Blog #20

Blog 20:  Post a statement of the focus for your essay (what you hope to show) followed by sections of your data + your analysis where you make a series of points related to that focus.  If you aren't sure what to post => just post a statement of what you want to show and sections of data which you think show or are related to your focus.  In class, we will help you strengthen and develop your "evidence" based on your data.

Focus: Can incorporating phone technologies in the classroom be beneficial to the students and teachers?

Sections/Outline for Draft:
1. Introduction 
2. State about E and why she was a perfect candidate 
3. Explain E's excerpts 
4. Discuss Article about texting and papers
5. Discuss ways and times teachers can appropriately incoporate phone technologies and why it is beneficial for the students and teachers 
6. Conclude with overview of facts mentioned throughout 

**I pretty much have it outlined as to what I want to discuss, please let me know if I am on the right track, thank you! 

Blog #19

Blog 19: post drafty writing for your introduction (the more writing you post, the more feedback I can offer)

Focus: How incorporating phone technologies into the classroom can benefit students and teachers

Draft Introduction:

Phone technologies are increasing practically by the second, incorporating these new technologies in the classroom would definitely benefit not only the students but the teachers as well. Although new ways to discover technologies are being discovered everyday, teachers who begin to incorporate are finding that the students are enjoying and learning more with the technology uses. So many people, especially teachers, believe that phone use should not be present in the classroom at all and this opinion should be given a second look. In this essay I will state the reasons why phone technologies should be incorporated into the classrooms. 

Blog #18

Establish E’s authority as an appropriate person to interview

State E’s positions regarding the appropriateness (or not) of phone technology in the classroom

Identify E’s reasons for the above positions

Give examples of what she sees as good use-“bad” use of phone technologies in the classroom

E was appropriate to interview because of her obvious knowledge about the subject at hand. Originally The subject had something to do with texting in the classroom and E is a college professor for both undergraduate and graduate students. She teaches at Kean and Rutgers University to both virtual and live students, all of these credentials made her an obvious fit for the interviewee. 

E seems like she is pretty set on incorporating phone technology (when appropriate) in the classroom. 

She discusses something called BYOD (bring your own device) and says how classrooms should be incorporating phone technology. 

Now a days everything is getting off the paper and right onto the computers, ipads and tablets, so why not do the same thing in the classrooms? Making students tech savy will definitely be benefiting, but finding the middle and not always allowing them to do everything on the tablets is also a big plus too! 

E states that when students are being rude and using their phone for social media or communicating with friends it is obvious that it is the wrong time to be on a cellphone, however E also states that when using an ipad, phone or computer to take notes or look something up it should be more than acceptable. Basically finding the middle/gray area and not taking advantage is the main conflict.  

A. 
G: so you would never want your students to use their phones for note taking or
E: see that’s an entirely different thing, im actually um cause I study, my big thing is uhh, my dissertation is going to be on video games and learning in the classroom and I am very much into technology and teaching teachers how to use technology effectively. Specifically um a big thing that has come out now besides like ipad apps is such is like twitter and things like that which is obviously ya know a prevalent phone usage and uh things things that you can do on the phone and you know the whole BYOD or bring your own device movement would not be happening if students didn’t have cell phones. Because they may not have internet or word or access to something in the classroom like one to one initiative  or at home but a lot of them tend to have top of the line smart phones. So, that said I am a huge advocate of using the cellphone in class when appropriate, I have not used it as much because believe it or not I have gotten some push back from my students. Um the first class that I taught um last spring with uh whats it called, cyberspace. They said to me that they hated facebook, they hated twitter and the only thing that they liked was instagram and they..

B.

G: um I don’t know im going off on a tangent and then going to do some analysis and then decide

E: yeah that’s okay that is usually how research starts I was thinking to myself on the way here im not really exactly sure what direction she is going in but I know ill give her enough to think about lots of different things

G: laughs

E: laughs yeah but I will say that as far as notetaking goes, ive done it. When I was still taking classes for um my phd like back in uh I started back in 2009 and I remembered thinking and sitting in the classroom and now I have an ipad and we haven’t had stuff like that before and um I would carry my laptop, most of the times I carry my laptop now. Now I have a mac so that’s lighter than the laptop, the ipad is lighter than all of that but I had you know my 3g iphone and I would take notes and I was always thinking to myself, the professors are going to think im texting. And I would purposely put it down so they could see the little yellow notepad because I did not want them to think I was being disrespectful. Because I know that if I was the professor, and this is before I was even teaching face to face, I would not them thinking that I was being disrespectful beasically. So if my students were taking, you know sometimes I will give them looks and they will be like no its notes see, and they will show me and im like okay I didn’t say anything but the fact that they are on top of that to me says okay I know that you are not like texting under your desk or whatever, so I am not against it because I am a tech advocate and that is not going to change I don’t think. Um I don’t know I just kind of found the fact that you were talking specifically about notetaking interesting. Im like im wondering how did that come about.

