No, my argument is that it doesn't take a smartphone to be distracted in class. And that electronic entertainment devices have been available for many decades.

No, my argument is that it doesn't take a smartphone to be distracted in class. And that electronic entertainment devices have been available for many decades. None of this is new. Children being distracted in classrooms is nothing new. If there's children, there's socializing, playing games, and ignoring adults for the much more interesting other children.' Cell phones are just the new boogyman, like CD players and walkmen and gameboys etc. were back in the day.