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The following is my report to our Board of Trustees offering a general rationale for our the shift to iPad - 1 to 1 computing.  

The purpose of this report is to present to the Board the rationale and progress of the moving the School to a One to One computing platform using the iPad. 

Background

Xaverian’s genesis was in the midst of the Cold War. The explicit expectation was that Xaverian…

It’s April and despite T.S. Eliot's declaration of this being the cruelest month, it has been shaping up to be anything but.  Here is where we stand.  370 days ago we didn't "know from iPads."  Now Xaverian is moving in to the 1st year of a 2 year roll out.  Here are a couple of the issues we are tackling.

We have been able to get iPads in the hands of about 1/2 our faculty with the rest getting them within the month.  The buzz is GREAT!

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This is on the Bklyn Diocesan Station showing the work we are doing at the school

We are the only Catholic school, that I know of, in the NY area that is aggressively moving to a One to One computing platform, using the iPad.  The more we move in this area - the more I am sure we are (to use the parlance of the kids) sooooo doing the right thing!

This week we have Fraser Speirs coming to…

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Xaverian Freshmen to get iPads

In Today's NY Daily news our school, Xaverian, highlighted.  Denis Hammil spoke of the School's commitment to cutting edge technology.   As I posted earlier, my school is getting ready for the first step of One to One computing with the iPad at the center of this.  

We chose the ipad because of several factors:

1.…