“For more than 1,000 pupils the essential checklist of pens, notebook and PE kit is soon going to be joined by an iPad,” The Dartford Messenger reports.
“Longfield Academy has become the first school in the UK to provide all its pupils with iPads,” The Dartford Messenger reports. “While some schools have already given the high-tech gadgets to some of their pupils, Longfield will the first to offer them to all 1,400 students, when new academy buildings open in September.”
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North Carolina’s “Montlieu Elementary Academy of Technology just got way cooler,” Sara Gregory reports for The News & Record. “Starting this fall, every teacher and student at the school will be outfitted with their very own iPad… The school’s 480 students will use the iPads — white, with light blue covers, to match the school’s colors — in nearly all their classes.”
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Gregory reports, “The project is about more than just giving iPads to students and teachers, said Kim Scott, the school’s magnet facilitator. ‘It’s really going to transform the way our teachers teach,’ Scott said.”
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“Teachers and students in Powell schools [in Wyoming] will have the latest technology in hand this fall when each student in the middle school and the high school will be issued an iPad,” Don Amend reports for The Powell Tribune.
“The program, which also would provide three carts, each containing 30 iPads, for each of the elementary schools, was approved by the Park County School District No. 1 board on the recommendation of Superintendent Kevin Mitchell at its June meeting,” Amend reports. “In approving the program, the board authorized spending $722,000 for the purchase of 1,180 second-generation iPads, the carts, which will store and recharge the devices, and Apple Care service from Apple. Mitchell said federal funds from Title I and Title VI B will provide $197,000 toward the purchase and other federal funds may be available as well.”
Amend reports, “Superintendent of Schools Kevin Mitchell said the iPads will provide multiple benefits for students and teachers. ‘Staff and students will use the iPad to engage in teaching and learning,” Mitchell said. “Students will use the iPads to develop skills necessary for working in the 21st century. Immediate access to information on the World Wide Web will be beneficial to staff and students.'”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “krquet” for the heads up.]