In classrooms and schools around the world one of the areas of contention has been student use of their own technology. Mobile phones are seen as a particularly disruptive technology \u2013 so much so that we can see that similar problems create similar solutions. The more one sees, however, the more one wonders about the boundaries of reality. Are these real, or instances of wishful thinking?<\/p>\n
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