Microsoft has launched its Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL) initiative with the aim of providing every school pupil in the UK with a notebook PC. Mike Fitton, CEO of ABK, a Cheshire-based company renting notebook PCs to schools, said: "AAL...
The school district is recommending that the board implement the laptop purchase in stages, with the first phase consisting of giving laptops to teachers and to four schools on a test basis, according to a statement posted on the district's website.
The district's board gave initial approval for a first round of laptop purchases for teachers and four pilot high-schools. Apple announced in February that it was on the verge of striking a deal with the Cobb County School District that would...
It's not just kids that are taught how to use technology in schools - teachers and education authorities are learning that IT can help them with their jobs too. Rotherham LEA plans to run the pilot for one academic year, until July 2006.
Speaking in Berlin, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates outlined plans for the company's Partners in Learning project to reach three times as many students, teachers and schools globally as it has done so far.
Speaking last month, a leading academic called for the IT curriculum in schools to be overhauled as he claims "boring" ICT classes which focus on Word and Excel are turning teenagers off IT as a career.