By PARMY OLSON, Forbes
Fraser Speirs is a busy man. Having convinced Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, Scotland to buy more than 100 iPads and distribute them to all its students (age 5-17) earlier this year for class and homework, the private school’s head of IT is traveling around the United States to talk about his school’s experience with the Apple tablet. Having spoken at a conference at Virginia Tech, yesterday he was at a school in Savannah, Georgia that’s also “gone 1:1″ with the iPad, as he puts it. Later he’ll visit another in Lancaster, PA. He’s not trying to evangelize its use, he says, since there are plenty of schools interested in using the device a la Star Trek. This post is part of an ambitious project to crowd-source the January issue of Forbes Magazine. Click here to submit your own ideas for “Names You Need to Know in 2011.” The best will run in the magazine.
http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2010/10/29/names-you-need-to-know-in-2011-the-ipad-school/
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