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Raleigh County Schools is at the helm of a voyage to saturate the district with enough Apple iPads to not just integrate technology as a tool for learning, but to change the way students learn and interact in the classroom.
Superintendent Jim Brown said a long meeting with Apple representatives on Tuesday has left the district ready to finalize a 5 year lease with Apple. Plans are to have that lease come before the board of education for consideration by May 28.
As it stands, the committee working on the Raleigh County and Apple partnership proposes to have one iPad for each student in the county in grades 2-12. They hope to have one iPad mini per every two kindergarten and first-grader, and one Macbook Air and iPad mini for school and district level administration, said Brown.
The iPad 2s that have already been purchased by the school district will be redeployed to second-graders and the first generation iPads will be returned to Apple for a cash value on the school’s lease, he said.
Brown explained that students will begin to have technology in their hands this September. He said tentative plans are that elementary schools will have iPads deployed around Sept. 9, middle schools around Oct. 21 and high schools in December.
I commend them for thinking in the 21st century and think this is a good idea, but I hope they have B.O.E. engraved on the back of each one and other security measures to prevent theft.
I commend them for thinking in the 21st century and think this is a good idea, but I hope they have B.O.E. engraved on the back of each one and other security measures to prevent theft.
I thought the same thing, surely they will keep them locked up in each classroom at the end of the day.
Will they have the band width to operate all these?
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