LA Unified sponsors promotional video for iPad program
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Kids at KIPP Comienza Community Prep elementary school in Huntington Park are glued to their iPads.
L.A. Unified's troubled iPad program is getting an image makeover – Hollywood style.
The the school district has tapped promotional filmmaker Art Simon to make a documentary-style video about the iPad project – the district's initiative to give every student a tablet computer.
Simon has tackled technology in the classroom before. In 2011, he produced a short video for Alliance College-Ready Schools — a Los Angeles charter network that gives a laptop to every student. The video is meant to attract new families so it's chalked full of testimonials.
Even L.A. Unified board member Monica Garcia makes a cameo.
"Revolutionizing urban America," Garcia says of the school's technology-integration model.
Simon did not return calls for comment. District spokesman Tom Waldman says the
