One iPad per child: Seton Hill to give all students iPads

For the coming Fall 2010 semester, first-year undergraduates at Seton Hill University will be receiving a 13” MacBook coupled with an iPad (costs included in their tuition/fees, rumored ~$500 extra).  Current students will receive just the iPad (tuition/fees, ~$300).  All textbooks will be available via the iTunes store.

This is flipping AWESOME.  Not only are these students getting one hell of a price discount on these technologies, they’re our guinea pigs!  I can’t wait to see what comes of this blend of technology and education.

The Partner picked up an e-book reader, a Nook, just yesterday, and I was day dreaming how wonderful it would be if I only had to drag my netbook and an e-reader to class.  I’m so tired of my current 900-page textbook I could cry on your shoulder about it.

However, for e-readers to fully replace textbooks, you have to be able to make notes by hand on them—circle/underline important parts, cross out crap you don’t need, highlight other parts, etc.  Will you be able to do this on an iPad?

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