A teacher sent me an interesting note about smartphones in classrooms. It was timely because I had a recent conversation with a friend about her teen's new smartphone.
I remarked a few months ago that her daughter differed from most teenage girls who always seem to be looking downward -- at their phones, their computers or their iPads. Her daughter was always looking outward at the world around her, full of interest and questions.
Her mother lamented a few weeks ago that her daughter now had a smartphone and was spending a lot of time looking down at the screen. (She and her friends had a deep attachment to a funny photo sharing program.) Mother and daughter weren
