Mobile phones and Classrooms

Should mobile phones be banned in classrooms?

It’s a hot topic with many views and opinions and debates amongst teachers and pre-service teachers. Similar to Danielle‘s blog and her views on banning smart phones in schools, I believe utilising smart phones and connecting students to technologies they use outside of school can be beneficial in learning. I know there are students out there who use there phones in a wrong way or get distracted during lessons with texts, tweets and Facebook posts, so there needs to be boundaries when they can access their smart phones. But banning mobiles, especially  in schools who don’t have the budget to give all students the opportunity to use ICTs regularly can be disadvantaged, especially as we see technology becoming more widely used in the modern day workplace.