iPads For All EGHS Students Would Cost $550,000
Advantages include ability to better gear course material to each individual student as well as up-to-date material; outcome data scarce.
Teachers and administrators from East Greenwich High School gave a lengthy presentation to the School Committee Tuesday night about the benefits of providing every student at the school with their own iPad. The only catch? It won't come cheap. According to Supt. Victor Mercurio, the total cost of the one-time purchase of iPads for the entire school would be $550,750 – including the iPads themselves, protective casing, and professional development for teachers. In addition, Mercurio said, the district would want to add one full-time and one half-time staff member to support the endeavor, at a total cost of about $100,000. That may or may not be temporary, he said. Each student would "own" their iPad, so new purchases for incoming …
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Renu Englehart
8:33 am on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
We are big fans in this house of the Google Nexus tablet, brand new half the cost of the Ipad. Further I'd like to see some consideration for open source software. I would think one of the biggest things is licensing software for so many tablets, I use Open Office and LibreOffice with rarely a problem. To piggyback on Eric's comment, Google Drive at least lets kids keep their work on the cloud as… more ›