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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -
Duval County's pre-kindergarteners will be the first in the district to get their hands on iPads in the classroom.
The tablets were once ordered for administration staff but are now being redirected to the kids.
Spring Park Elementary School student Jamarcus Harden knows what an iPad is.
"It's like a touch screen and it's like a big phone that you can do lots of things on," the fourth-grader said.
The thought of having one in school gets him more excited than the playground.
"You can learn stuff that you don't know, and you can get information so you can do like biographies," Harden said.
Duval County Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says that's exactly why he's focusing on getting more technology into schools.
"Our children are digital natives," he said. "They are growing up in a technological environment and the think technology, so we have to give them the tools to enhance their learning because that's how they're starting to think and that's how they're starting to learn."
When Vitti found out the district previously spent $261,000 on iPads on 350 iPads for administration, he took the iPads back to give to pre-K students, and they will be used in the classroom.
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