Sorry about the lag on my comment. I just came across your post. My kid has games on his phone that text him messages encouraging him to play after an hour of inactivity. The gaming industry is very insidious. Are you aware of any new systems of learning or technologies being developed to help get through to this generation of students?

Besides what you mention it is a known fact that students are using internet search engines to get answers to provided test questions .

I love the fact in the Walking Dead Series. There are no cell phones. How many shows can get away with that? I would take a zombie over a cell phone any day My frivolous thoughts.

I was the last man on america to own a cell phone. I use the camera and music more than the phone connection but is what it is. Maybe I refused to date just to avoid the "what are you doing?" question and my response "I was doing until you interrupted me". I still walk out of the door without it often enough. Still I recognize the need in today society and how grateful I am to live most of my life without the little "dingy". To me been available 24/7 is not romance is prison.

Whilst I would not disagree that cell phones in the classroom can be detrimental, is it not even more a case of (lack of) self/school discipline that students are unable to switch them off while on school time/premises?

stupid people with the world at there fingertips.

Three term Mayor Michael Bloomberg initiated the ban and deBlasio lifted it

Worse than cell phones: common core. My sympathies

Wow... what the public don't know! I hate to even think the riots that would happen if the phones were banned from school.

Banning cell phones in schools seems unenforceable. It seems it would be easier to jam the signals within school grounds.

it is probably illegal but they should be checked at the door or kept in their lockers

Wow. So sad and frustrating. Do you know of anything we can do to start making a difference in this area?

My argument against cell phones in school is that it takes you out of your learning environment.

That’s what happens when you give unfetter d access to immature teenagers, but that’s what our society does regularly. I teach in Texas schools and cell phone use is a pain.

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