C.

E: see that’s an entirely different thing, im actually um cause I study, my big thing is uhh, my dissertation is going to be on video games and learning in the classroom and I am very much into technology and teaching teachers how to use technology effectively. Specifically um a big thing that has come out now besides like ipad apps is such is like twitter and things like that which is obviously ya know a prevalent phone usage and uh things things that you can do on the phone and you know the whole BYOD or bring your own device movement would not be happening if students didn’t have cell phones. Because they may not have internet or word or access to something in the classroom like one to one initiative  or at home but a lot of them tend to have top of the line smart phones. So, that said I am a huge advocate of using the cellphone in class when appropriate, I have not used it as much because believe it or not I have gotten some push back from my students. Um the first class that I taught um last spring with uh whats it called, cyberspace. They said to me that they hated facebook, they hated twitter and the only thing that they liked was instagram and they..

G: that is the new thing

E: yeah that is like the one thing that I don’t really get into, my sister is into it, I have friends that are really into it but that is the one thing that I just never got into. So basically the whole thing with like having um I was very surprised that my students were you know like anti social networking, using their phone, that sort of thing because they were more concerned with you know um maybe instagram or whatever else. When I tried to get them to use twitter in the classroom they were kind of like complaining to me about it and im like really like this is that horrible. Some of them understood but others were just like no. sorry I kinda went off

D.

E: laughs yeah but I will say that as far as notetaking goes, ive done it. When I was still taking classes for um my phd like back in uh I started back in 2009 and I remembered thinking and sitting in the classroom and now I have an ipad and we haven’t had stuff like that before and um I would carry my laptop, most of the times I carry my laptop now. Now I have a mac so that’s lighter than the laptop, the ipad is lighter than all of that but I had you know my 3g iphone and I would take notes and I was always thinking to myself, the professors are going to think im texting. And I would purposely put it down so they could see the little yellow notepad because I did not want them to think I was being disrespectful. Because I know that if I was the professor, and this is before I was even teaching face to face, I would not them thinking that I was being disrespectful beasically. So if my students were taking, you know sometimes I will give them looks and they will be like no its notes see, and they will show me and im like okay I didn’t say anything but the fact that they are on top of that to me says okay I know that you are not like texting under your desk or whatever, so I am not against it because I am a tech advocate and that is not going to change I don’t think. Um I don’t know I just kind of found the fact that you were talking specifically about notetaking interesting. Im like im wondering how did that come about.

E. 

G: do you think she feels the same way about texting in the classroom or like how students use their phones in the classrooms

E: mia got really into electronic literature, she actually taught e lit like I think it was a yar ago. Um about the same time we started working together, she realized what um what I taught and um how much I believe in the idea of um teachers using technology and using it in the classroom and everything else and we sort of both got into it from you know at the same exact times. She’s more of the humanities section cause she is the digital humanities because her background is English, mines education but I was a dual English education here so its part of my background and you know, English is just natural and im around it a lot. But basically so were both into it but from slightly different aspects. That being said, she did electronic literature and she is obsessed with using the phone in the classroom because she would have authors come in.. she would have them tweet conversations and you know like put it up on the board and they would all tweet about readings and then she would try and find the authors of the people that were um writing some of the articles so the students could ask questions directly to them, which I thought was really cool thing, so she is gong ho about it too.

F. 

G: is that the back splash or is that something different

E: um I don’t know how she did it, I mean like I know there is like back channeling and there is tweet chat and there are different ways of like maintaining a conversation using like a hashtag that you know so that way you don’t have to disseminate like 50 thousand conersations for you to follow but um I don’t know exactly what she used I just know that she jumped into it the second she realized like just how cool techonolgoy was and im just like hey there is someone else who likes this as much as I do, so her yes, I don’t know about other people in the department.

G.

