Students visited by Obama get iPads

BISMARCK - Students at a North Dakota elementary school visited by President Barack Obama in June will receive iPads as part of a White House technology initiative, U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said.
Cannon Ball Elementary School was one of 114 schools nationwide chosen to receive Apple technology in every classroom as part of the ConnectED initiative, according to a news release from Heitkamp, D-N.D.
All of the school’s roughly 100 students will receive an iPad. Every teacher or administrator also will receive an iPad and a Mac, and every classroom will be equipped with Apple TV, Heitkamp said.
The president and first lady visited the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on June 13, the first visit by a sitting president to a reservation in 15 years. They met with students at the elementary school, and Obama said during his speech that the nation must invest in native children, “and that starts from the White House all the way down here.”