I a nerdy person who will buy one. I might be able to get a few other people to get them also. My school won't because they do not want the new technology. They still have office 2003 no compatibility pack, