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**Year 2 is all about connections with students**. We are focusing this year on creating PSA's for both students and teachers. As a group we feel it is important to educate both student and teachers on how to properly use cell phones, iPads, or any other technology with respect when sitting in a classroom. Gone are the days of passing notes...

Students are working in school groups to create a PSA. Our first of two PSA is focusing on students. The goal is to create something with humour yet passing on a message that students need to understand about using cell phones with respect in the classroom. These PSAs will be shown at an opportune time when the student body meets together. We are also hoping that the school's administration will encourage student/teacher conversations after the viewing of the PSAs, back in the teacher's classroom.

Our SAG students decided to focus on the following points for their school's PSA:


 * Following the rules and not being a whiny baby
 * Don’t try to just hide the phone and use it
 * Putting them on silence or vibrate
 * Use responsibly
 * Know your teacher’s expectations for cell phone use
 * If you don’t know the expectations, ASK!!!
 * The right time to use cell phones

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//**Conclusion for the year **//

The PSAs were shown at student assemblies near the end of the year. The hopes was to begin creating a discussion among teachers and students, together, in the hopes that a place could be created for each individual classroom, when it came to proper use of cellphones.

The SAG group members reported back, at their final meeting, that lots of positive conversations took place during this time. Some teachers felt that they would rework their course syllabus, for the following year, to include cell phone practices that would be implemented and discouraged within the classroom environment.

All SAG members felt that their voices had been heard as their PSAs had lead to individual classroom conversations between teachers and students, together. They reported that some teachers were more receptive to listening to the students when it came to having a voice in what they would like to see when having cellphones implemented into their classroom. They were not shocked by this as they know that there are still a number of teachers that may have a hard time letting new technologies into their classrooms for fear of the unknown.