On Monday, January 28, 2013, I visited the Punahou School in Honolulu, HI. Punahou is a 1:1 MacBook school and is a featured school on the Apple website. Along with laptops, they are using classroom sets of iPads. I observed an anatomy class in which the kids were using the Apps Pancreas and Liver 3D, Anatomy Quiz Pro, and Pocket Heart, part of a group called Pocket Anatomy.
They manage the laptop program by leasing the MacBooks to each student for a period of three years, thereby maintaing ownership and complete control of what is installed. At the end of each school year, the computers are collected, "cleaned," and reissued for summer school, then, again, in the fall. Each student is charged a technology fee of $575 per year for support, hardware, and software updates.
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