Thursday, October 26, 2006
Pencils, Pens, Notebooks, & An Ipod!
In Brearley School, a private school for girls on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, 8th graders were required to purchase an iPod as a required supply for their classes.
It was not long ago when the only requirements for back to school supplies consisted of only pencils, pens and notebooks. And sometimes the fun supplies like markers, crayons, etc. However, probably the most expensive supply i've had to buy as a student ( before college ) was the graphing calculator in high school, which the teacher sold to us for 90 dollars. Now in Junior High School, students are required to purchase an iPod as must have supply for the year.
I would have neer imagined that schools would actually require their students to make such a purchase. But this proved to me how serious this iPod revolution has become! Before completing my reading i was pretty amazed and felt that this requirementw was somewhat ridiculous. However, after reading Mark Glassman's article i've changed my mind and feel that adding the iPod to the back to school shopping list is actually a great idea. ( Plus its a good way to make your parents buy you an iPod!)
www.apple.com
"The 20-gigabyte iPod required by the school sells for $299 at stores but
was made available to students for $269 through Brearley with Apple's education
discount. Nonetheless, only 117 students purchased the device through the
school, and 95 rented it from the school at a cost of $50 per year. The rest
owned them already"
It was not long ago when the only requirements for back to school supplies consisted of only pencils, pens and notebooks. And sometimes the fun supplies like markers, crayons, etc. However, probably the most expensive supply i've had to buy as a student ( before college ) was the graphing calculator in high school, which the teacher sold to us for 90 dollars. Now in Junior High School, students are required to purchase an iPod as must have supply for the year.
"While Apple says Brearley's mandatory-iPod program is the first it has
heard of at the secondary-school level, there have been comparable efforts at
universities. This fall Duke issued an iPod to each of its 1,650 incoming
freshmen and has tried to incorporate the device into several courses, including
music, language and engineering. Last year, Georgia College & State
University began lending the devices to students for use in several humanities
courses."
I would have neer imagined that schools would actually require their students to make such a purchase. But this proved to me how serious this iPod revolution has become! Before completing my reading i was pretty amazed and felt that this requirementw was somewhat ridiculous. However, after reading Mark Glassman's article i've changed my mind and feel that adding the iPod to the back to school shopping list is actually a great idea. ( Plus its a good way to make your parents buy you an iPod!)
www.apple.com
