Posted on 06/19/2013 4:34:11 PM PDT by artichokegrower
NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks.
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least expensive option that met its specifications.
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You can’t tell me the Kindle Fire wasn’t significantly less expensive and just as capable. Sounds like Apple’s people won the graft war.
Nothing but the best for the children of Mexico.
Lost, broke, stolen, not charged, forgot it at home, pawned, riddled with virii, porn ... what could possibly go wrong?
Watch STD’s, pregnancies rise %199. Ipads in Teen hands are for SEXTING. Case closed.
Who ordered the solar recharging units.... We are having multiple brown-outs....if you get my drift...
Less fuss than chippin’ ‘em.
So are they also going to provide free wi-fi to all of the students so they can use them at home, and what percentage of these ipads have they figured to be “LOST” to the street market.
Prezactly.
“Made in China” ping.
Absolutely. The text book companies are merging and merging until there arevery few left, and those are downsizing. My son in law has been in that business for 30 years. He was just downsized out.
Texts can now be edited. No hardcopy, no history.
“Watch STD’s, pregnancies rise %199. Ipads in Teen hands are for SEXTING. Case closed.”
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Would they not be custom made to make such functions unusable?
While my first reaction to the news was one of disgust, I have to admit that times have changed since I was a student, and electronic textbooks are obviously going to become common, not to mention cheaper then printed books.
They will, however, be easier to loose or damage.
I’ll give it a couple months, but I wonder what one will cost me on the street?
Just when you figured it couldn’t get any more absurd.
Where do they get the money? Between feeding them 7 meals a day, giving them condoms for free, giving them the morning after pill for free and now $500 iPads?
History is constantly changing so paper books are not keeping up with progress :)
Well, I use the Kindle app on my iPad [and iPhone], but that's still no reason to give them to young-skulls-full-of-mush. Books still work and they're cheaper.
All of which matters not if "educators" are convinced that the delivery-method is more important than the content.
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