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2009

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Cell Phones Become Learning Tools

At Wiregrass Ranch High, cell phones are used in classroom work.
WESLEY CHAPEL | Jennifer Gould ended her class announcements and told her students to take out their cell phones.
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- "I need at least three people who can get a signal in here," Gould said to her advanced placement literature class. "We're going to be studying the works of D.H. Lawrence, and I want you to find some things about him that you don't already know."
  Nearly everyone whipped out a phone and began tapping away. Within moments, the teens were sharing their Internet discoveries.
- In a world where most high schools have adopted a "we see them, we take them" policy on cell phones, Pasco County's Wiregrass Ranch High School swims upstream. It encourages teachers to allow students to use their phones in classes for educational purposes. Teens routinely use their phones to shoot pictures for projects, calculate math problems, check their teachers' blogs and even take lecture notes.
- If anyone's complaining, Bonti hasn't heard it. Parents, staffers and students alike have praised the school's many efforts to be technologically savvy, including giving students permission to use their personal laptops on campus, too, he said.
- "It puts the education in their hands," Gould said.

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