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Maine buys 38,600 ibooks for Public Schools

Posted by chrisd on from the maine-kids-are-31337 dept.

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."

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  1. hmmm, social promotion??? by call+-151 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!
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  2. Wow, who knew? by sulli · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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