Cell Phones for Learning and Teaching Math?

What role should technology play in the classroom and in life?

This article sparked 46 reader comments. Some felt that the phones were a distractor to the content...others felt that it might be engaging for the students.

I have found that varying the delivery of content keeps students engaged. Perhaps the smartphone as one mode of instruction might supplement other techniques and devices (group work, teach back, TI-83/4, Excel, etc.).

Many students of Generation Text have come to depend on technology perhaps too much -- although coming from the Dinosaur Age of learning without calculators (because they were not available), it is hard to imagine growing up with these types of technology.