“Three dozen Maine high schools that chose to use local money to pay for laptops for ninth graders have received the computers and students can scarcely wait to get their hands on them. Principal Bruce Lindberg of Mountain Valley High in Rumford says kids come up to him every day asking when they’re getting their laptops,” AP reports.
“Thirty-one schools signed on to a state plan to lease the machines for 300 dollars each from Apple Computer. Five other schools brokered their own deals with Apple. The laptops were delivered in October. Teachers are training to use the machines and workers are installing wireless networks,” AP reports. “Mountain Valley, which leased 300 machines, has four technicians working to set them up. The school hopes to present them to students by December 1.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Happy students are better students. Ditto for the teachers and the technicians.
there was once a time when the word “laptop” meant a portable computer running WinDoze.. and the word “PowerBook” was used for a portable running Mac OS…
<*sigh*> …
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Skooldaze.
Good times.
When I was in school we had a piece of chalk and a blackboard. If we dared to ask for a book to read we were caned until we apologised unreservedly.
Kids these days, they don’t know they’re born.
Another market where Apple is losing ground. All of the private schools in my area have just about gotten rid of the macs. It really seems like they are dying off in the education market. At least they have the iPod.