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With the iPad will go to kindergarten the next five-year in September many students in the United States. The tablet PC has been officially recognized as educational tools in several states, with local school boards to introduce
tablets in the educational process, gradually replacing the pencils and notebooks.
This practice has excited proponents of the use of new technologies in education, but also raises numerous complaints from people who speak of "unnecessary costs" of the state or claim that familiarize children with the technology of such a young age would not make good.

Teach me, iPad, letters
From the new school year, about 300 students in kindergarten Omparn Town of Maine will devote less time to write words on paper and draw with crayons, as they engage in many 'traditional' school activities using their individual iPad. Among other things, through the tablets students will learn the alphabet, basic numerical data, while practicing skills such as painting and music.

"It's definitely an adventure. It will be a learning journey for teachers and students. I look forward to seeing who can lead us, "he told news agency Associated Press Amy Chaimerl, kindergarten teacher in the area, which yesterday got their hands on the first of the iPad will receive the school in September. Mrs Chaimerl was impressed after the test has applications phonetic symbols, word formation and recognition programs available to the device. "The more we teachers use these tools, the better we can enhance learning and to transfer their children to the next level," he said after the first contact she had with the iPad.