I've heard through the grapevine about a new blog that Microsoft has started that is similar to Channel 9. Guess what it is called? 10. I wonder if they are going to name a show called 11 next??
Anyways, 10 did an interesting bit on Forest Ridge School in Bellvue, Washington. Forest Ridge is an all girls school and has recently required 5th grade students to have Tablet PCs in order to participate in class. The interesting part about this is that the school doesn't pay for the tablets. Instead the parents must purchase their child's Tablet PC. According to the video on 10, classes have been paperless since they have switched to Tablet PC's and everyone is happy about the switch, even though there are some technical difficulties at times. You can view the video here. I know the State of South Dakota was at one point thinking about requiring Table PC's in some public K-12 schools. I couldn't find any articles searching through Google on it, so if you know of any articles dealing with that please post a link in the comments section.