Maine buys 38,600 ibooks for Public Schools

Anderson Silva writes "I just found this piece of news on MacSlash, and since I live in Maine, and I own an ibook, I thought I would pass the word along: The Maine Learning Technology Endowment has announced today that Apple has won the bid to provide Maine 6th, 7th and 8th graders with Apple iBooks and Airport wireless connection points."

Comments

hmmm, social promotion???

[call -151]

From the article:

all seventh grade students and teachers will begin using portable, wireless computers in the Fall of 2002, and all eighth grade students and teachers will be equipped the following year

And maybe the year after that, the same students will get computers as 9th graders!

Re:headline should have read...

[cygnus]

Or hiring teachers that made better than a C average in college?

hell, if a C average is good enough for our President, it ought to be good enough to teach America's kids!!!

Re:The cost alone..

[Heem]

Trust me. I work for a BioTech. Most of the company has at least one PhD. Having a PhD does not make you smart or realize that your computer is not actually plugged into a valid power source.

Re:Eh ? Point Please ?

[BrookHarty]

38,600 computers is a pretty large public purchase, so ya, its news worthy.

But in other news, Bob bought a ibook too.

Re:The cost alone..

[Nate Eldredge]

I work in the It department for my school...

Wow! Your school already has an entire department dedicated to that funky scooter-unicycle thing? I heard it was going to take over, but I guess you're really ahead of the curve!

Wow, who knew?

[sulli]

Apple won a bid to provide iBooks? I bet the competition was really fierce.