Man, talk about a bummer…how would you feel if you were a student Down Under and you were informed that you could no longer use, or bring your mobile phone to school?  Not cool my friends, not cool at all.  The breadth of that decision would be altogether larger if you were, like me, accustomed to the use of WHERE Widgets to help you get by in your daily life, now wouldn’t it?

According to reports, the reason for the ban is not because of excess chatting, the fear of cheating via the phones, or any other talk related concerns, but instead, because incidents of students committing crimes, sexual assaults, or bullying and videoing them with their mobile phones has increased so substantially.  That’s right, students Down Under have been using their video-enabled mobile phones to document, and then post online, a wide variety of mischief and debauchery.

This brings up very interesting questions here at home, I believe.  Do you feel technology and the increasingly mobile nature of it, has enabled similar acts in the U.S.A.?  Should similar bans be put into effect?  An increasing majority of cell phones are equipped with digital and video cameras, enabling the capture of any type of event, positive or negative.  I’d love feedback on this…!