Students at the Lester B. Pearson school board in the Montreal area are part of a one-of-a-kind project in Quebec.
They are part of a very technology-intense training program that involves all students, teachers and even parents.
It's part of a new initiative called "Digital Citizenship", a nine-step program teaching kids how to use technology and the Internet responsibly.
"The kids gravitate to it, are comfortable with it, are motivated by it and really want it in their hands because it just becomes that much more practical in terms of learning things," said Adrian Geller, principal at Dorset Elementary.
Among other things, they'll learn what's legal and not legal online and how to buy things safely on the Internet.
But it's also about putting cutting-edge technology into young hands to help them learn.
"I choose specific apps I try myself and when they are using iPod touches in the classroom they have designated work to be doing or apps to be working on," said Grade 7 teacher Rhiannon Szollosy. "For example, right now they are doing long multiplication on the iPad touches."
Officials say costs are mostly limited to staff training since the board already has 8,000 computers, 750 Smart Boards and a good collection of iPods and iPads.
But can there be too much technology in the classroom?
Laura Derry with a parent's committee said "Parents are going to be concerned, they are going to be worried . . . They should be worried now."
