Lost Mountain Middle School To Encourage Cell Use

As part of an experimental program to enhance the learning process, the days of teachers taking cell phones away from and disciplining students who are using their devices in class may be over at .

Billie Jean Holubz, an eighth-grade teacher at Lost Mountain Middle, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that "it's about time" the school system allow the use of cell phones. She said she has been considering requiring her students to research and blog about lessons, and then post those on the classroom's webpage.

"For too long our students have been limited to using paper, pencil and books as learning tools," Holubz said.

According to the AJC, Daniell Middle School has been chosen to join  and middle schools in a cutting-edge educational program which will allow students to log into a guest network at school and use their devices as tools in the learning process.

"Trends are telling us that we cannot afford the model for public education that we have now," Cobb Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said. "We are going to have to change and adapt. These initiatives have the potential to fundamentally change the way we deliver instruction to students and put us in better position to lead the future of education."