iBooks given to 1,100 San Jose students
updated 02:10 pm EDT, Wed October 15, 2003
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10/15, 02:24pm |
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AFTER 4th & 5th graders..
After the 4th & 5th graders get laptops, will they start selling ice to eskimos?
I mean, I'm a mac-head, but do 4th & 5th graders *really* need their own laptops?! IMHO I wonder if hiring more teachers/smaller classrooms and similar measures might be more effective...
Then again, what do I know? I still like "new" coke better.
heh
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10/15, 02:25pm |
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not salary money
One of the things the article points out is that the funds being used for the computers would not have been available to pay for salaries or other costs.
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10/15, 02:59pm |
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I think this is good news
I like seeing how many more schools and school destricts are turning around and looking at Macs again. With OSX the computers can be customized to their needs, and they will still provide ease of use to all the kids. I think Apple is definitely doing the right thing with pushing computers to education. many people I know still talk about how much they likeds their Macs a while back in school...maybe this will be a great time to consider the "switch" for many people.
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10/15, 03:51pm |
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San Jose isn't far away
I'm going to go push these kids down and take their laptops.
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10/15, 07:00pm |
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Story correction...
the term "One-on-one" is incorrect. It's actually "One-to-one" as in a ratio of computers to kids. One computer to one student.
a correction to the story would be oh so appreciated. :) Thank you for your coverage! -Apple Education Marketing...
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10/15, 07:30pm |
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well well
gunderson high school is in SJUSD, my school district. most of the teachers at pioneer high (another school in that district) would rather spend money on books, which will last much longer than notebooks. one of the main reasons gunderson high got ibooks is that they are not performing very well relative to the rest of the other high schools. it doesn't matter anyway, since only two schools are performing well: leland high school and pioneer high school.
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10/15, 07:31pm |
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oh yeah
SJUSD has so far been very mac-oriented (mainly because they get free apple tech support, or so i hear)
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10/16, 01:03am |
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That's very close to . .
Silicon Valley; in the SF bay area . . . the technology level is the most amazingly pervasive in the world. A few Mac volunteers for school would be easy to find! Have fun, kids!
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cost
the computers cost is 1.496 million. the other 4.5 million go to expenses like insurance,infrastructure, training and software... damn, thats alot of money, and far exceeds the costs of the laptops... How much does it cost to train them monkeys? I thought they were easy to use?