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I think that it is reasonable to take technology "time outs," to have environments and maybe even times where the family interacts with each other and not the outside world through texts. It's sort of a return to the dinner table as a place where you learn how to engage in face-to-face, meaningful contact. Put your tech aside. You can return to it afterwards.

At that point I took all the phones away and we had a little reminder chat about when it was appropriate to use your phone and when it was not. Also that it was rarely appropriate to hide under the table.

This is a table looking at traditional classroom practice and potential digital alternatives

And though the iPads have been in the building for only two months, an education revolution appears to be under way.

I actually do use Winthrop High School students are never far from their iPads, even using them during their lunch hours. A glance across the school cafeteria reveals iPads on almost every table. this for many academic purposes." Those include taking class notes and recording lecture audio in an app dubbed Evernote, using the iPad as planner and calendar, downloading and reading class materials in PDF form and writing papers.