You can buy a lot of library books for the price of a computer lab.
My rural, moderately low SES (approx. 30% Free and Reduced Lunch) elementary school has a full-loaded computer lab and *ten* technology- focused regular third and fourth grade classrooms (each equipped with 16 desktop computers, an interactive SMARTboard, scanners, printers, high-quality Internet video-conferencing unit, etc). Computers are replaced with brand new machines on a three or four year rotation.
Including the lab, that's 185 machines just begging to have software installed on them in *one* grades 2-5 school serving just under 400 students. A ratio of nearly 1 computer to every 2 children, not counting teacher workstations and the networked mini-labs of two to four slightly older machines in each of the non-technology classrooms.
Plenty of other schools have similar setups. Considering the number of children in schools, the potential sales become mind-boggling pretty darn quickly.
Besides, who needs books when you have the Internet? ;-P J. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
