Over recent weeks media outlets have been highlighting the issue of the misuse of mobile phones in schools and the current government response encapsulated in their press release; “Government launches crackdown on mobile phones in schools”.  When faced with new difficulties like this, it is tempting to hark back to an easier, less complicated time and to try to recreate the type of context in schools which we know how to cope with. It seems as if the government are trying to push the problem away instead of facing the fact that in letting mobile phones become a central part of all our lives, we have let a genie out of a bottle which is here to stay.