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This article covers a wide variety of issues surrounding mobile technologies in the classroom and delves into how mobile technologies will affect society as a whole. It discusses how and why educators are gradualists at heart and why many are hesitant/resistant to introducing mobile technologies in the classroom. It also discusses how mobile technology is unstoppable and is changing the learner. "Our current educational system is obsolete and we as educators will become obsolete if we do not realize that we must embrace the changes that are upon us in how, where and why students learn." "Learners through the use of mobile learning, blended learning, and e-textbooks in socially-based, un-tethered, and digitally rich learning are being educated without us as the TEACHER." The article discusses how our job as educators is to Enable, Engage, and Empower students and defines some responsibilities for us as educators around developing the "rules" around how and when students, and therefore society, uses mobile technology. An interesting discussion of how digital citizenship is impacted by mobile technology is also contained. Interestingly enough the article also acknowledges the burdens and issues that mobile technology is placing directly on teachers both financially and with respect to their workload. Overall a thorough overview of the impact of mobile technology on the future of education. Having issues with annotations in diigo so I annotated it in Google Read & Write.