“A CO Mayo secondary school is getting rid of schoolbooks and replacing them with iPads,” John Fallon reports for The Irish Times.
St Coleman’s College in Claremorris, Co Mayo will phase Apple’s revolutionary iPads “into use from September, when all 90 first year students at the college will be given the option of using the Apple machine instead of a bag full of school books,” Fallon reports.
Fallon reports, “The value for money cannot be ignored, according to the school principal Jimmy Finn… ‘We received huge support from the teachers and parents for the idea – we had 96 per cent support – but in no way is this obligatory. Parents have the choice to go with the iPad or schoolbooks like it was always done.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Attribution: TUAW. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]