iPad training for 1500 teachers in LA Unified begins this week

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L.A. Unified is handing out iPads to 1,500 teachers in first part of technology program. When school starts next week, 30,000 teachers will be using the devices

Over the next week, L.A. Unified will give 1,500 teachers a few days of training on using new iPad applications in the classroom.

Two months ago, L.A. Unified's board of education voted to spend $30 million to buy iPads for every teacher and student at 47 district schools. On Monday, the district began training those teachers on how to use them.

KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez reports.