Tablet Crunch

The popularity of tablet pc's in public schools continues to spread like wildfire.  Reports are out today that The Turkish government will supply approximately 40,000 schools with tablet computers, both students and teachers.  The initial shipment of 12,000 tablet pc's is expected very soon.  This initiative is called the Movement to Increase Opportunities and Technology project and ...

Hillborough school district in New Jersey looks like they are about to approve the purchase of approximately 700 tablets for their teachers.  This would allow every single teacher in Hillsborough to have his or her own tablet computer - which I think is awesome and very much needed in today's educational environment.  If nothing else, ...

You'd have thought that one of the most cutting edge middle-schools in the country would be found in eastern Iowa? Don't laugh, about 600 students at Waverly-Shellrock Middle School have been issued an iPad by the school district, including the teachers. Now, instead of books, notebooks, and other paper getting jammed into these middle-schooler's backpacks, it will ...

The Stamford CT school administration is considering an iPad pilot program for their eighth grade students and teachers.  They anticipate that the iPads will replace both the desktop computers in their computer lab as well as multiple text books that are now available as ebooks.  This means that they could see savings in both areas. ...

The Unified School District in Leavenworth, Kansas is has approved the purchase of 724 iPads for use in their school. 124 of the iPads will be for teachers and 600 for students. They are purchasing the iPads instead of math textbooks that were scheduled for purchase. Administrators anticipate that the iPads will also alleviate the ...

Amidst the furor of all the big telecom and Electronics giants falling over each other in showing-off their sleek, feature-packed but still expensive Internet Tablet devices, we encounter the rise of a humble, solar-powered, energy efficient Tablet designed for the rural Indian student. Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore alongwith Rice University, Singapore are planning on releasing ...