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This bugs Mobile Tool
- Company Taser, which is generally known for electric stun devices, have created a tool to monitor the use of mobile phones.Taser wants to help the parents to take over the phone settings children.

"Essentially we took the traditional parenting into mobile-paced world," said chairman and founder of Taser, Tom Smith, the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, Friday (8/1/2010), when the company's new product launches.

"Because by giving your phone to your child, you do not know with whom they talk, SMS, or what images they send, and others," said Smith.

Tool called "Mobile Protector" that can show all the calls and messages out of your child's phone on the screen, then you can listen to the conversation or block certain numbers. The device can be connected to your home phone komputeratau.

"At first you can control completely, but as the children got older and could be trusted then you can begin to loosen control," said Smith.

The device can indicate when an unknown number into your child's phone. "Just one button click you can block the call, or even take over before answering the phone forwarded to your child." While the numbers have entered the list of 'OK' will not raise warning again.

But, according to Smith, when to listen to your child's phone conversation, there will be a warning on a cell phone, too, because this is not a tool for spying, but it requires a two-way cooperation. All the SMS and MMS can also be filtered.

This tool can also disable your kids cell phone for a while. So if your child is one tough choice but told him to take disciplinary action to the room is to disable a cell phone, and you do not have to waste time arguing and fighting again seized his cell phone, just off of the "Mobile Protector" course.

Even the GPS device also allows you to track the presence of children on their cell phones. So in addition to watching your child's behavior, this tool can also be useful in emergencies like to track missing children ..



Teaching Use phone, very cool

High school pupils were sitting waiting for the task from their Spanish language teacher, Ariana Leonard. "Take out your cell phone," he said in Spanish.The teenager was also issued a variety of colorful cell phone, no missed iPhone and Sidekick. They are divided into groups and send them SMS Leonard speak Spanish, "Find something green,"; "Going to the canteen,"; "Berfotolah with the school secretary."

Leonard High School Class of Wiregrass Ranch in Wesley Chapel, the middle-class district in suburban Florida, 30 miles north of Tampa, madalah one class in America who began leaving the old regulations that prohibit cell phone use while studying.

Them, and instead use this technology for learning in the classroom. Vocabulary lesson of Spanish town packed in a hunting game digitally. SMS is also used to remind students to complete homework.

"I can do things with my phone, so why not be used to teach as well?" Said Leonard, "Something like a cell phone in their daily life have fun, to give them new alternatives for learning outside the classroom."

During this very dikhawatrikan that students can use their phones to cheat or taking indecent photographs. But as these technologies become cheaper, more sophisticated, and more ingrained in the lives of the students' mentality began to change as well.

"This use of children's love of the latest technology," said Dan Domevech, director of the nonprofit American Association of School Administrators. "Children are more motivated to use their mobile phone for educational purposes."

The phone is now comparable to a small computer - can check email, do a search on-line, and recording podcasts. While most schools in the area can not provide computers for each student.

"Because of the news of the ban on mobile phones and how negative influences cell phone, most people do not think that the phone can be used in a positive and educational," says Liz Kolb, author of "From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning" (From Toy to be Tool: phone for Learning).

Even the parties that have anti-cell phone policy is tight also admitted that some day they have to change.

"We can not avoid it," said Bill Husfelt, supervisor of the area schools Bay County, northern areas of Florida where 27.000 students are not allowed to use mobile phones in schools. "But first we must better think of ways to prevent the misuse of mobile phones."

71 percent of teenagers in America have been recorded since the early 2008 mobile phone, according to a survey of the project 'Internet and American Life' by the Pew research center. The percentage is consistent with the variations of race, income, or other demographic factors. While many schools count 'gap-tek' than households that already have an intranet network, wireless internet, and each family member already has a smartphone.

Most schools still restrict the use of mobile phones - and indeed a strong reason. Husfelt supervision in the area, seven students recently dealt for fighting on campus, which is triggered by SMS Husfelt.

In other parts of the United States, some teenagers have been arrested for committing a "sexting" - ie taking indecent photographs and pass it through the phone. The students also use their phones to cheat. In a poll, more than 35 percent of teens admitted to having cheated on my cell phone.

But the phone now so flourishing that trouble for all the teachers confiscated.

"Arresting the phone and deal with the students cause conflicts," said Husfelt, "this is too disturbing."

The teachers who have used the phone in their classroom learning in most students claimed that obey their rules. They are reminded that cheating and fights between students must be with or without a cell phone, and if the phone is allowed, the desire to abuse can be reduced.

"Children can cheat with paper and pen. They exchanged cheat, "said Kipp Rogers, Principal of Passage Middle School, Virginia," the paper certainly can not be prohibited. "

Rogers began to use the phone as a tool in the institution a few years ago, when he taught math classes and lack of a calculator for the exam. He let the students use the phone. 12 classes, including math, science, and English, is now using mobile phones as a tool. The students can do research through

SMS or mobile Internet. The teacher can make blogs (web logs, notes on the website). The students could be using mobile phone cameras to take photos and put them on school work.

Classes are often divided into several groups, in case there are some students who do not have a phone.

In Pulaski, Wisconsin, approximately 210 kilometers north of Milwaukee, a Spanish language teacher, Katie Titler has assigned his students to record their voice on the phone to test discourse.

"Particularly for foreign language lessons, this is very good way to assess the ability of speaking in formal or informal, which are routinely difficult because of the large classes and limited time," explained Titler.

Jimbo Lamb, a mathematics teacher in a school of about Annville-Cleona, in south central Pennsylvania, told the students to answer questions via their mobile phone in an internet poll site. He could instantly know the number of students who understand.