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“For decades, the center of computing has been the desktop, and software was modeled after the experience of using a typewriter,” said Georg Petschnigg, a former Microsoft employee who is one of the creators of Paper, a new sketchbook app for the iPad.

“People are living in the moment and they want to share in the moment,” Professor Sundar said. “Mobile gives you that immediacy and convenience.”

Students work in groups, and when they have a question, they call him over. He arrives with iPad in hand and records his voice and his writing on the iPad, which he immediately uploads to the class website so other students can benefit from the explanations instantaneously. (This, by the way, is another form of flipped teaching, he says.)

The campaigns are collected in a website and can be viewed here. 

We were pretty sure that the G² students would mostly comply with the new policy because they had invested so much time and effort (note: ownership) but we were uncertain just how effective the Responsible Use Campaign would be for everyone else.

groups researching the potentially negative consequences of cell phone use in schools, we came to realize that we needed a way to address these proactively if the proposal we were planning to make to administration had any chance of approval.

“It’s the kids’ fault if they are distracted and earn horrible grades.”

“We know there is no education in social networking,” said Ken Sanders, the principal of a middle school in Michigan that has one of the firmest bans: students can work only on computers provided by the school, and cellphones are banned, too, since smartphones can’t be blocked on schools’ systems. “Kids should be in school to learn, so we have a system that blocks all personal access,” he said.