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HP calculators for students in Idaho?
Post: #1
10-24-2012, 09:47 PM
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I saw this news.

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2012/oct/23/otter-luna-hp-officials-gather-hp-announce-major-partnership-laptop-contract/

I don't recognize the calculator in the photo. Is it even an HP? Is RPN going to be mainstream calculator for Idaho kids?

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Post: #2
10-24-2012, 10:02 PM
Joerg Woerner Offline
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Neither HP nor RPN - just a plain TI-30Xa.

Cheers, Joerg

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Post: #3
10-26-2012, 09:15 AM
Eddie W. Shore Offline
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I concur, the calcualtor is a TI-30Xa.

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Post: #4
10-26-2012, 10:27 AM
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Giving every high school kid in the school district a laptop computer will achieve only two things, neither of which is desired:

  1. it will give the kid yet another electronic device to play with
  2. it will waste a whole lot of taxpayer dollars

Throwing "technology" at schools does not increase the learning of students.

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Post: #5
10-26-2012, 11:14 AM
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Sounds like more "empowering with resources"......ugh.

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Post: #6
10-26-2012, 03:18 PM
Eddie W. Shore Offline
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Technology, with the right attitude towards using them, is awesome. The laptop is a tool just like everything else.

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