G: laughs.. um basically, last question do you feel texting is taking over todays generation

E: um I definitely think that it is becoming like I don’t know, a lot of times people say social networking and you know where is the social part, because we are all like these isolated beings that are sitting in our houses talking to each other through texts and were meeting people online and you know were not, are we going out together, are we doing things together, I think that its definitely helping I would say people because I honestly am not one of those people, I may come off as like really outgoing and stuff like that but the whole idea of meeting people and making friendships and stuff, ill start talking to you if you know you talk to me first but I would say its much easier for me to get to know someone through like reading them almost, and I would say the more uhh high school students and the more that it is used at the earlier grades like the more it is going to sort of take over but I know there is going to be a back lash by people who just don’t understand and I think that is kind of the way everything goes in general and in history and you know people who are just against certain things, and people having rights and things like that, there is always going to be people who are old school about things and that’s going to set into motion sort of things. I think that what it is is that we really need to teach media literacy and being savvy  and knowing when it is appropriate to use these things and you know sort of setting these guidelines. Part of it is parents saying no phone usage or no whatever and part of it is teachers saying it is okay to use it here and when/ if whatever.

G: so appropriate use basically

E: yes exactly, it needs to be, and it needs to be outlined and discussed more its never really talked about and I don’t think it is. I think it is more like no phones are bad, texts are bad. Or yeah im really into the idea of it. But you know that is not going to work, it needs to be more gray

G: yes right now it is black or white.

E: yes exactly

Blog #17

A. 
G: so you would never want your students to use their phones for note taking or
E: see that’s an entirely different thing, im actually um cause I study, my big thing is uhh, my dissertation is going to be on video games and learning in the classroom and I am very much into technology and teaching teachers how to use technology effectively. Specifically um a big thing that has come out now besides like ipad apps is such is like twitter and things like that which is obviously ya know a prevalent phone usage and uh things things that you can do on the phone and you know the whole BYOD or bring your own device movement would not be happening if students didn’t have cell phones. Because they may not have internet or word or access to something in the classroom like one to one initiative  or at home but a lot of them tend to have top of the line smart phones. So, that said I am a huge advocate of using the cellphone in class when appropriate, I have not used it as much because believe it or not I have gotten some push back from my students. Um the first class that I taught um last spring with uh whats it called, cyberspace. They said to me that they hated facebook, they hated twitter and the only thing that they liked was instagram and they..

B.

G: um I don’t know im going off on a tangent and then going to do some analysis and then decide

E: yeah that’s okay that is usually how research starts I was thinking to myself on the way here im not really exactly sure what direction she is going in but I know ill give her enough to think about lots of different things

G: laughs

E: laughs yeah but I will say that as far as notetaking goes, ive done it. When I was still taking classes for um my phd like back in uh I started back in 2009 and I remembered thinking and sitting in the classroom and now I have an ipad and we haven’t had stuff like that before and um I would carry my laptop, most of the times I carry my laptop now. Now I have a mac so that’s lighter than the laptop, the ipad is lighter than all of that but I had you know my 3g iphone and I would take notes and I was always thinking to myself, the professors are going to think im texting. And I would purposely put it down so they could see the little yellow notepad because I did not want them to think I was being disrespectful. Because I know that if I was the professor, and this is before I was even teaching face to face, I would not them thinking that I was being disrespectful beasically. So if my students were taking, you know sometimes I will give them looks and they will be like no its notes see, and they will show me and im like okay I didn’t say anything but the fact that they are on top of that to me says okay I know that you are not like texting under your desk or whatever, so I am not against it because I am a tech advocate and that is not going to change I don’t think. Um I don’t know I just kind of found the fact that you were talking specifically about notetaking interesting. Im like im wondering how did that come about.

C.

E: see that’s an entirely different thing, im actually um cause I study, my big thing is uhh, my dissertation is going to be on video games and learning in the classroom and I am very much into technology and teaching teachers how to use technology effectively. Specifically um a big thing that has come out now besides like ipad apps is such is like twitter and things like that which is obviously ya know a prevalent phone usage and uh things things that you can do on the phone and you know the whole BYOD or bring your own device movement would not be happening if students didn’t have cell phones. Because they may not have internet or word or access to something in the classroom like one to one initiative  or at home but a lot of them tend to have top of the line smart phones. So, that said I am a huge advocate of using the cellphone in class when appropriate, I have not used it as much because believe it or not I have gotten some push back from my students. Um the first class that I taught um last spring with uh whats it called, cyberspace. They said to me that they hated facebook, they hated twitter and the only thing that they liked was instagram and they..

