“Within a few months, 4,500 Broward students — some as young as 9 — will be on the front lines of a technological revolution in the county’s classrooms. Each student in the pilot project will be issued an Apple iBook computer,” Steve Harrison reports for The Miami Herald.
“The School Board has spent $5 million from its capital budget for the iBooks — the first step toward putting a personal computer in the hands of every child in grades 3 to 12,” Harrison reports. “School officials caution they’re still working on details of what’s called one-to-one computing, which is planned for Monarch High in Coconut Creek, Miramar High, Attucks Middle in Hollywood and Broward Estates Elementary in Fort Lauderdale.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: More lucky students getting work done with their computers, instead of always having their computers worked on, is always good news.
lets hope they can figure out a way to use them to get ALL the votes counted correctly this November…
Now they can charge their iPods. Oh yeah, first post.
ibooks won’t save floriduh. powerbooks . . .maybe
MEDIA RECOUNT: BUSH WON THE 2000 ELECTION:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html
Anyone who believes otherwise is deluded.
Sure, Bush won the 2000 app^H^H^Helection.
5-4.
Why do you “first post” assholes never actually have the first post?
Also, I’m originally from Broward County. Be insteresting to see how long those iBooks last…when I was a kid Attucks was the school everyone was afraid of being sent to.
OJ,
That’s your opinion, not mine. I always win’em!!
Maybe the kids could use the iBooks to watch their nutty state supreme court, which tried to steal the election for Gore in 2000 before being stopped by the US Supreme Court. Why waste the time of the federal courts?
I wish I lived in the states – we never have anything like this available to UK students!
up yours cat person!
I won that election fair and square. My brother Jeb told me. Uh Hu.
People it is not the first time a president has been chosen by the Electoral college when the Popular vote said otherwise. It happened to FDR too. Besides is anyone going to say that Gore would have been a good president? He would have shat his pants on 9/11. So instead of pointing fingers, how about everyone take responsibility for their actions for a change and stop judging everyone else?
To piss off Opinionated Jerks and mdn doesn’t update quick enough.
Every school in the future should supply their students with an iBook and iPod. Just bring your own pencil and paper.
Red Wings. Not that I would have cared much for Gore either, but if he had been elected, there would have been NO 9/11.
first post is so pass�
last post is so in
last post
I am so over this talk about the Florida election recount in 2000. Yeah, Bush had more votes. But everybody seems to forget about the people who were denied their right to vote. Its happening again, too. There are a lot of people in Florida who have received letters this year stating that they are ineligible to vote. Many of them have been voting for years. Of course, the governor says he is looking into how these mistakes could be made. But I’m sure its not a top priority until after November.
How does anybody know how Gore would have handled 9/11? What made Bush such a great leader to many of you? Does standing on top of the rubble of the WTC and shouting out “We’re going to get them!” qualify the man as a great leader. Remember, on Sept. 10 Bush had horrible approval ratings. Just like Guliani did in New York. A day later, they’re considered great leaders.