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Notre Dame High School in Sheffield, UK, is planning to allow students to bring their phones and other mobile devices into the classroom. I was pleased to see in this article that Mick Brooks, of the NAHT, is taking a non-Luddite stance on this. Unsuprising: he was one of the panel at the recent launch of the Cambridge Review of the Primary Curriculum, which I wrote about recently (http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2009/10/22/what-young-people-can-do-and-7-implications-of-that.html).\nPaul Haigh, the Deputy Head mentioned in the article, and I exchanged messages just after the Handheld Learning Conference, and it's good to see his work being picked up by a national newspaper.

I wonder if (a) this is also true of the UK and (b) if so, what would Baroness Greenfield make of it? The summary suggests that the increase in the use of the internet and mobile phones does NOT lead to social isolation, but instead: "is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. And, when we examine people's full personal network - their strong and weak ties - internet use in general and use of social networking services such as Facebook in particular are associated with more diverse social networks."