G: that is the new thing

E: yeah that is like the one thing that I don’t really get into, my sister is into it, I have friends that are really into it but that is the one thing that I just never got into. So basically the whole thing with like having um I was very surprised that my students were you know like anti social networking, using their phone, that sort of thing because they were more concerned with you know um maybe instagram or whatever else. When I tried to get them to use twitter in the classroom they were kind of like complaining to me about it and im like really like this is that horrible. Some of them understood but others were just like no. sorry I kinda went off

D.

E: laughs yeah but I will say that as far as notetaking goes, ive done it. When I was still taking classes for um my phd like back in uh I started back in 2009 and I remembered thinking and sitting in the classroom and now I have an ipad and we haven’t had stuff like that before and um I would carry my laptop, most of the times I carry my laptop now. Now I have a mac so that’s lighter than the laptop, the ipad is lighter than all of that but I had you know my 3g iphone and I would take notes and I was always thinking to myself, the professors are going to think im texting. And I would purposely put it down so they could see the little yellow notepad because I did not want them to think I was being disrespectful. Because I know that if I was the professor, and this is before I was even teaching face to face, I would not them thinking that I was being disrespectful beasically. So if my students were taking, you know sometimes I will give them looks and they will be like no its notes see, and they will show me and im like okay I didn’t say anything but the fact that they are on top of that to me says okay I know that you are not like texting under your desk or whatever, so I am not against it because I am a tech advocate and that is not going to change I don’t think. Um I don’t know I just kind of found the fact that you were talking specifically about notetaking interesting. Im like im wondering how did that come about.

E. 

G: do you think she feels the same way about texting in the classroom or like how students use their phones in the classrooms

E: mia got really into electronic literature, she actually taught e lit like I think it was a yar ago. Um about the same time we started working together, she realized what um what I taught and um how much I believe in the idea of um teachers using technology and using it in the classroom and everything else and we sort of both got into it from you know at the same exact times. She’s more of the humanities section cause she is the digital humanities because her background is English, mines education but I was a dual English education here so its part of my background and you know, English is just natural and im around it a lot. But basically so were both into it but from slightly different aspects. That being said, she did electronic literature and she is obsessed with using the phone in the classroom because she would have authors come in.. she would have them tweet conversations and you know like put it up on the board and they would all tweet about readings and then she would try and find the authors of the people that were um writing some of the articles so the students could ask questions directly to them, which I thought was really cool thing, so she is gong ho about it too.

F. 

G: is that the back splash or is that something different

E: um I don’t know how she did it, I mean like I know there is like back channeling and there is tweet chat and there are different ways of like maintaining a conversation using like a hashtag that you know so that way you don’t have to disseminate like 50 thousand conersations for you to follow but um I don’t know exactly what she used I just know that she jumped into it the second she realized like just how cool techonolgoy was and im just like hey there is someone else who likes this as much as I do, so her yes, I don’t know about other people in the department.

G.

G: laughs.. um basically, last question do you feel texting is taking over todays generation

E: um I definitely think that it is becoming like I don’t know, a lot of times people say social networking and you know where is the social part, because we are all like these isolated beings that are sitting in our houses talking to each other through texts and were meeting people online and you know were not, are we going out together, are we doing things together, I think that its definitely helping I would say people because I honestly am not one of those people, I may come off as like really outgoing and stuff like that but the whole idea of meeting people and making friendships and stuff, ill start talking to you if you know you talk to me first but I would say its much easier for me to get to know someone through like reading them almost, and I would say the more uhh high school students and the more that it is used at the earlier grades like the more it is going to sort of take over but I know there is going to be a back lash by people who just don’t understand and I think that is kind of the way everything goes in general and in history and you know people who are just against certain things, and people having rights and things like that, there is always going to be people who are old school about things and that’s going to set into motion sort of things. I think that what it is is that we really need to teach media literacy and being savvy  and knowing when it is appropriate to use these things and you know sort of setting these guidelines. Part of it is parents saying no phone usage or no whatever and part of it is teachers saying it is okay to use it here and when/ if whatever.

G: so appropriate use basically

E: yes exactly, it needs to be, and it needs to be outlined and discussed more its never really talked about and I don’t think it is. I think it is more like no phones are bad, texts are bad. Or yeah im really into the idea of it. But you know that is not going to work, it needs to be more gray

G: yes right now it is black or white.

E: yes exactly

Blog #16

Statement of purpose (what you hope to show/discover): devlop this in terms of your data.  Make sure you develop a purpose that your data can actually accomplish.  Whose perspective are you exploring?  What will your participants' perspectives contribute to research on your topic?  Why is that perspective important? 

