Australian schools are required to guide high school parents to buy iPad

According to a TASS-Telecom, the management of a private school at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney high school will notify parents that starting in late January, the new school year, all students must attend classes with the iPad.

The school principal said that tablet computers Apple, which cost the Green continent, starts with $ 600, will have to replace textbooks and notebooks. Moreover, children will no longer have to carry around every day to school for a few pounds of textbooks.

Now Australia has a state program to provide students of all schools without exception, free laptops. But many private schools are moving away from laptops in favor of tablet PCs, touch screens are better suited for interactive children's education.

Yet still get tips iPad were advisory. Thus, the school in Sydney's Cathedral was the first educational institution of the country, which has made learning tablet binding. However, according to the director, there are no particular objections from parents is not an innovation.

Technological advances have not yet touched on the order of the final examinations. According to the rules of the Ministry of Education of New South Wales, where Sydney is located, final exams in schools written pen on paper.