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CRAIK, Saskatchewan, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A high school in Saskatchewan, Canada, has turned the tables on traditional educators' thinking and encourages students to use cell phones in class.
For the past six weeks, the school in Craik, 65 miles northwest of Regina, has been running a pilot project in which the phones are part of the curriculum, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix reported Friday.
The idea was born during a staff meeting in which teachers were complaining how disruptive cell phones were when someone proposed turning them into tools, said Principal Gord Taylor.
"These are tools, and there's no use burying our heads in the sand and not taking advantage of them," he told the StarPhoenix. "We're preparing these kids for the world and people in business are carrying cells as tools for communication."
Students are instructed how to use the phones' calendar and alarm functions and, most recently, they had to send text responses to their teacher on a book study, the newspaper said.
Taylor said the program's effectiveness will be evaluated during the summer.
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