In class, students, including myself, have become professional multi-taskers with our cellphones in our laps, fingers glued to our laptops, while taking notes at the last second so we can pass tomorrow’s exam. To me, text messaging has become a natural means of communication that in situations such as a learning environment, it causes my attention to jump around. Even though I’m aware that I should be directly focused on the professor’s lecture notes, being on my cell phone sounds much more appealing. It’s almost like a habit that we’ve all grown into the last couple of years with the rise of technology. Technology distractions in the classroom affect our overall performance during any time of the day. Since the use of technology, such as cell phones, have become imbedded into our daily routine, the thought of refraining from them during class is fairly difficult. Most everyone understands that a classroom setting is not the time or place to carry on a casual text messaging conversation; but we still continue to do it. This in turn has created an easily distracting environment and has caused our society to become the multi-tasking experts. The question we must consider is how everyone’s personal cell phones may or may not affect their performance in an educational setting. I believe this topic would be benefit the average person because it will focus on the possible effects cell phones have on academics. In turn, we need to question if it is it still necessary to maintain a classroom “no cell phone policy,” even though our society has grown to rely on such technology for valuable information. The following article summaries present knowledgeable information on technology use in the classroom and how the negative effects override the positive ones as this point in society.