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The Eastern Echo

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Sixth-graders get smart working smartphones

Most students receive a firm reprimand from teachers when even a glimpse of a cell phone is spotted from across the classroom.

But that’s all changing at Lincoln Middle School where three sixth-grade teachers are demonstrating how smartphones are changing the education dynamic in their classrooms.

To call the devices used at Lincoln cell phones is really a stretch since they cannot make outgoing calls or take incoming calls. Texting is also blocked, and like most public school computers, Internet access is filtered.

Read the rest of this story at: YpsiCiti.com.


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