“Educational applications are already available for tablets like the iPad, but iBooks turn reading, writing and arithmetic into an interactive experience,” KGTV-10 reports. “The iBooks allow students to highlight, turn notes into study cards and receive teacher updates. ‘The more engaging the content is, the more the students want to be in there; They want to be reading, they want to be learning,’ said Amanda Ferguson, who develops iBooks for educational materials company Pearson Education.”
KGTV-10 reports, “Some have questioned SD Unified’s purchase of $15 million worth of iPads for 340 classrooms. One 10News Facebook fan wrote: ‘I’m so confused. I thought we couldn’t afford to even pay the teachers, how can they afford 26,000 iPads???’ 10News learned the district is paying for the iPads through Proposition S funding. The measure, passed in 2008 by 69 percent of the vote, specifically sets aside money for ‘up-to-date classroom technology.’ ‘I think over the next five years, virtually every school system will be implementing this kind of a strategy,’ said Scott Drossos, senior vice president of Pearson Education. At $370, each iPad costs the district almost $30 less than retail.”
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