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Teachers at a Sunderland academy have gone high-tech in a bid to replace traditional teaching methods. Academy 360 has given staff Apple iPhones and plans to give similar technology to pupils.

The school is researching ways to use the Internet on the computer’s applications as a learning tool.

School bosses say youngsters today are perfectly at home with mobile phones, Nintendo Wiis, and PlayStations and many of them spend hours a day chatting on social networking sites.

Academy 360 is working with the University of Hull to instruct teachers in the technology young people use.

Teachers are being encouraged to explore the tools it offers them and put forward suggestions of how it could be included in the curriculum.

Chief executive of Academy 360 Paul Prest believes activities such as blogs, Google and games could be used to teach students.

He hopes to give each pupil an iTouch hand set which has the same features as

By Jacqui Cheng

It appears as if Steve Jobs will indeed return to Apple by the end of June after taking a six-month leave from the company. The world is watching to see whether he’ll make a surprise appearance at WWDC next week, though many believe he’s saving that surprise for another time.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is reportedly on track to return to Apple full-time later this month, right on schedule. Insiders speaking to The Wall Street Journal claim that Jobs’ recovery is “coming along” and that Apple’s directors have been receiving weekly updates since Jobs took leave in January. Whether or not we’ll see him at next week’s WWDC keynote, however, remains up in the air.

“He was one real sick guy,” one of the WSJ’s sources said. “Fundamentally he was starving to death over a nine-month period. He couldn’t digest protein. [But] he took corrective action.”

The iconic CEO has been

by Palluxo

A lot of people have been posting questions and asking for suggestions whether or not they should buy an iPod Touch for themselves. Clearly, the existence of the iPod Touch, which is yet another revolutionary creation of Apple Inc., has buzzed up a lot of consumers today. It has become a hype, a hit, and a statement saying that when you have it, you simply belong.

Now, before deciding whether you should buy an iPod Touch or just settle for something less like iPod Nano or the Sony PSP, you have to be aware what really an iPod Touch is and what this innovative technology can offer you.

Designed and manufactured by Apple Inc. as an upgraded addition to the iPod family, the iPod Touch is a portable digital media player and mobile Wi-fi platform. Unlike the previous models of iPods including the Shuffle,