“New Hampton School announced that all incoming ninth-grade students in the fall will receive an Apple iPad as part of a pilot program to improve technology integration in the classroom,” WMUR reports.
“The program was funded by a reunion gift from the school’s class of 1960. The school will evaluate the program to determine whether it should be expanded to all students,” WMUR reports. “School officials said the iPad’s slim design, speed and available software allows it to provide access to textbooks and other useful tools. Students will be able to create and share work easily, the school said.”
WMUR reports, “New Hampton School is an independent, co-educational, college preparatory secondary school of 310 students from 30 states and 20 countries.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kirk” for the heads up.]
I need to go back to school.
Hello??? Anybody other than Richie in here?
As an incoming high school freshman, we were excited to have 33 MHz 386s which were then replaced with 33 MHz 486s. We were so excited. We were like, “AutoCad is gonna scream! We will be able to render this fly through in a day!” lol
Now kids get iPads.
@ditchdoc68 – I think everyone is frantically trying to pre-order their iPhone 4s (which, thankfully, I’ve FINALLY been able to order.)
i wish i hadn’t read this article. it just reminded me that this week is the 50th anniversary of my grade school graduation.
Peter
Me too, 52 years in fact. What I remember is the first electric typewriter when I was a HS freshman in 1954. We had a type class of about 30 but only two electric machines. What a great day when it was my turn with one of them. Fell in love with it. I may be the only straight guy in my school that took 4 years of type. I got up to 84 words per minute. Still pretty good at age 70. Now I love the iPad. Always something to look forward to.
I went to prep school in NH, Phillips Exeter. We had a PDP11, and two terminals, no monitors.
Heck we were still using slide rules when I went to college. And I hated lugging around those stone tablets and mallets to take notes.
Yeah when I went to school there were no cars yet and we had to hit stones to make fire to cook the mamoth for lunch.
I need to go back to cheer camp. The camp cantina served a perfect tuna melt wrap everyone called Mrs. Morty Handelman. Crunchy and so soft.
When I was a freshman “Wipe Out” by the Safaris was a new hit. Geez!
He said, “incoming.”
New Hampshire giving out iPads?
I’d have thought that in New England’s official Redneck State they’d be passing out deer rifles or boxes of thirty-aight-six ammo.
Live Free or Die?…. gimme a break!
I grew up in Boston and that slogan is an embarrassment to all civilized New Englanders!
@Mr Reese –
Hate much?
I’ve been to Boston and New Hampshire and found more civilized people in New Hampshire. Too many crabby people with their hand out in Boston..
When deer are not hunted, they overpopulate, and spread disease. We wiped out their natural predators ages ago. Us hunting them is actually good for the species you dolt.
@Mr Reese
Boston is a great city under threat of being overrun by human trash like you. NH residents have a decency, practicality, and a character that escapes your kind and always will.
it’s actually called thirty-aught six.
As in .306 caliber, rifled rounds.
And passing out a rifle or ammo does no good.
You need both, at once.
Otherwise, all you are is a “poser”