The educational environment in the USA "embraces" new technologies, such as a school district in San Diego decided to purchase no less than 26.000 iPad tablets that will be sent to 340 classrooms starting next year. The entire investment amounts to 15 million dollars, but the amount is lower than what would normally be paid by a company, because through the educational program of the Apple company schools benefit from a 30$ discount when purchasing each iPad tablet .
Nearly 26,000 Apple iPads will go to San Diego Unified School District classrooms this fall in what is being considered one of the largest iPad deployments for K-12 schools in the country. Educational applications are already available for tablets like the iPad, but iBooks turn reading, writing and arithmetic into an interactive experience. The iBooks allow students to highlight, turn notes into study cards and receive teacher updates.
Don't think, however, that the San Diego school district will purchase the latest version of the iPad tablet, because the iPad 2 was chosen for this investment and the reduced price of the tablet played an important role here. By using these tablets, schools will save quite a lot of money in the coming years because they will no longer have to purchase books for students, who will be able to use tablets and applications without problems during class.
