It's Not Just Rude, It's Ruining Your Brain

[LWolf]

30. In my school,

cell phones are to be turned off and in lockers while on campus. If not, they are confiscated, dropped off in the office, and a parent must pick it up.

Tablets are allowed in some classrooms; the individual teacher's discretion. They aren't to be in use in halls or anywhere else, or the same confiscation rule applies.

Many schools are providing banks of tablets instead of actual computers, because they're cheaper.

In my classroom, my students use tablets for a variety of things. Research, vocabulary work, and, in some cases, doing their assignments as google docs. No printing, no toner, no copy machine maintenance, fewer piles of paper on my desk to deal with, and I can mark, give feedback and grades, without ever having to pass papers back and forth.

Anyone misusing a tablet, whether the school's or their own, for other purposes, loses the opportunity to have them in class. It's worked so far.

Of course, I don't leave anything they need a tablet for with a sub. If computer access is necessary for the sub plans, I schedule time in the hard-wired computer lab, where the sub can easily monitor them.