When Cory's plan to get his students to communicate face to face fails he takes away their cell phones and assigns the class to prepare a discussion about whether technology has made people better the whole class is having trouble with communicating except for maya who has a smartphone Riley 'maya' Lucas and farkle then go to the library to do their research and this opens up their eyes to a world without cell phones maya also discovers that she is talented artist when given a pencil and paper this ultimately sparks for Riley and Lucas however Cory desperately tries to keep them apart once he realizes it was he who prompted these emotions to Riley at the end of the episode Cory gives maya a smartphone and says to use it to communicate to him about Riley he also buys maya an art kit
