Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: BYOD Our school has a BYOD (Bring your own device) rule. This allows the students to utilize their own form of technology during class. Due to the fact that 99% of the teachers are okay with this rule and allow the students to play on their cell phones once their classwork is completed, my kids are constantly checking their phones for messages from the students in other classrooms. I am in 8th grade, would it be a good idea for me to set up a station on the back wall where the students have to place their phones until it is approved by me for them to use them? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Cell phones are a hard issue these days in schools. Something that i do in my 12th grade English class is that i incorporate cell phones into my lesson and circulate the room to ensure that the phones are being used for academic use only. At the beginning of class i ask for a time keeper and signal person. They know that when 30 minutes of academic instruction is up they get 5 minutes of free cell phone use then 25 minutes of academic instruction time. If the students use their phone for anything other than academic use they are required to turn their cell phone in during the 5 minutes of free time. This has worked very well and i don't have an issue with cell phones in my class.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: I agree Rated On: February 21, 2019 2:01 am Rated By: Lawrence Poluchowicz