At first glance, a LaFayette high school classroom looks fairly typical.

But if you look closer, and listen, you'll notice a difference.

Students are using cell phones to record an audio file, or podcast, that can be uploaded to the internet.

Today's lesson plan has to do with restaurant menu's, and how many combinations of orders can be placed mathematically.

The podcasts are a new way to get students involved in learning, according to Math Instructor Ryan Friend.

"Everybody's got a cell phone, and they like to pull them out to use them for other reasons, not so educational, so I was like, let's pull them out to actually learn something with. Basically anybody who wants to go on line and knows the website can go on and access that file and listen to what they've recorded."

The laptops students are using come thanks to an 80-thousand dollar federal grant that the Georgia Department of Education awarded to LaFayette High school.

The school also got a smart board, and other types of new technology.

And the equipment comes with help.

Dalton State College helps teach the teachers to use all the high tech gear.

Judy McEntyre works at Dalton State College.

"So it's kind of transforming the way that we typically would have taught in a math classroom, or in any classroom."

Instructor Ryan Friend says the high tech equipment is making a difference.

"Well, I think anything that you can relate back to real life is important, and I also think that they enjoy using the technology. Their generation is a lot more attuned to, they've grown up with a lot of the technology."