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Maine Laptop Program a Success
Myoglobinologist writes "The New York Times has an article about how the State of Maine purchased $37 million worth of iBooks from Apple. The article states that the kids have adapted quickly to the laptops, attendance is up, and there is even heart-warming testimony from some politicians that were opposed to the project." We've done several previous stories about this initiative (they were originally considering custom-designed thin client machines - probably a good idea to go with off-the-shelf systems), and it's interesting to see how it has panned out.
About time school kids had more apples.
Omnis amans amens
All I have are 20 pounds-worth of big old books. Then again, though.. where I live, we might be expected to use bookcovers, since they are "iBooks"... *mutters about small country towns*
That's like an apple a day, every day, for a long time! The dentists'll go out of buisness soon enough...
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
... Maine saves $1 million dollars on removal of all trash cans from their classrooms.
Why would you ask us to post the article for you if you can't read it anyway ? Tsk tsk, trolls these days...
beauty is only a light switch away
we'd end up having a bunch of kids with 3rd degree burns on thier laps.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Heck, I swear if you taught a kid some assembly on an X86, and they found it remotely fun, they will be hacking out FFT algorithms under three monthes.
This afinity of kids with technology is amazing. It is a wonder why most of them don't apply it to piano lessons, though.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
mark_lybarger (199098):
> put windows into the factory and morale goes up, production goes up.
What kind of site is this, and where have you hidden the real Slashdot?
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*** NO CARRIER
Do you like German cars?
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The pupils gave the teacher an apple. Looks like it's the other way round now.
will be turned into nerdy geeks. It is well known that geeks don't reproduce. Biological existence of Maine is in question. Are they nuts?
State of Maine purchased $37 million worth of iBooks from Apple
Just 4 days later, Apple offered the same laptop with double the memory, 100MHz faster CPU, AND a SuperDrive for $100 less
put windows into the factory and morale goes up, production goes up
Really? They tried to make ME use Windows and my production went way the hell down. Kudos to Main for going Mac instead!
do not read this line twice.
Sales of combat boots from local Maine footwear retailers are expected to sky-rocket.
At least your state isn't building the world's most expensive underground freeway for over $20 billion. I think that EVERY state should build an underground freeway in their largest city, just to keep things "fair".
Lasers Controlled Games!
I heard that the governor, who is a bit computer-illiterate, was especially and very pleasantly surprised to learn that the biggest download from kids was a software known as M.A.M.E. which, according to a kid whom the governor asks, stands for Macs Advancing Maine Education.
Congress? I doubt any of them know how to count back change properly either.
Are the teachers going to make them wrap up the laptops in brown paper covers?