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Industry Makes Pitch That Smartphones Belong in Classroom
Smartphones are what computers were to the education industry 40 years ago. How will the educators effectively incorporate these tools into 21st Century learning skills?
Schools now spend hundreds of millions of dollars on computers to provide an average of one computer for every three students, at a cost of $1,000 a year for each machine.
The only difference now between smartphones and laptops, they say, is that cellphones are smaller, cheaper and more coveted by students.
This latest attempt to get cellphones into schools might quell some of the old concerns while raising new ones.
“You have to be willing to put in the time and be very patient with the technology,” Suzette Kliewer, the teacher who administered the Digital Millennial program at Southwest High School in Jacksonville, N.C., said.
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