1) Teaching mobile etiquette, safety, and legalise 2) Training teachers on academic uses for cell phones (lets' give our inservice and preservice teachers the professional development they need to effectively integrate cell phones Last Fall I sent out a survey on my Twitter network asking K-12 teachers about cell phone use in their schools. received 100 responses on SurveyMonkey (Wow! Imagine how much more difficult it would have been to get survey responses from random teachers around the nation in 1995???). Survey Says. Nondisruptive cell phone use is allowed in the stairwells.