Something new

So this Friday, I am trying something new. I'm allowing my students to use their ipods or phones during class to listen to music while they work on their assignment. I'm just curious how effective it will be in the completion of their assignment. When I was in school, it was a must to have the radio playing in the background while completing homework. I felt like I was more productive and successful, so I'm going to try this with my students. I'll let you know how that goes. (Even to this day if I have some background music playing while I am cleaning house, I think I could clean an entire castle in a day. :-)) I would like to allow them to bring ipads and laptops so they could type their responses, but I really don't want to get into theft issues. Maybe some day our district will consider allowing these devices in the classroom.