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An Arizona high school is set to become one of the first ebook-only schools, as it preps to hand out laptops to 350 students this fall. The cost for the laptops at Vail High School will be about $850 per student, compared to about $600 for textbooks. The school plans to supplement electronic versions of traditional textbooks with online articles assigned by teachers. Meanwhile, we assume the students are already planning for in-class LAN parties over the school’s WiFi network. (Oh, and that’s Vail, Arizona, not Colorado, so don’t even think about moving there if your plans are to get a free lappie and hit the slopes.)

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07-11-2005 07:44 PM
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That's really cool, our school is beginning to do things like this, by 2006, every student is hoped to have a laptop and no books...
07-11-2005 07:48 PM
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* M73A considers moving to Arizona *-)

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Wow ! Now THAT'S what I call progress !
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ya i saw that on the news or somthing which i thinks is really cool
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A nice idea, my school's still way off doing something like this...the best I've heard of is the remote possibility of USB memory key loaning in the future, for this web-development GCSE DIDA course...

It'd be nice to have a laptop with a WiFi instead, simply because your work would be backed up on a server, so there would always be a copy of everything. This idea would be really good for revision, having all your notes at the tips of your fingers without having to go through books, everything perfectly organised. Well, at least my kids will have something like this, hopefully.

pffft...they're macs :refuck:
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Right now I am wishing I went to that school....
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Cool... An emerging ESchool
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RE: Arizona School ditches text books
we use laptops at my school. but we have textbooks also. if we buy our own computer we don't have to pay for books. if we borrow a computer from school, we have to pay for textbooks.
we use them more as toys than what they're meant for.
I want what I haven't got.
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