I pads in Angers schools could lead pupils to listen to Bbc before to learn "abc" of English

Touchscreen tablets will be available in all Angers primary schools next spring.  The implemen-tation of those tools had started a year ago. The tablet choosen by Angers city is the famous "i pad", manufactured by the Us company, Apple. About 1 300 unities have been bought. The overall cost of the purchase is 350 000 €. Such a policy would be, according to Luc Belot, Angers deputy mayor when it was decided, the most important scheme in that field at the European Union scale.

According to teachers of the Marcel Pagnol primary school where the idea was experienced, the pupils, even those who never used touchscreen tablets, have had in short time a perfect command of the tool. The Angers city council looks much more convinced by the interest of the i pad at school, as indicates the page of the municipal website very similar to an ad for the Apple item. Moreover, the supply of i pads is part of a policy aiming at "social justice".

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The idea will be extended to forty schools of Maine-et-Loire. According to the state education authority, the numerical environment will allow pupils to download British Broadcasting Corporation (Bbc) programmes to learn English. But, in that field, as in many others, will the touchscreen tablets sufficient? Before listening Bbc, it's useful to master, through books, the "abc" of the language.