Bringing technology into the classroom is still very new to me. We have one working computer in the class that is very, very slow and students primarily use it for word processing. However, the other day, a boy brought in his laptop and just began using it during one of my classes. I have to admit, I didn't know how to take it at first. Yes, I am pro-technology, but he didn't ask permission to start working on it. Once we established that he had permission from the student services teacher and he was using it to type up a story, I loosened up a bit. But the rules had all changed. Now students were hovering around him , wanting to know what he was doing, asking him to look up things on Google, surfing here and downloading there. Yikes, where was the control?! Yes, that's it. I had lost control over my lesson. It didn't stop there. At nutrition break, the laptop came out so that music videos could be played. "Oh, she's so hot," was all I kept hearing from the back corner. As the days went on, my classroom became the hangout at break times. After a week and a half of this I couldn't take it anymore. I needed some clarification and guidelines on laptop use in the grade 6/7 classroom. "It's up to you," my administrator said. No! I wanted a straight answer. So, I've made my decision - the laptop can be used as a tool during class but goes off at break times. I'm now the 'mean ' teacher and my class is no longer the place to be at lunch. Did I do the right thing?