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I thoroughly enjoyed watching this presentation and reading the associated blog post as it made rethink about the importance of real discussion with our students. I have certainly made blanket statements like: ‘no ipods or cell phones during class’. It never occured to me that the students could have actually been using the calendar program built in their mobiles or take notes by text messaging themselves, the same way that I like to write things in my diary. And I can certainly remember(Iam not that old) the days where I used to have background music when I was doing my homework at home. Since not everybody enjoys listening to music when doing a task in class, I think I should be more flexible with the ones that do, and allow them to use their ipods, as long as A.they don’t disturb the others and B. they do their work.

I think that it is really important that we have discussions with our students about appropriate use of technology in the classroom and come to mutually agreements, before we start ‘posting and imposing our rules’. I know I will.