In my student teaching practice I was really surprised that the grade 8 students did not have cell phones. Only 2 students had cell phones but a lot of students had a ipod. The ipods and cell phones were used a bit in class but not as much as you would think. Our class was right next door to the computer lab plus we had 3 computers in the classroom and 2 ipads. My CT applied for a grant a couple years ago to get ipads and equipment for pod cast and got it. A lot of younger students borrow the ipads and put games on the ipad which I find stupid because they are not educational. The ipads are suppose to be all synced so if one of the ipads downloads a game, the other ipad will as well. But when I was at the school my CT could not figure out why this was not working. I think the ipads were useful for research but when it came to actually writing an essay they were useless because they do not have a microsoft office for them. I was thinking that they could use a google doc to write in the essay but everyone else is doing the essay in word and does not have the specifications like word does.