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'Kyle Menchhofer wants the kids in his school district to succeed in a technology-based world.  Menchhofer is the technology coordinator for the St. Marys City Schools in St. Marys, Ohio, a small, rural, Middle-American town with a diminishing tax base and not enough jobs. St. Marys’ unemployment rate is above the national average, and home computer penetration is below it. “We have a lot of kids who don’t have a computer at home, or if they do, it’s outdated”, says Menchhofer. “What we want to do is level the playing field, to give them the most positive educational experience possible.”

Challenges. With only four computers in each elementary classroom and an average of 22 students per class, the kids at St. Marys City Schools didn’t get much computer time. Menchhofer fi gures it at less than 30 minutes per student per week, hardly enough to prepare them for a world in which computer fluency is mandatory. Knowing he’d never be able to provide every student with a traditional notebook computer, Menchhofer began looking for an aff ordable alternative. In 2008, with a minimal budget and maximum optimism, he launched a mobile learning pilot project, using personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones as mobile learning devices.' 

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