Technology in the classroom

I'm going to share my experience as a teacher using technology inside a classroom. Nowadays we, as teachers, are asked no to let students use their mobiles inside the classroom which, by the way, I find ridiculous since this device is immersed in our society and students are the ones who use them more. From my point of view we have to take advantage from their knowledge on technology, use devices as a tool and not forbbide them since they may result incredible useful inside the classroom. Last year I started trying to insert this device in the classroom by asking students to download some apps to use in class like "Oxford, English-English dictionary". As a result I got really engaged students who were happy because this "forbbiden device" was now at their disposal and it was not a sin to use it in class.

 This year I decided to go further, I started using google docs to share ideas and to do homework online. I'm using it with my students from 1st, 2nd and 6th year in secondary school. The result has been great up to now. I have more engaged students, homework is really easy to correct, I just add some comments from my laptop and then we discuss in class.They can also work from their mobile phones or tablets. They can take all the files in there. Next step is to create presentations from google docs, I will try to work on the reader we are about to start reading through google... let's see how it goes...