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Let me begin this essay by making two points quite clear. First, I am not suggesting that any other professors follow my practice of taking students’ cellphones in class. Second, and related to that, professors have a wide variety of reasons to want students to have their cellphones.
Some believe that students should learn to self-regulate (or even sink or swim, depending on one’s perspective), often reminding them that “this isn’t high school.” Others find that students can and do use cellphones in productive ways in their courses -- whether by looking up information and resources on the spot or through live Twitter feeds, to name a few.
That said, something changed in my classes and me that has led me to take away students’ cellphones. For years, I did what many professors do: I made vague warnings about cellphones, explaining to students that their distraction would cause them to do worse in the course than if they were more focused. At times, I became so bothered that I would call students out during class, though I would usually try to say something to them away from most students, often when they were in groups doing work. But one event caused me to finally adjust my approach completely.
I was teaching a first-year writing course during the spring semester, a time when our weaker students usually enroll. Students were making presentations on their second papers, so I was sitting in the