A Florida school is using text messaging as part of classroom instruction. Jill Lloyd, who teaches 11th- and 12th-grade science, is using a free online program to survey students and project a live feed of the discussion on a screen in the front of the class. Students share phones with others who do not have them, and say they enjoy using the technology. “It gets the whole class to participate,” one student said.

Read the full story, WFTS-TV (Tampa, Fla.)

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