| Many U.S. schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Apple says more than 600 K-12 school districts have launched iPad programs—with two-thirds of them beginning since July. For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut’s suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer. A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston also will start the year with new school-issued iPads, each loaded with electronic textbooks and other online resources in place of traditional bulky texts. While iPads have rocketed to popularity on many college campuses since Apple Inc. introduced the device in spring 2010, many public secondary schools this fall will move away from textbooks in favor of the lightweight tablet computers. |
| Source: eSchool News (USA) | Published: September 6th, 2011 |
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