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Schools currently pay about $300-400 per student a year for textbooks. With bulk purchasing, the price of laptops is dropping into that range.

The new emerging laptop schools look something like this:

• 1) These laptop schools have given up purchasing traditional big-brick textbooks, and instead are spending their funds on library materials, laptops and online resources;

• 2) Each student is provided with a laptop, which is maintained by the school IT Department; the machine usually stays in the school, but senior students have the option of taking it home.

• 3) Each laptop has wireless network access, so classroom use is allowed for study periods.

• 4) The school has several "Internet Cafes", including the library. These are wireless hotspots where students can work on their projects and research.

• 5) Full Web access is optional for senior students; otherwise students use subscribed content provided by the library/information centre, and by teachers and curriculum experts.

• 6) School buses are equipped with wireless Internet access.

• 7) Students can access the school infocentre from home using their library or student card.

• 8) Schools provide IT support for parents who want it.

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Further Reading

• Diary of a Laptop Student
• One Laptop Per Child
• Intel Classmate
• OLPC Wiki
• Schools Dropping Textbooks for Laptops
• Trading in Traditional Textbooks