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Many primary and secondary schools ban mobile phones from the classroom, largely due to the distraction their use can cause (Campbell, 2006). However, when used responsibly, mobile phones hold huge potential in an educational setting. Staff and students at Priory School in Portsmouth have worked together to devise a ‘Mobile Policy’(Rogers, 2011), which encourages responsible and acceptable use of mobile phones during school social time. The students felt that changing behaviour and perceptions towards mobile devices during social time was a first step to using their own mobile devices in the classroom. Learning with mobile devices has pedagogical benefits such as student-centred learning and the ability to turn any space into a learning space (Cochrane and Bateman, 2010). Although devices were institutionowned, the Learning2Go (see website) mobile learning local authority scheme (2003 …