“No child will live without an iPad by the year 2013. And no parent will be spared the expense of buying that iPad… or, if their child is prone to losing things, insuring it,” Rick Feneley reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.
“This, at least, is the new edict at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in central Sydney, which informed parents this week that it would require all students in years 7 to 10 to own an iPad from next year,” Feneley reports. “While that will set parents back $597 per iPad, the school expects hard-copy text books will be redundant within a few years, replaced by e-books that will offset the cost – and spare their children’s backs. Almost all they need will be contained in that one tablet.”
Feneley reports, “Several private Sydney schools are moving to compulsory tablets or other touch-screen computers, convinced they are vastly superior learning tools to the heavier laptops that were given to every year 9 to 12 student under the federal government’s $2.4 billion Digital Education Revolution. Learning becomes agile. With wireless connections, a biology lesson could happen on a headland as well as in a science lab.””
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MacDailyNews Take: Smart parents demand Apple iPads. Accept no substitutes.
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