“After 18 months of discussion, the Kutztown School Board has decided to enter into a four-year contract with Apple Computer Inc. that will put a laptop into the hands of every high school student beginning this fall. By approving the program, Kutztown will become the first in Berks County to provide hundreds of students with a laptop of their own,” Jay M. Kurtz reports for The Reading Eagle.
“The board voted 6-2 on the measure Monday night, with board member James D. Kramer absent. Exactly how much it will cost the district to provide laptops to about 620 students was not revealed. Don C. Vymazal, board president, said the district is bound by a confidentiality agreement with Apple concerning the program’s price. He said details will be made available after the contract is executed… About 400 school districts nationwide, including Altoona, have implemented Apple’s one-to-one computer program,” Kurtz reports.
Full article here.
FIRST POST!!!
More great news!!
Apple is one happening it company!!!
I hope someone is collecting data so that we can study the effects on the kids’ scores. That’ll get more schools into the program.
Man, it would have been so cool to get a laptop back when i was in school. Kids today don’t even realize.
funny, I went to school at Kutztown. Good little town, and a great art oriented college. Good for them…
G-Spank,
Hello, fellow Pennsylvanian. I left years ago for empoyment reasons, but I still miss the beauty of the Susquehanna River valley.
Macs are only for schoolchildren….not real IT professionals.
I have a small penis.
I also lovvvvvveeee sucking horse cock!!
Yum yum – I fancy a ride!
cute sputnik.
HEY – we need more pennsylvanians here! York County represented here!
Boy, it would have been so cool to get a calculator back when I was in school. Kids today don’t even realize, walking through all that snow, uphill, both ways.
Adams County is present and accounted for!
Littlestown, PA. to be exact.
Go Apple!
I wonder how long it’ll be before their parents start complaining about porn
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Former Franklin County-an here… Shippensburg, PA. Moved to Nashville, TN for a job in the music business.
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webbyswim…
Where in Your County?
Gravitonmatrix…
Congrats… I know a couple people who have done the same, very cool.
grew up in York, went to York Suburban HS – swimming, football, and track.
now living in DC – art director
webbyswim…
Very cool.
Grew up in Gettysburg, went to Gettysburg HS – Baseball, football
working in Baltimore, MD – Senior Designer
I grew up in Allentown. I used to be a flight instructor based out of ABE airport, and often flew in to Kutztown airport; parked the airplane next to the Kutztown Diner and had a nice meal. Those were the days…
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Now I live waterfront on a small island (Tierra Verde) in St. Pete, FL. Best of all, wireless extends down to the slip so I can hang out on my Catalina 30 and work. I do miss the mountains though…
Teachers should go on strike if their boards force them to use PCs.
Macs = productivity and learning
Imagine a PC classroom: “Now class, before we begin todays lesson, everyone run defrag, scandisk, scan for viruses and scan for spyware”
christopher – you suck! (jealous here)
wife is from Tampa – went to Academy of Holy Names, BA and MA from Rollins College in Winter Park.
good from from HS (went to Dover) got BS in graphic design at Kutztown – drove through there on way to Lehigh a few times.
This is very cool now if we could get this program to work with larger districts such as Orange County CA.
Go Apple
Is that really true?? I’m surprised (and pleased) if that many are doing 1-to-1 set ups.
ABQ Peter. LOL!!!
“[I]I hope someone is collecting data so that we can study the effects on the kids’ scores. That’ll get more schools into the program.[/I]
Less is More:
Unfortunately I didn’t make a note of the link, but recently there was an article on that subject.
The gist of it was that not only did the kids with computers grades improve, but they generally became more engaged and enthusiastic about school in general and homework and assignments done on ‘their’ computers in particular.
Sounds all good to me
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I’m from the Caribbean island Republic of Trinidad & Tobago myself. A few years ago, my children’s primary school (grade school) had to replace the old Mac computers in the computer lab. I worked hard with the teacher in charge of the lab to propose replacing them with new iMacs and a PowerMac G4 server. We had a hard time convincing the school board, but they finally agreed. The kids now all use e-mail and access the net as required, under supervision of course.
Every year the topic comes up again with new board members who believe that we are doing the children a disservice by continuing to use Macs. This in several cases from parents who cannot receive e-mail because their Windoze PeeCees are riddled with viruses. They do not know anything about computers other than Windoze (“Dell”) is the only choice, as far as they are concerned. They have not stopped once to consider that there has NEVER been a single virus on any of the Macs, even in the pre-OS X days or that the whole show, comprising fourteen iMacs for the kids, the G4, an iBook and a mix of about six eMacs and iMacs used by the staff, is maintained by one teacher who is also a mother with kids in the school and who has never had any IT training.
In the mean time, my daughter’s secondary school (high school), one of the best in the country, has a “state of the art” (according to the school) computer lab using only Windoze PeeCees. They are not allowed to access the internet or bring in CDs or floppys for fear of virus infection. The whole lab is an island. So I ask – what’s the point of having this “state of the art” system if students are so restricted? Apparently those in charge of the school are unaware that there is a better way. Who is really doing a disservice to the kids?
I posted this at <http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2925_0_1_0> this morning, but here it is again as we’re on the topic of Macs at school.
I’m from the Caribbean island republic of Trinidad & Tobago. A few years ago, my children’s primary school (grade school) had to replace the old Mac computers in the computer lab. I worked hard with the teacher in charge of the lab to propose replacing them with new iMacs and a PowerMac G4 server. We had a hard time convincing the school board, but they finally agreed. The kids now all use e-mail and access the net as required, under supervision of course.
Every year the topic comes up again with new board members who believe that we are doing the children a disservice by continuing to use Macs. This in several cases from parents who cannot receive e-mail because their Windoze PeeCees are riddled with viruses. They do not know anything about computers other than that Windoze (“Dell”) is the only choice, as far as they are concerned. They have not stopped once to consider that there has NEVER been a single virus on any of the Macs, even in the pre-OS X days or that the whole show, comprising fourteen iMacs for the kids, the G4, an iBook and a mix of about six eMacs and iMacs used by the staff, is maintained by one teacher who is also a mother with kids in the school and who has never had any IT training.
In the mean time, my daughter’s secondary school (high school), one of the best in the country, has a “state of the art” (according to the school) computer lab using only Windoze PeeCees. They are not allowed to access the internet or bring in CDs or floppys for fear of virus infection. The whole lab is an island. So I ask – what’s the point of having this “state of the art” system if students are so restricted? Apparently those in charge of the school are unaware that there is a better way. Who is really doing a disservice to the kids?