(by Staci Hupp, Des Moines Register)
At Waukee's welcome-back meeting this fall, Superintendent Dave
Wilkerson held up his cell phone and handheld computer to a group of
teachers.
"I said, 'We're fighting a losing battle,' " Wilkerson
said. "We're creating a false world for them in the school, a world so
different from what they're dealing with on the outside."
[...]U.S. schools also face pressure to prepare children for an economy that
now spans the globe. Chinese schools already are experimenting with
cell phones as learning tools, researchers say.
Researchers
predict U.S. students soon will use cell phones to photograph field
trips, search the Internet and answer classroom polls via text message,
among other things. Read the full story....
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