I feel stuck between, it's a battle worth fighting, and it's bigger than all of us and growing!!! I pick my battles about like Aaron mentioned above.

Oh, sometimes I allow them to take pictures with their phones, but I haven't found any apps for the phone that are great for classwork. My feeling on that would probably be: they can use the app once they've proven they can do it without the app.

Hi Michelle. I would love to wave a magic wand and make cell phones disappear! My last school had a school-wide no cellphones policy, but students were sneaking phones into school anyway. The no cell phone rule meant I had to be the cell phone police, and it got old fast. So now I have a "be reasonable" rule in my classroom. I tell students they can read messages and fire off quick responses, as long as it's not while I'm talking. This allows me to choose my battles. What I can't stand is when teachers make a rule, and then you go in their classroom and they're not enforcing it. It just teaches students that rules don't mean anything, IMO.