mysteriously disappeared. shocking. jenna: you can t even find your backpack some of the time, let alone an expensive device. reporter: can you imagine if we had these in school? that would be awesome. jenna: thinking about that while you re doing the report. that is an interesting question, how do you involve technology in the curriculum. what is the best way to do it. an interesting story to watch. reporter: it is not easy. are you too far behind technology to catch up. are you getting too far ahead? no really easy answer. jenna: a great story we ll continue follow, adam thank you very much. reporter: absolutely. jon: i learned they don t drop well. jenna: how did you learn that? jon: when my briefcase strap broke. jenna: that was it? jon: that was it. new ipad. there is movement underway to save an american institution. the drive-in movie theater. movie studios are notifying theater owners they are phasing out films to go digital. that could really mean the end for the good
driven by the educators and the students and their ability to really use this technology, i think that is the, that is the most holistic way to do it and that is the way in the end, that is the only way to make it relevant, if it is meeting need of those folks in the classrooms reporter: so as the problems mounted the superintendent s job was in question. it appeared likely the program would be suspended indefinitely but, in a surprising move this week, that divided school board voted to continue a trimmed-down, slower ipad rollout. the new conditions will include stricter oversight, much closer the device s impact on student education. some smaller school districts had success using ipads and of course they have been used around, for that matter around the country a lot of us, they are used as private level. now seems lausd will try to get these things to work in the classroom. jenna, not too much after sure pride, students who grew up with devices like this were the first ones to b
jon? jon: interesting the president almost seemed relieved to get a question about iran and nuclear ambitions. how bad are things when that is your escape hatch? jon: exactly. howard kurtz, thank you. be sure to catch howard this weekend with more on the media coverage of the week s top stories, mediabuzz airs 11:00 a.m. eastern time sunday. and at 4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. jon: right. special guest this weekend by the way? bill o reilly. thanks, howard. jenna: no personality those two. i don t know what they will do. it will be a great show. a billion dollar technology test for the second largest school district in the country. 14,000 ipads have already been handed out in this district but some big problems apparently are making it easy for this technology to earn a passing grade which we all hope for, right? adam housley joins from us los angeles with more on this, adam? reporter: come on, you hope for better than a passing grade, jenna. your parents want more than that, right? je
reporter: only straight as, a san francisco student a bad rollout from the ipad program. l.a. unified school district hoped to be a model for the nation. they hoped to pass out 650,000 free devices to students and teachers over a one billion dollar program. but the program has been mired in controversy. hundreds of kids breached security firewalls, very first week. dozens of these ipads have mysteriously gone missing. there have been many more questions whether teachers were even adequately trained to integrate devices in the classrooms. l.a. superintendent insists the program is important to bridge the economic divide in this district with some of the nation s poor students but parents and educators say they will support the plan only if it is done right. we ve made a very, very committed push that we were going to bridge a digital divide and we are going to deal with the pernicious inequity in access to technology for students. making sure this is being