Why+CellEdu?

=Why do we need CellEdu?= Jessica Logan............................................ Vanessa Hudgens (Wiki, 2009)

Jessica Logan finished high school last year and went on national television with her face and voice distorted to warn other girls about the potential consequences of taking naked photos of themselves, a mistake American Actress and Singer Vanessa Hudgens made later. But two months later, after attending a funeral for another teen who had committed suicide, Jessica went home and took her own life. (Lemondrop, 2009) [|Read the original article.]

Many of you have read about the many tragedies that have occured with cell phones in the classroom, i.e. texting, sexting, video taping fights at school and posting them on the Internet, video taping teachers, and other abuses.

Why is it that we teach student's the dangers of the Internet and yet ignore our educational responsibility when it comes to cell phones, VoIP, and SMS?

What we need to do?
1. Teach Cell Phone, VoIP, and SMS protocol for the safety of our students. 2. Teach NETS-S for the integration of technology education of our students. 3. We need to utilze this ubiquitous tool for collaboration and instruction. 4. It is the student's favorite communication and learning modality. 5. It will save public education millions of dollars. Imagine no hubs, switches, drops, furniture, equipment, and no repair. 6. Some schools systems have already embraced this cutting edge technology and are able to reward students for work done with extra minutes for personal calls to their friends. Now that is a wonderful incentive. Please view the "Million" as an exemplar.

LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES
With cost concerns squeezing districts out of 1-to-1 computing programs, a once unthinkable solution is now in play: allowing students to bring their own laptops, PDAs, and—heaven help us—cell phones.

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Chancellor Klein Launches "Million" Motivation Campaign 02/27/2008
Between Education and Success**
 * Initiative Will Include a Messaging and Mentoring Program to Support Students and Reinforce Connections

The Million. [|Read the original article.]

=Why do we need to include VoIP in education?=

Here is one good reason to include VoIP in education. According to Science Daily (2009),

"Helping middle school students with their homework may not be the best way to get them on the honor roll. But telling them how important academic performance is to their future job prospects and providing specific strategies to study and learn might clinch the grades, according to a research review."

"Parents' involvement in school events still had a positive effect on adolescents' achievement, Hill said (2009), but not as much as parents' conveying the importance of academic performance, relating educational goals to occupational aspirations and discussing learning strategies."  Hill et al. **Parental involvement in middle school: A meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. **. //Developmental Psychology //, 2009; 45 (3): 740 DOI: [|10.1037/a0015362]