Georgia Senator Wants To Replace Schoolbooks With IPads

Somebody in Georgia has brains. Or at Apple. Either way, the kids in Georgia public schools are going to benefit from this joint venture between Apple Inc. and the legislative branch of Georgia looking to improve the education system.

“Last week we met with Apple Computers, and they have a really promising program where they come in and their recommending to middle schools – for $500 per child per year, they will furnish every child with an iPad, wi-fi the system, provide all the books on the system, all the upgrades, all the teacher training – and the results they’re getting from these kids is phenomenal.”

-Tommie Williams, Georgia State Senator

It looks like Apple is making some of the state senators in Georgia very happy. Apple is willing to furnish every student in the state with an iPad, as well as teacher training, Wi-Fi, and even the textbooks. This is unsurprising since the top education publisher, Pearson (Maker of the popular PowerSchool System that was bought from Apple), is porting all of its most popular books right to the iPad platform.

Williams then added that the state pays over $40,000,000 dollars a year in books, some of them so outdated that they don’t even have references or educate students about 9/11. This is what could provide the US the better technology it needs in order to combat increased competition in the Education world.

So far, it looks like Georgia is looking for money in the state budget to start the process. Is it just me but what happens when every state decides to switch to digital textbooks and we’re left over with all that paper.