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iPads in class energize kids as teachers test how to use them
By Kevin Simpson
The Denver Post
For 10-year-old Kaitlyn Chin, the first few weeks of school came packed with holidaylike anticipation — especially when the fourth-grader at Legacy Academy in Elizabeth saw boxes delivered to the building.
"I would always hope they were the iPads," she says.
And finally, they arrived — a wave of tablet devices that, combined with other Apple technology, created a schoolwide learning system based largely on the second-generation iPad2.
"The first day we could bring them home, I was up all night," recalls Kaitlyn. "I learned so many things, it really shocked me."
Well into a first, full year of experimentation, many educators also describe a steep learning curve with their introduction to the popular touch-screen tablet. Students use the $600 devices to read novels, shoot videos, conduct research, hone their writing skills and bring new enthusiasm to once-tedious drills on educational basics.
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