To this end, one Los Angeles-based education startup is seeking to create a mobile classroom.

FORBES: The Mobile Classroom

They hope to launch their first mobile classroom in 2013, in neighborhoods of Los Angeles.

FORBES: The Mobile Classroom

In Wrexham, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog school is shut after power cables fell on to a mobile classroom.

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The SMILE Plug provides teachers with a platform to expand access to and utilization of new educational content and the ability to control mobile devices within the classroom, enabling overall better lesson planning and student evaluation.

ENGADGET: Marvell and Stanford create SMILE Plug cloud computer, SMILE Consortium to get companies and devs to build a better education system

The application pairs up girls in disadvantaged communities with an advantaged classroom (across the globe or close to home) with mobile technology.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

There had also been "gang-related issues" in the classroom, she said, where pupils had apparently been plotting to take other children's mobile telephones.

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By utilizing both mobile and cloud-based technology, the SMILE Consortium provides an open platform for creating new learning environments that enable Classroom 3.0.

ENGADGET: Marvell and Stanford create SMILE Plug cloud computer, SMILE Consortium to get companies and devs to build a better education system