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Catholic Schools Debut iPad Program As School Begins

Six schools in the Atlanta Archdiocese are embracing the touch-screen iPads as the newest classroom tool to recreate Civil War battles in social studies, reinforce math lessons with instructional videos or write a classroom blog to improve writing skills.All the eighth-grade students in the participating schools get their own iPad 2 as part of a pilot program to test a new educational application, Net Texts.

Students in Barbara Findley’s algebra class at Notre Dame Academy, Duluth, will have step-by-step videos of math problems with them at all times.

“It’s as if I could go home with them,” said Findley, a veteran teacher of 41 years.

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