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On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:53 PM, Catherine Wyman <cwyman@xcp.org> wrote:
> One more thought...
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> Someone from Google told me the other day that I have more computing
> power in my iPhone than they had in the Apollo missions.
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> Why do we want to take that computing power out of the students' hands
> when they get to school?
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> Catherine
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> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Vinnie Vrotny <vvrotny@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you to all who have replied. I have collected many cell phone polic=
ies
>> from the public schools in my area as well. I will be sharing these out i=
n
>> the next few days. I am overwhelmed right now with just getting my school=
up
>> and functional.
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>> I have begun to work up a mock policy which builds a postive use of cell
>> phones. The policy that I am trying to help guide is one for our high
>> school, so we have to be considerate of the lower grades and a prohibitio=
n
>> of the cell phone during the day, at this point in time until we are read=
y
>> to deal with them. Maybe my small, SMART, and Mobile presentation that I
>> gave at the Laptop Institute should be what I talk about to my Middle Sch=
ool
>> faculty on Thursday.
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>> As a teaser, the policy I want to build is focused on the high expectatio=
ns
>> of responsible use. I am trying to craft it not to be rule drive for the 2=
0%
>> who negatively impact the community. I would rather focus on the 80% of t=
he
>> students who would be engaged and currently responsibly uses the
>> technology.
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>> This will end up as a blog post (vvrotny.org) and I will let you know whe=
n I
>> am done.
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>> V
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