It’s not the first date we’ve seen the iPhone used as an experimental means of education, but a London school’s recent announcement of its plans has caught our attention. The Gumley House Convent School — a small, Christian School for girls ages 11 to 18 — in London has laid out its plan to use give Apple’s smartphone to a choose group of 30 students as a tryout educational measure. Previous efforts we’ve seen to rope the iPhone into contemporary education have been mostly at the collegiate level, but Gumley’s plan is still a bit vague. The girls will have free access to all of the phone’s features with the exception of actual calls, and the trial

will last until the end of the school year. Like we said — the school’s not given out details as to what the actual rules of use will be — but we have a feeling that will all end in some wild bout of texting overload.

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Original post by Laura June