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Education should be about preparing our children for their future. Cellphones are an integral part of our children's futures that should be utilized in the classroom.

We should teach children that cell phones can be used for more than just sending text messages to their friends.

Cell phones and iPods are looked at as enemies of learning in most schools.

But Manatee officials are now acknowledging that the devices are destined to become an integral part of the classroom.

Experts now predict classrooms where students submit work from iPods and cell phones, and where textbooks are replaced by hand-held electronic devices.