“They’re so old school when you have a 16GB iPad, and Monte Vista has 60 of the latest must-have technology from Apple for use in classrooms,” Jones reports. “The iPads were introduced Thursday to advanced placement students who will participate in a pilot project. If all goes well, Headmaster Stephen Sharp anticipates replacing heavy and expensive textbooks with cheaper, interactive e-versions.”
Jones reports, “Sharp believes the school is among the first to adopt iPads, but it won’t be the last.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Everybody wants to claim “first!”
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First!
Fist!
Fierce!
First to say more than first
I second that
the Kindle krowd krow – “Their eyes, what about their eyes?
iPad = gateway drug for the kiddies. By the time they grow up, they’ll be on 48-core Mac Pros with 512 GB of RAM, 40 TB of internal SSDs and 1 TBs/sec Light Peak fibre interconnects throughout, all in a package smaller than a Mac mini.
=:~)
@Chas
I love it when you talk dirty like that!
@Chas,
Why talk of the entry level machine!
Magick!
Now they can learn that the Earth is 4-6,000 years old and that Natural Selection is just someone’s unproven opinion on a beautiful touch screen tablet.
@ H.T.M.
I seriously LOLed.
Wouldn’t the kids be watching porn while the teacher is busy teaching?
@HTM: LOL! I can’t believe that people take the bible literally when it’s so obviously not 24-hour days. It doesn’t take a degree in theology to realize that those days aren’t literal, but refer to ages.
Back in the day ( also not 24 hours, btw ), people actually did research for themselves, now people just wiki it.
Makes me sick how much people don’t think and just accept what they read in the latest paper as fact.
We are definitely becoming information consumers… not a good thing, btw.
Kids need spiral-bound notebooks, pens and crayons to develop motorical skills of the hands. Tapping devices like iPad is road to nowhere… Our kids gonna be dumb button pushers…
Hey what about ecology and carbon footprint ? How many energy we need to produce 1 iPad and make it work?
Much more than produce one paper notebook and pencil…
@Sch
If you want porn, buy an android
sent from my ipad
No they won’t, the school is to formal for that…
Interestingly, there is a Monte Vista High School in Cupertino, just a few mile from Apple HQ. You’d think it would be THAT Monte Vista High School, that is first to use iPad in class.
No, It’s the watsonville one– I have some long distance friends that go there…
Praise the Lord and pass the iPads!
@ Moo Lattay,
Not taking the Bible literally is a given.
Thinking that days were epochs is just being a Biblical Apologist.
Just stick to The Golden Rule. You’ll be OK.
NOT FAIR!!
Do you guys set your alarms or what?!
Even my wife says I wasn’t first.
@jarasek – You’re kidding, right? We would not be replacing a single notebook and a single pencil per iPad. My son alone uses 3-4 notebooks per class per year and a whole package of pens per semester. How much energy would you consume in the 4-5 year life span of one of these devices? Significantly more than it takes to produce a single iPad. A single RECYCLABLE iPad.
Anyone that accepts the bible as anything other than a work of fiction is an imbecile. A drooling, pathetic, fantasy-loving idiot that will believe anything. It contradicts itself so many times that only a pathetic fool would accept it. It describes atrocities that make “Christians” the worst kind of hypocrites there have ever been. “Oh, your neighbor doesn’t accept our religion. Go kill everything that moves over there.” Ya, what nice people, eh? Preach peace and understanding and then kill a whole population. Then say “god told me to!” to make it ok?
Hypocritical assholes, the lot of you!
First to be 16th!
Anyone notice the funny irony of them being the first to use iPads with the word Vista in the school name? Guess they didn’t want to be associated with the bloated spaghetti-code operating system.
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So, what text books have gone to electronic versions?
I know my kids have the math book in electronic form for the first time this year, but only if they login to a website to see it.