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Their [message] is that we need to start changing the policy, and using the resources that are already available.”

More educators are wising up, they say, to the reality that most students have phones or other mobile devices that could allow them to give real-time feedback to a lecture on a text-message back channel, take pictures during a science field trip, or answer teacher prompts with online polling.

what students are learning about technology use when they reshape mobile-device policies, ed-tech experts say.

Recent research shows the proportion of students owning cellphones is increasing

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Dede of the Harvard Graduate School of Education stresses that, while an eventual progression to open mobile-learning environments might be inevitable, that doesn’t mean it will be immediately beneficial. The learning potential of the devices, he says, won’t be realized without continuing professional development, as well as in-class trial and error.