French School Opens Apple iPad Lab
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Grenoble Ecole de Management, a French educational institution, has announced that they will be testing the "pedagogical advantages of the iPad" on 40 or so of their students from the beginning of September 2010 as part of their "innovation laboratory". Apart from the fact that they've already agreed on the fact that the iPad has inherent advantages compared to other learning media, the school sees the Apple tablet as a holistic learning solution. Béatrice...
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