-----Original Message----From: Nielsen Lisa Sent: Wed 11/14/2007 12:12 PM Subject: Google Class Of interest in light of the Google SMS section of the Google Research Apps class. They would be smart to integrate our class in so they could use the phones for educational value :) Reaching Out to Students When They Talk and Text - New York Times
Nov 13, 2007 ... The Bloomberg administration wants to try to convince thousands of lowachieving students that succeeding in school is actually, well, cool. www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/education/13schools.html
Sent: Wed 11/14/2007 2:41 PM Subject: RE: Google Class Lisa I have never said that SMS didn't have an educational value. All I said was that with all the options that Google had for research, wouldn't it be smart to pick one that wasn't banned in the classroom. That's all.... Geesh, I wish I would never have brought it up now.... From: Nielsen Lisa Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:53 PM Subject: RE: Google Class My belief is that we should drive the change rather than follow it. And, as you know you are one of our main drivers ;) That said... The SMS session can be geared to teachers to model to students how they can use their mobile devices as educational tools.