Implications and Teaching Opportunities for Camera Use in Teaching and Learning.

Outline
1. Part A
-How phones and cameras impact students and teachers.
-How phones and cameras impact school and education.
2. Part B
-How can we use cameras and phones in teaching students.

The use of phones with cameras in classrooms has become a headache for most teachers. Because of students taking pictures of tests and cheating, many schools have banned phones from the classrooms. However, with the rise of students who grew up with phones, teachers will need to incorporate these tools into the classroom. Since phones will be so wide spread, teachers and students will have to come to some agreement about the proper use of these phones. Teachers would have to remember to consider how phones could be used, and the teachers would need to teach students how to use the phones for educational purposes.

The education and school systems will need to also incorporate the use of student phones into how information is shared. Because of the camera message system in phones, school systems could send updates and information pictures, forms, and other things to students and parents. Students continuous use of smart phones will require school systems to adjust to reach their students. Also, the way teachers teach would have to evolve to incorporate cameras on phones or tablets. Education will have to include more technology based learning, and this type of education will require individuals who are unfamiliar with technology to learn it. With the steady increase of students who own phones with cameras, education and school systems will have to incorporate this technology into the everyday workings of the system.


To incorporate the camera technology into my classroom by giving scavenger hunts where students have to find certain objects relating to the literature we are going over in class. Also, to meet standard ELA2013(11), students can do a group project to collect pictures that represent the literary information that backs up their reflection, analysis, and research of a text. The students could setup their information and then go and take pictures that support their stance. Students could also use their camera to record a commentary video on the text being discussed. This project could be applied to standard ELA2013(11) that requires students to do small research projects.



Source:flatclassroomproject.org