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“a disruption should always be a bigger headache to the student than to you as a teacher.”

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https://www.gradelink.com/blog/6-top-tips-for-managing-technology-in-the-classroom         Establish an Electronics Policy

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https://www.gradelink.com/blog/6-top-tips-for-managing-technology-in-the-classroom         Establish an Electronics Policy

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Create Consequences Without Disrupting Classwork

Use Key Phrases to Restore Student Attention

Look Over Their Shoulders

Put Students to Work

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1) Establish an Electronics Policy

create and post electronic contracts around room

2) Create Consequences Without Disrupting Classwork

take away technology; transfer them to paper and pencil; or partner them up with other partner; monitor on hub

3) Use Key Phrases to Restore Student Attention

"All eyes on me" or "close your device"
OR put in lock mode in hub

*4) Look Over Their Shoulders
(Class Hub)

Move Around

*5) Begin Assignments “Offline”

Lock out first

6) Put Students to Work

Give students extensions. Let students become the technology experts.

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5 Tips for Managing Computers in the Classroom

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5 Tips for Managing Computers in the Classroom

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1. Be positive!
2. Circle the room.
3.  Require that students pay full attention during critical parts of the lesson.
4.  Be sure students have access to explicit written instructions.
5.  With that being said, when students do have questions , they should be required to ask at least 2 classmates for help before the teacher.

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Classroom management strategies for laptops

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Classroom management strategies for laptops

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1. Always plan ahead
2. Room setup: Functional desks and seating arrangements that encourage student collaboration
3. Manage student's "on task-ness" by asking them to "stick em up". When you say this students put hands in the air and you check screens.
4. Continually structure your lessons so that they are student-centered.

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Detailed expectations and appropriate use

Walk the classroom

Software that allows you to see student computers

Create a sense of value for the technology to help keep machines nice.

Students in Charge = More respect

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Tips for Managing Laptops in the Classroom

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Tips for Managing Laptops in the Classroom

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Give your students a brief explanation of your device policy and explain why you don't allow students to use devices all of the time.

Students don't process information as well when they type notes vs. handwriting notes

Have students make a list of reasons they may not want to have their laptops during class when they need to pay attention to other tasks

http://at.blogs.wm.edu/tips-for-managing-laptops-in-the-classroom/

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News flash: Student laptops and phones can be annoying in the college classroom. Old news, right? But still news that instructors have to deal with more and more. We can ban devices, allow them, or figure out something in between - there's no shortage of advice and policies in managing their use. Over the past few months, I've been seeing a lot of articles, blog posts, and other bits on the Web about laptop policies, and I've found some excellent advice on figuring out what might work best for you.

It's All About Attention and Distraction

"Attention" (and its corollary "distraction") are the major players of the difficulties with managing laptop use. As we all have experienced by now, laptops have the potential to distract the student using the device, the students nearby, and the instructor, eroding that most important piece of being able to learn: Focus.

NYU professor Clay Shirkey suggests that laptops and phones are devices engineered to distract, since their operating systems and social media platforms depend on getting consumers' attention. Shirkey, who teaches social media theory and practice, sees himself as unable to compete with these objects and their software's ability to snag a user's attention while in the classroom. He says:

I've stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with various influences, the largest of which is their own propensity towards involuntary and emotional reaction.

People, he suggests, are biologically unable to resist the ways that our devices are designed to get our attention. As a result, he sees "student focus as a collaborative process," and that it's part of his job to help increase students' chances of being able to focus on the course materials and what's going on in the classroom, rather than what's going on out in the ether of the Internet.

So, what is one to do if we're up against corporate-designed distractions that we cannot hope to compete with?

Make Your Device Policy a "Teaching Moment"

Anne Curzan, an English professor at the University of Michigan (and a blogger for The Chronical) gives her students a brief explanation of her device policy on the first day of class. She identifies with the students (because who isn't tempted to check their phone or laptop if it's out during a meeting?) and explains the rationale for not allowing laptops, including recent studies about how students tend to not process information as well when typing notes versus handwriting them.

