Smartphones, learning, and hands in the dirt; reconnect with your senses to reconnect with this world. https: //shimshonobadia.com/thesensoryexploration/ I don't know a world without the internet. So when I noticed that my students were standing beside a beautiful Creekside and they were 'Snapchatting' on their smartphones with classmates less than a metre away from me, why did I leap to the conclusion that they were using the technology to escape rather than engage with their immediate environment? As it turned out, they were 'Snapchatting' about the creek we were working on in that...