By John Masanauskas, Herald Sun
The launch of Apple’s new product on caused huge excitement with thousands of iPads bought over the weekend. But Melbourne’s Brighton Grammar has had one for two months as part of a research project on e-learning. The school’s community education director, John Phillips, said yesterday that the long-term goal was to phase out textbooks. “With the one device we’ve replaced textbooks, we’ve replaced the student diary, we’ve replaced the need for a graphics calculator,” he said. Mr Phillips said that a Melbourne IT firm and senior students were working on education applications to deliver course material through the iPad.
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