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BY ADAM FALK
ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY

A new survey of tech directors in U.S. school districts reveals an iPad takeover in schools isn’t far away. The countdown - 5 years. AppleInsider reports.

“The school districts represented in the survey have about 10 students per computer, but in the next five years, IT directors for school districts expect they will have about six students per iPad.”

Although the tablets won’t completely replace computers, the survey shows they will outnumber them. But more importantly for Apple CEO Tim Cook and company, 100% of respondents said they were using iPads - not Android-based tablets. All Things Digital qualifies the survey findings.

“Now to be clear, this was a small survey. The sample size was only 25 — though, as noted by [the analyst] who conducted it, the population of IT decision makers in the education field isn’t exactly vast. So that 100 percent metric is more a directional indicator than anything else.”

The reason for Apple over Android? The analyst behind the survey says the earlier release of Apple’s device gave the company a “first mover advantage.” He notes in the report...

“‘We also see a trend in education (which is mirrored in the enterprise) that familiarity with Apple devices among students (or employees) is causing a demand pull within institutions to also provide Apple devices.’” (PC Magazine)

As Apple’s departing retail chief Ron Johnson has said previously, this could be the first step in replacing that 10 pound backpack - give or take a history book - with a 1.3 pound iPad. But a writer for Fortune says...

“Given the huge problems facing America's schools, it’s a slender thread on which to base a vision of broad educational reform.”

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