Detailed statement of your research question(s): you should write questions that you can "ask" of your data.  What does the data show about. . .?  How does my participant describe. . .?  What language patterns occur when my participant talks about. . .?  What connections do I see between the way my participant talks about. . . and cultural stories/assumptions about. . .?  Where does my participant directly state here ideas about. . . ?  Where does s/he imply her ideas about . . .?  What does it mean that she is direct sometimes and indirect other times when she talks about. . .? And so on.

List of the information you need to gather: list any additional "data" you will need to complete your project (do you need to: do follow up interviews?  an observation?  look at some writing samples?  etc?)

A preliminary list of sources (if you need a research essay => let me know.  Send what you have found so far and give me a detailed idea of what you are looking for)

Discussion of any additional data you will need to collect + how you will collect it

Make people aware hat thers hould be a futre with texting in the classroom
Focus: Present and Future of texting in the classroom 

Questions: Is texting effecting the way students write papers?
Is texting in the classroom completley distracting or is it a good thing?
The process of back channeling, when it is used?
The process of having a blog or benefits of having the class to have access to online.
When and how should teachers icorporate texting and back channeling into the classroom?

I need to obtain articles about : texting in the classroom, effects of texting ( in general), benefits of blogs,  back channeling. 

* I am still honestly a little but confused and stressing over this but I will be talking to you to clear things up in class. I'm sorry about all the confusion Ive been having with this. 

Blog #15

Gigi Elshiekh

April 1, 2014

Short Analysis Draft

Texting evolving over time, should it be used in classrooms, will there be a future of texting?

            When beginning to think about how much phones have evolved it is truly amazing. Starting off with the basic flip phone that had a screen and an antenna and transforming to an iPhone and android that come standard with a 10-megapixel camera, makes one realize how far technology has come beyond the years. Back in the day, one did not dream about texting, facebooking, tweeting, or instagramming from their cellphone, let alone use it in a classroom setting. They used it for one thing and one thing only: a phone.

            From the antenna cell phones to iPhones there was instant message and emails evolved in between and many things came as a result of that. So the real question could be, does texting have or should have a place in classrooms today? Although one should not be texting a friend, writing on someone’s Facebook wall, or uploading a picture on instagram in the middle of a lesson, using their phone or iPad for other reasons should not be seen as a bad thing.

            With the way that technology keeps increasing in the real world, it only makes sense to start incorporating technology in the classroom. Now a days students will attempt to text in the classroom even though they know it is wrong and rude. One wise professor had her husband purposely call her on the first day of class and she answered the phone while writing on the board. All of the students looked around confused and annoyed with the professor, but when she got off the phone she explained it was planned and used to make the students realize how rude it is to be on the phone either texting or talking when the professor is lecturing.

            Although students should know not to text in the classroom while the teacher is lecturing, should the students be allowed to use their phones and tablets to take notes and record? Technology today allows for so many advances and those advances should be used in the classrooms as well.  There are so many apps and technology advances in the present day that if they were incorporated and brought into the classrooms they could and would really do students a lot of advantages.

            Teachers now a days see the white and black part of the texting in the classroom, meaning they are really for it or really against it. The important thing is to find the middle and in between. Some teachers would take advantage and have the students use their iPads and phones for everything while some teachers would rather not incorporate any technology in the classroom at all. Seeing the middle area and incorporating technology into lessons should be imperative. The students should not feel as if they can not take full advantage of the technology that is out there for them to use.

            Teachers should be taking workshops, collaborating, and learning how to incorporate texting in the classrooms. Overall it will greatly benefit the students and help them keep up with present day challenges. Studies have shown that students who have teachers that incorporate technology into their lessons have students succeed more in the classroom.

             

           

Blog #14

 Do some more writing about what you will use as a focus for the short analysis project, and how the different excerpts with support/connect to that focus.  If you are stuck - ask questions/give me a hint about what kind of feedback you want as help.

Starting off the project I was completely lost and after the interview I felt a little bit more lost, however, I really do believe my focus for the paper will be appropriateness with texting in the classroom. I will expand on if and when it should be allowed and why future teachers should incorporate it into their classrooms. Many people now adays find texting to be taking over negatively but I want to focus on the positive aspects of it and focus more in the classroom. There can be so much done to make people and teachers see texting positively for future students and I hope that the teachers that are completely against it can reconsider after reading my paper. There is a time and place for everything and texting in the classroom should be integrated in the near future. 

I am a little bit stuck as to where and how to begin my paper but I presume we can and will  discuss more in class and through the blog posts. Thank you!