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Two Lubbock teachers are preparing their classrooms with the latest technology to enhance the educational experience.
Teachers at Roscoe Wilson and Honey Elementary applied for mini grants to bring iTouches to their classrooms. They say the new technology makes learning endless with easy access to search engines to look anything up versus a book that will always stay the same.
"Kids coming into kindergarten these days know more than I do, and I knew more than most of my teachers coming in and as technology changes generations are changing completely," says teacher Cayce Noble.
Bringing in the new Apple iTouch won't replace all the textbooks right now, but some teachers say it's possible in the future because of all the various applications.
"A dictionary, they can get a dictionary," says teacher Melissa Arney. "We can download that as one of the apps. They can look up words and it just makes it a little bit easier to where if you put an actual dictionary book in front of them, they often don't know how to use those."
With the iTouch in the classroom students can go on virtual tours of museums around the world instead of looking at the pictures in their textbooks.
"It's difficult to get a student to curl up with a good book like we might have when we were young," says Noble. "They can hop on the computer or their iTouch or iPads, all the fancy technology and surf the Web. And so now the iTouch is so much more engaging and allows the student to get involved with some thing even a textbook and it's more fun."
While this is just a pilot program for the two fourth grade classes this year, both teachers hope to see the iTouch or the latest technology in all classrooms next year.
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