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Personal Smartphones in Primary Education

All fifth-form pupils (age group 11-12) at the pilote project school Goldau are given an Apple iPhone 3G for them to use in and out of school as a part of their personal learning environment between August 2009 and July 2011. The project is being supervised and evaluated by the Institut für Medien und Schule (IMS) of the Pädagogische Hochschule Zentralschweiz - Schwyz (PHZ Schwyz). It is sponsored by Swisscom and does not entail any extra costs for school, pupils or parents.