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Rachel Denning, Dan Lynch and Brian Speckart browse the recently released 1940s census data at the Find My Past booth during the RootsTech conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City this week. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Pay-as-you-go U.K. company entering U.S. genealogy market

Last updated Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 8:15am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Evidence of an explosion of interest and technology is the best way to describe the RootsTech genealogy conference, which runs through today at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City.

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Fourth-graders Austin Curry (left) and Brook-Lynne Tarbox record their voices reading text about animals. They later listened to the recording to better understand which words they missed or mispronounced. (SHNS photo by Angela Dice / Special to the Kitsap Sun) (RS)

Classrooms increasingly turn to mobile devices

Angela Dice The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 3:21pm

BREMERTON, Wash. -- A classroom full of fourth-graders scrambled to their seats as teacher Scott Wisenburg announced it was time for a reading lesson.

Some reached straight for iPods and others hurriedly wrote down predictions about the text they were soon to read.

Last year, he and two other teachers in fourth and first grades began using iPods, and this year the program -- called iLearn -- has expanded to 15 classrooms. "They're a great discipline tool," Wisenburg said of the devices, which he is using in his classroom at View Ridge Elementary School in Bremerton. But Wisenburg and other educators say that mobile devices like iPods and touch-screen tablets are much more than that.

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