Group: Defective by Design/Schools
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We're looking to compile a list of schools, universities and colleges that either require or supply DRM-laden hardware, such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad or Amazon Kindle. Feel free to add other DRM laden devices too, but these are the most commonly found.
Contents
Schools requiring
iPads
- Seton Hill University [1]
- George Fox University
- Abilene Christian University
iPhones / iPod Touch
- University of Missouri's School of Journalism [2]
Kindles
Schools Providing
iPads
- Stanford School of Medicine [3]
- Cedars School of Excellence [4]
- North Carolina State University Libraries [5]
- Duke University's Global Health Institute [6]
- University of Maryland [7]
- Reed College [8]
- Grandview Heights School District in Columbus [9]
- Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop High School [10]
- Long Island University [11]
- University of Maryland, College Park [12]
- University of Wisconsin - Madison (for sale in person) [13]
- Heritage Middle School, West St. Paul [14]
- Ideas Academy (High school), Sheboygan, Wisconsin [15]
- Lake Minneola High School [16][17]
- St. John the Evangelist, Hapeville [18][19]
- St. Thomas More, Decatur [20][21]
- Immaculate Heart of Mary, Atlanta [22][23]
- Our Lady of the Assumption, Atlanta [24][25]
- St. Jude, Sandy Springs [26]
- Notre Dame Academy, Duluth [27][28]
- East Richland Middle School [29]
- Wiregrass Ranch High School [30]
iPhones / iPod Touch
- Union College [31]
- University of Wisconsin - Madison (for sale) [32]
- University of Leeds - Medical School [33]
Kindles
References
- ↑ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/ipad-textbooks/
- ↑ http://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2009/05/07/missouri-journalism-school-requires-iphoneipod-touch.html
- ↑ http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=11167
- ↑ http://www.cultofmac.com/documenting-the-ipad-project-ipads-for-all-at-one-scottish-school/55246
- ↑ http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/07/ipad-goes-under-the-gauntlet-at-universities-this-fall.ars
- ↑ http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/07/ipad-goes-under-the-gauntlet-at-universities-this-fall.ars
- ↑ http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/07/ipad-goes-under-the-gauntlet-at-universities-this-fall.ars
- ↑ http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/07/ipad-goes-under-the-gauntlet-at-universities-this-fall.ars
- ↑ http://ohio.watchdog.org/360/columbus-area-schools-test-drive-expensive-ipads/
- ↑ http://www.macgasm.net/2010/04/20/first-u-s-high-school-to-buy-ipads-for-their-students/
- ↑ http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Univ-Ctr-PR/2010/July/UC-Press-Release-July30-2010.aspx
- ↑ http://newsdesk.umd.edu/uniini/release.cfm?ArticleID=2146
- ↑ http://techstore.doit.wisc.edu/ipad/?login=P
- ↑ http://www.twincities.com/ci_17904745?nclick_check=1
- ↑ Not posted on website! Heard from principal.
- ↑ http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/os-lk-first-day-school-adv-20110821,0,822131.story
- ↑ http://lake.k12.fl.us/lmh/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=498319
- ↑ http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2011/08/18/schoolipadprogram/
- ↑ http://www.sjecs.org/pro/event_view_rw.cfm?memberid=58&eventid=283
- ↑ http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2011/08/18/schoolipadprogram/
- ↑ http://www.stmga.org/200607/pages/technology.html#iPads
- ↑ http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2011/08/18/schoolipadprogram/
- ↑ http://www.ihmschool.org/news-a-calendar/school-calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2011/08/16/698/-/mandatory-8th-grade-ipad-meeting.html
- ↑ http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2011/08/18/schoolipadprogram/
- ↑ http://www.olaschool.org/Upload/Forms/OLACS%20Parent%20Student%20Handbook%202011-2012.pdf
- ↑ http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2011/08/18/schoolipadprogram/
- ↑ http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2011/08/18/schoolipadprogram/
- ↑ http://www.ndacademy.org/school-news/technologyinitiative
- ↑ http://www.olneydailymail.com/news/x1336438116/Grant-drops-iPads-in-laps
- ↑ http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/students-will-learn-from-ipad-2s-instead-of-textbooks-at-pasco-school/1186746
- ↑ http://bookstore.union.edu/shop_product_list.asp?mscssid=602E5B0DE40E4DB2AA74FF76D27CA0C9&catalog_id=160
- ↑ http://techstore.doit.wisc.edu/product.asp?itemnum=C53623&login=P
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11427317
- ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB124146996831184563.html
- ↑ Section in school newsletter stating that Kindles would be made available to borrow from the school library. The newsletter is not available on the website.
