Cellphones are banned from many classrooms but at Orakei Primary School they are seen as essential to learning.

The decile 3 school has been given mobile phones to use in the classroom and students are personalising their learning, sharing files with teachers and keeping parents up to date with their progress.

Associate principal Matt Tamariki said many of the children would not get the chance to use new technology if it was not part of the classroom. Allowing low decile children to be excluded from technology would leave them disadvantaged at secondary school.

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