WINTHROP – It seemed Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop GFW High School students couldnt get enough of the new iPad computers Thursday in Principal Jeff Bertrangs office.One student played the piano with a shortened keyboard on her iPad.Another student read a book on his iPad.Another student listened to Spanish words.Bertrang pointed out how definitions of words could be found on the iPad.The iPad – a wireless, touch screen, tablet-sized computer – was released in early April by Apple Inc.The school district allocated $267,748 to its technology fund to become what is believed to be the first school in the country to have the devices at a cost of $479 each.
(Winthrop is my mom’s high school alma mater!)
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