Trade group pushes smartphones as educational tool

CTIA, a wireless industry trade group, is making a case for the educational value of cellphones. It will present research — paid for by Qualcomm, a maker of chips for cellphones — that shows so-called smartphones can make students smarter. Some critics are denouncing the effort as a self-serving maneuver to break into the big educational market. But proponents of selling cellphones to schools argue that they are making the same kind of pitch that the computer industry has been making to educators since the 1980s.

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