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6 Must-Have Back to School Apps

by John Patrick Pullen

Source: time.com

Smartphones are the new backpacks

When you pen a story about school children and technology, this is typically the spot where the writer goes on about how kids used to walk uphill in the snow, lugging a bag overflowing with heavy tomes, so on and so forth. But the reality is that older people need to get with the times just as much.

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