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Thursday, June 20, 2013

L.A. To Give Every Student An Apple iPad; $30M Order

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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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 1:10 PM

    You are Kidding me right.

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  2. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 1:47 PM

    No, honestly, if you do the math, it's far less expensive than tradional textbooks for various subject areas.... And thanks to the Obama administration, all the new common core exams will be online with kids needing to cut and paste text references. Tough to teach those kind of skills when you only have 30 computers for a school of 1000.

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  3. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 2:10 PM

    Of course the iPad is the cheapest tablet that meets the specifications of an iPad.

    You can get cheap Android tablets that could function as books for about $100. There's nothing unique about the iPad that meets these needs. But those don't contain any iPad features written into the bid.

    This reminds me of the previous Talbot County Head. When she retired, one of her greatest accomplishments was assigning a Mac notebook to each student. She failed to mention that she had to lay off teachers to pay for it.

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  4. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM

    2:10 PM
    So some People received a lay off! Sometimes people in that business have to bite the bullet or fall on a sword for the sake of the children.

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  5. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 4:53 PM

    2:53 How is giving them POS ipads "for the sake of the children"? Textbooks work just fine. Taxpayers should not provide electronics for others children.

    This is LA, these ipads will be lost, broke, stolen, sold for drugs, etc within weeks. It's Commiefornia, what do you expect?

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  6. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 5:40 PM

    453, I doubt you've looked into the issue in much detail. Have you seen how much textbooks cost the school district. It's especially cumbersome when you consider updates.

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  7. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 8:04 PM

    And Pearson will make out just fine since they are creating the PARCC assessment.

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  8. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 8:12 PM

    No, 2:10, but the iPad mini is...

    This was all part of Steve Jobs master plan from the get go. Read Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson. Jobs has had this planned since the early 00's when he revolutionized and took down the music industry with the iPod and the iTunes Store. He pretty much said he was going to take down the textbook industry next. And though Jobs is gone, it's coming soon!

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  9. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 9:26 PM

    Just give it away....
    Look, drop an Ipad, it breaks. Drop a textbook, it's a textbook; drop it again. If it's not your money that bought it, it gets dropped. If you have to work for the money to buy it, (kinda like all the rest of us do) you will take care and not drop it.

    Well, that's just too hard to figure out now, isn't it?

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