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Get Your Class Back! Free Your Class from Cell Phones in 5 Minutes

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Welcome to a class in Cell Phones Anonymous! Rid students of their addiction with an easy, positive reinforcement, two-step program: turn them off and put them in a box at the front of the classroom. Each day they participate, they receive extra credit points.

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Instructional Ideas
  • Check your school policy on cell phones in the classroom
  • Have class members research current information about the negative health effects of the electromagnetic energy fields generated by cell phones
Classroom Considerations
  • Designed for and most appropriate for college level psychology classes
Pros
  • The paper includes a description of the activity, an evaluation of the activity, results of a student questionnaire on the activity, and comments from participants' essays 
Cons
  • None