By Jessica DiNapoli, THE Journal
Preschoolers in North Carolina’s largest school district will now be able to use touchscreen computers in the classroom. The Wake County Public School System in Cary installed 24 whiteboards and 39 touchscreen computers–made by Winston-Salem, NC-based educational technology company Hatch–in its Title I pre-K classrooms, which are for four-year-olds who need academic support. The district, made up of more than 146,000 students, recently made the technology purchase to help close the gap in early learning. About 65 percent of the students in Wake County’s Title I pre-K program have limited English proficiency, but both the whiteboards and computers are equipped with Hatch’s activities that are designed to help increase literacy and build language skills necessary for kindergarten.
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