Macintosh in School Systems
- The future is
now for new high-tech school, Orange County Register, 8/1.
- Katy (TX) Independent School District
going Windows, 7/20. "Katy ISD, in Katy, Texas (a suburb of
Houston), is phasing out Macs. Over the coming years, installed
Macs will be replaced by Dell computers running Windows."
- Good
news from schools all over, MacCentral, 7/16. Peace Academy,
Hillel Academy, and Luxembourg happily using Macs.
-
District buys new computers, auctions off old, Bay City (MI)
Times, 7/15. "Nearly 100 MacIntosh computers will be up for grabs
next week . . . as the school system moves to an all-PC format for
consistent computing across the district." Another Mac loss, but an
opportunity to buy used Macs inexpensively.
- Apple
ranked number one brand in education study, MacCentral,
7/12.
- Scores
prove power of school's high-tech teaching, Ledger-Enquirer,
7/11. Each classroom has two Macs, and the school has a tech center
with 24 iMacs.
-
Oregon facing school funding crunch, Access Waco. "Walk into
the average classroom, and you'll see a MacIntosh computer that's
12 years old."
- We
need Macs in school for discovery's sake, Mac Observer,
6/29.
- My First Mac: From Apple II to
Macintosh, Mr. Dennis, Low End Mac, 6/23. "As a teacher I have
been using Apples since 1985...."
- More
Mac schools - and some defectors, MacCentral, 6/18. Looks like
the University of Michigan and the University of Tennessee at
Memphis may phase out Macs.
- Canadian
schools using iMacs, ehMac, 6/16. "I just returned from Nunavet
and every school that I visited was equipped with iMacs...."
- School
gives iMacs to students, MacCentral, 6/17. "...San Jose-Edison
Academy in West Covina, CA, where students get a new iMac computer
to use at home if they're third-graders or older."
- Toronto
schools make huge Mac commitment, MacCentral, 6/16. "The
Toronto Board of Education has made a huge commitment to the Mac
platform, possibly to the tune of 10,000 iMacs for Toronto
schools...."
- Macs
thrive at school, MacCentral, 6/11. Walter's State Community
College, University of Wisconsin Applied Superconductivity Center,
Television Studio at Fox Chapel Area High School.
- Macs
are in schools, MacSoldiers, 6/10. Many school districts
continue to prefer the Macintosh.
-
Laptop experiment turns freshmen on to learning, Star Tribune,
6/1.
- Macs
dominate wired Hong Kong school, CNNfn, 5/26
"They are very user friendly. They are quite versatile - children
take to them quite instinctively, and they require far less
maintenance time than PCs do."
- Follow Up, St. Charles School,
MacInSchool, 5/5
"...as a result of a request for Macs for my daughter's school, the
Mac community came through with about 50 computers!"
- iMacs in
education, No Beige, 5/3
"All in all, the iMac is a great educational machine...."
- St. Charles School Needs Macs,
MacInSchool, 4/27
- Schools
going Mac in a big way, MacCentral, 4/23
Willow School District (Ann Arbor, MI), East Noble School District
(Noble Co., IN), New York City "between 20,000 and 30,000
iMacs"
- Internet
telethon will help school buy computers, Mac Observer,
4/21
"The first of event for this project is going to help a school in
the Virgin Islands."
- Willow
Run (MI) board OKs lease of 183 iMacs, Ann Arbor News,
4/16
That's one per classroom in the school system, and all because of
Y2K!
- Holland
(MI) school system adding 200 new Macs, MacCentral, 4/16
"The Holland Public Schools systems in Holland, MI, is 90% Mac and
will continue to be so, says Mike Allgaier, director of
technology."
-
Schools, procurement wrangle over supplies, Washington Posts,
4/15
"District elementary school classrooms are finally getting more
than 1,000 new computers - seven months after they were supposed
to be delivered."
- Help a
teacher obtain an iMac, Mac Madness
"[My teacher] is on an LC, and it is slow and crashes all the time
and can hardly run anything. My school did buy 22 new Apple
desktops this year.... She even had to resort to putting a
Macintosh SE in the corner of her room because people ... need to
type reports and other things."
- Major
Mac education purchases in the U.S., Apple, 3/18
- Apple still #1 with K-12 schools, MacTimes, 3/18
- Macs in
schools - the battle may be tougher than you realize, Fargo
Fanatic, 3/17
- Apple launches
Imagine ezine for K-12 educators
- School
goes iMac, MacCentral, 3/2
- Superintendent
bashed for buying Macs, MacCentral, 2/4
- Macs Needed for School in Hospital,
1/26
- South Kitsap follow up, 1/21
- South Kitsap (WA) School District under
fire, 1/19
- UK teachers
vote for iMac, JeMacUse, 1/17
- Racine County
picks Macs for schools, Journal Times, 1/12
- Schools
system where "iMacs cost a dime," MacCentral
- Laptops
improve learning, MacCentral
- How to "think different" at school, iTeen, the iMac.com
- Quitman
County Schools and Macs: size does matter, MacCentral
-
Apple largest educational hardware vendor, Business Wire
- Laptops
for teachers in $100m deal, The Age
- Macs #1
in Australia's NSW schools, MacCentral
- Apple to
conduct workshops at EDUCOM98, MacCentral
- Don't give your kid that Mac!, MacTimes
- Schools
embrace Mac for simple reason: cost, Arizona Central
- Irrational Mac hatred - and how to fight it, MacOS Daily
-
Should schools use Macs or PCs? - results, ZDNet poll
- Russell
Elementary excited about new computers, Mining Company
-
Back to school PCs, ABC News
- Study shows
24% of Win95 users in education like Apple, MacCentral
- "What do I do,
Daddy?," Robert Paul Leitao, ATPM
"The real concern should be what computer is best suited for
today's educational curriculum and what computer represents the
best long-term value."
- New Macs
score high in schools, TechWeb
"...more schools are planning to buy Macintosh computers this year
than last year."
-
G3 Macs at school, AppleLinks
-
Apple education sales up, San Francisco Gate
- Why
Rockingham County Public Schools Buys Macintosh
- Nashville
Public Schools
- Ramapo
Indian Hills Regional High School
- Florence, South
Carolina
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- How to keep
Macs in our schools, AppleBits
- Apples For
Teachers
- Schools
in Need
- Macs for
Education, a five year study on computers in education by
Michael J. Johnson, Ph.D.
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