Upgrade for all; Kelly Yang says her battle to get the attention of gadget-obsessed students taught her that technology is no match for great teaching

For the past four years, Apple has been my biggest competitor in teaching. Steve Jobs nearly destroyed me with all his gadgets. The iPhone and iPad are the class clown, the smart alec, and the child with attention deficit disorder all rolled into one. When I first started teaching essay-writing at an after-school centre in 2005, my biggest competitor for students' attention was apathy...