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Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks
APBy STEPHANIE REITZ - Associated Press | AP – 2 hrs 11 mins ago
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.
A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston will also start the year with new school-issued iPads, each loaded with electronic textbooks and other online resources in place of traditional bulky texts.
While iPads have rocketed to popularity on many college campuses since Apple Inc. introduced the device in spring 2010, many public secondary schools this fall will move away from textbooks in favor of the lightweight tablet computers.
Apple officials say they know of more than 600 districts that have launched what are called "one-to-one" programs, in which at least one classroom of students is getting iPads for each student to use throughout the school day.
Nearly two-thirds of them have begun since July, according to Apple.
New programs are being announced on a regular basis, too. As recently as Wednesday, Kentucky's education commissioner and the superintendent of schools in Woodford County, Ky., said that Woodford County High will become the state's first public high school to give each of its 1,250 students an iPad......................................>>>>.......................................>>>>..............................http://news.yahoo.com/many-us-schools-adding-ipads-trimming-textbooks-160839908.html
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PAY ATTENTION TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL PENSIONS.........................WHO DO THINK WAS A MAJOR SUPPORTER BEFORE?.....
DON'T BE STUPID.............LOOK IT UP............REALLY...I'M NOT KIDDING......... |
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But they KEEP building libraries out of brick and mortar! JOBS JOBS JOBSSSSSSSSSS! |
| "While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat." |
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But they KEEP building libraries out of brick and mortar! JOBS JOBS JOBSSSSSSSSSS!
ain't it funny? they should be called museums.....I'm all about keeping the stuff for if the 'power goes out' but how much into the big library??????????????? apparently not enough because not everyone has FREE cell phones yet................. |
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The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
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