HP calculators for students in Idaho?

[hpnut]

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?

[Joerg Woerner]

Neither HP nor RPN - just a plain TI-30Xa.

Cheers, Joerg

[Eddie W. Shore]

I concur, the calcualtor is a TI-30Xa.

[Don Shepherd]

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.

[Ethan Conner]

Sounds like more "empowering with resources"......ugh.

[Eddie W. Shore]

Technology, with the right attitude towards using them, is awesome. The laptop is a tool just like everything else.