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Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Kids talk to TV, and it talks back: Beaver science students connect with educators - Eleanor Chute, Post-Gazette Education Writer
Beaver Area School District sixth-grader Ryan Tatko will watch just about anything on TV, but he doesn't usually talk to the television. Nor does it usually talk back. But those rules were thrown out the window at College Square Elementary School in Beaver. Sixth-graders have been talking to a 19-inch TV, through which they can see and hear educators from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, stationed in Oakland, talk back. "Talking to the TV helps you to pay attention to what's going on," said Ryan.
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