@kquillen
Cell phones seems to be an ongoing issue at our school and is frequently the topic of discussion amongst myself and my peers. Our school has a no cell phone policy in the classroom and especially not in clinical for the nursing students. Currently what I do, is go over the policy one the first day of class. If I see a student with a cell phone while I am lecturing or during a class activity, I quietly move to that student and direct them to put the phone away. If I have a repeat offender, I ask the student to come see me and discuss the issue privately. I am trying to avoid spending a lot of my lecture time discussing cell phone policy because of one or two students. For exams, I ask students to turn phones off and put them upside down on the desk so if I look down a row, I can see all phones. My rationale for this is so there is never a question about a student cheating. If I cannot see there phone and they are looking, intently, at their crotch during the exam, there is a problem.
