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Skype and Language Learning

Spanish students hone their foreign language skills with frequent webcam chats with their English-learning counterparts in South America.

Students who go above and beyond mandatory assignments will be more likely to remember class material and apply it when they get out into the working world.

Mobile Phones

take a snapshot of the blackboard for later studying.

the number of cell-phone related infractions is “minuscule

Students were provided with an iPod touch, given instructional materials, and told they had to make a few academic-related tweets a day. Soon, a thriving community grew, complete with @replies and hashtags