Pay Attention!

This video, from http://t4.jordandistrict.org/payattention moved me to think about a few things.  I know in a class of 30 high school students, that it's likely that 25 of them have cell phones and of those 25, it's possible that 20 of them have smartphones or internet access.  Why am I not using them?  Recently, some forward thinking administrators in my district have left the decision to allow their use (or not) up to the individual teacher. I LOVE that and I'm excited to try something using a medium that so many of them find necessary to their daily lives.  I had never thought about the SMS texting use that is mentioned in this video.  A class set of laptops can run into problems - but a student's phone?  SO much more reliable than a network or equipment that may or may not work at any given point!