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Over 100 schools in Pennsylvania are receiving grants of $10,000 each to buy handheld computers according to this article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

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Digital technology comes to Moon elementary school

Thursday, January 05, 2006

By Jan Ackerman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Fifth-graders in Richard J. Hyde Elementary School in Moon are completing their lessons in math, social studies, spelling and science without pencils and paper. Hyde and Moon Area Middle School are among more than 100 schools across Pennsylvania that have received $10,000 grants from the Department of Education to purchase handheld computers, plus software and training for use in elementary education.

The program is an offshoot of Technology Leadership Academies that were sponsored by the state of Pennsylvania and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation several years ago.

In the first two waves of the Hands on Learning program, more than 100 schools across the state received grants to integrate handheld computers into middle and secondary schools.

Hyde and the other elementary schools are the third wave of grants.

Fifth-grade teacher Elaine Mitchell said the small devices have really motivated her pupils.

"We've been using them since mid-November and the excitement and motivation are overwhelming," she said. "When I used to tell them to get out their notebooks and take notes for social studies, I could hear the groans. Now, they quickly get out their little computers to take notes."

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