 7:00
Great project, it was terrific. This is the wind that blows in the future hopefully more often through the musty schools.
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Dec 25, 2009 at 2:12
... Children are often the "better" (read trusting) adult! great that you go on in spite of gigahertz, because you trust the children that they are dealing with the i-phone to operate properly. they know very determined to appreciate. I'd take time wonder what would happen if 20 adult would offer the same. they were also intended as "correct" and would thereby learn something.
Dec 25, 2009 at 5:45
Class project. I go to school and even consider this type of teaching is very good. In particular, the independent learning, in which students can edit, for example, French spoken texts alone and at their own pace. I also find it very important that children learn already in this young age to deal with technical equipment, given that in today's time is provided in almost all professions.
Well, I think that was selected for the project, an iPhone, since it is served by all mobile phones to probably the easiest and with the App Store thousands of educational programs such as "mental arithmetic" or "iVocabulary" offers.
Much continued success with this great, forward-looking project.
Dec 27, 2009 at 12:40
Among many positives I find particularly valuable to the effect that trust between teachers and children is created.