I've also heard of faculty/instructors having discussions the first week or two of class about the course's device policy in order to let students be in on the decisions about using these kinds of technologies in the classroom. I've had this approach (having a discussion with students) work well for other kinds of classroom management issues, so I suspect it would also work for device policies.

Another way to turn class device policies into a teaching moment is to assign articles about the relationship between laptop use and student performance as required reading at the beginning of the term. Dan Rockmore, who's a computer science and math professor at Dartmouth, does this in his courses, and shifts the issue from that of students having laptops out in class or not to the broader objective of having students "think critically about the use of technology in their lives and their education." Enabling students to understand why they might not want to have their devices out during class helps model the kind of critical thinking that instructors want students to develop during their time as students.

So...What Kind of Device Policy Should I Have?

Of course, the answer to that question is up to you as an instructor. I've had success in my own courses with requiring students who still want to use laptops to speak with me privately about why they need to do so. If a student does this, I'll let them use their laptop, but for all students who use them in class, I tell them that they must have their WiFi turned off. Others who are more tolerant of laptop use might require students who want to use them to sit in the back of the class (in a lecture) or sit all on one side of the classroom, to minimize the "second-hand" distraction of laptops. I think it's best to be flexible, and of course, be more strict on paper via the syllabus and relax the policy if need be. I did this in a discussion course that had a lot of readings up on Blackboard to save students the cost of printing everything out. That ended up working well, even in a discussion, especially since this meant more students accessed the readings to make their points.

Ultimately, laptop and device policies come down to thinking about how instructors can provide students with the most effective learning environment - and what that environment is depends on the course, the type of school, the students of a particular class or section, and, of course, the instructor's philosophies about teaching and learning. So, the question is: What'll help you help the students learn the material best and how can you help them help themselves?

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Tips for Managing Laptops in the Classroom - Academic Technology

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News flash: Student laptops and phones can be annoying in the college classroom. Old news, right? But still news that instructors have to deal with more and more. We can ban devices, allow them, or figure out something in between - there's no shortage of advice and policies in managing their use.

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Tips for Student Routines with Computers:
1) Teach students to use the same computer every time.
2) Give instructions BEFORE students get on the computers
3) If you need to give directions while students are at their computers, walk students through the steps at a quick pace
4) Focus on maintaining a calm demeanor
5) Make sure important websites and passwords are displayed and set up clear procedures for troubleshooting
6) Always have something for students to do when they finish early
7) Have an alternate activity planned in case something goes wrong with your lesson
8) Give meaningful, engaging assignments, preferably ones that allow students to work at their own pace

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Project ClassHub so all students can hold each other accountable for off task work and share easily

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MANAGING MOBILE DEVICES IN THE CLASSROOM - University of Denver

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MANAGING MOBILE DEVICES IN THE CLASSROOM - University of Denver

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Such access encourages multitasking by students, what Linda Stone calls “continuous partial attention.”

Benefits:  automate routine tasks,  specialized software for students with unique needs, access to relevant information, group work

Strategies for managing:
collaboratively create a social contract,  ask them to document their own attention during class,  allow only a few (rotating) students per class session to take notes to be shared with the entire class.

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*Movement=accountability. Teachers should be moving around the room to see that students are on task.
*If students are off task take up the computer and provide paper and pencil.
*Establish acceptable use practices from the beginning.
*Use quick transition words like "flat, 🤬, close or close app"
*make sure you can see all screens

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“That shift is one of the most challenging for teachers to make,” says Lalbeharie, “the move from being the bearer of knowledge to the facilitator of student knowledge.” 

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“That shift is one of the most challenging for teachers to make,” says Lalbeharie, “the move from being the bearer of knowledge to the facilitator of student knowledge.” 