A report has surface stating that Senate President pro tem Tommie Williams is proposing new legislature to allow the textbooks of all their middle school students be replaced and managed by Apple and the iPad. Apple would apparently set everything up for them and keep things up to date. Williams goes into detail:
“Last week we met with Apple Computers, and they have a really promising program where they come in and their recommending to middle schools – for $500 per child per year, they will furnish every child with an iPad, wi-fi the system, provide all the books on the system, all the upgrades, all the teacher training – and the results they’re getting from these kids is phenomenal.”
When compared to conventional books and pricing he stated:
“We’re currently spending about $40 million a year on books. And they last about seven years. We have books that don’t even have 9/11. This is the way kids are learning, and we need to be willing to move in that direction.”
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