Grant Brings iPods to ESL Classes

Caller-Times (TX)

High School students Jamira Baniqued and Danae Uria, both 15, appeared to breeze through their first language lesson using an iPod. Texas' Corpus Christi Independent School District officials want to tap into the younger generation's grasp of technology with 50 iPods, made possible with an AT&T $25,000 grant to the Corpus Christi Education Foundation. The iPods, devices that download video and audio from computers, will be used in the district's English as a Second Language classrooms.

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