Teaching while surrounded by smartphones

Smartphones have changed the way the people behave, their expectations, and interact with other people. Being more young people centric, these are now ubiquitous in the education environment which has higher representation of the youth, and have dramatically changed how our students behave in the classroom, what they expect, and how they learn. These devices offer both an opportunity and a threat to the education process and educators must take them into account when designing any education activity. We may wish them away, but that is getting less possible by the day. This paper investigates two scenarios, and these case studies highlight what can go right and wrong, and suggests processes that make it more likely that an educational process will be enhanced by the use of smart phones.