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Much more attention has gone to the ways students might use phones to cheat or take inappropriate pictures. But as the technology becomes cheaper, more advanced, and more ingrained in students' lives that mentality is changing.

Teachers who have incorporated cell phones into their classes say that most students abide by the rules. They note that cheating and bullying exist with or without the phones, and that once they are allowed, the inclination to use them for bad behavior dissipates.

When he suggested that schools should have open-phone tests, as a measure to combat cellphone cheating, one of the students responded, “Dude, we already have open-phone tests. The teachers just don’t know it.”