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Thanks to an iPad grant from the Deerfield Education Foundation, come see what elementary school students are working on in LMC this Thursday night

Earlier in the school year, the Deerfield Education Foundation (www.DeerfieldEducationFoundation.org) awarded a grant of nearly $70,000 to outfit all four elementary school Library Media Centers with a full set of 25 iPads to empower research activities, group learning, artifact production, eBook creation, and audio and camera features to extend learning with multimedia. The addition of LMCdedicated iPads offers students 1:1 level of access to the widest range of educational technology within the LMC.

“The iPads let us do a lot more in terms of extending what the students learn,” said Rich Connell, the Library Media Center Director at Wilmot Elementary School. “The fifth grade classes used an app called Book Creator that allows them to take what they normally would do as a PowerPoint presentation or a poster and create an e-publication. What I notice is that they put a lot more thought into its composition and design as they’re working with it. They just really love the technology.

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“On Showcase Night, we’ll have all the iPads set up in here so the kids can come down and show them to their parents.”

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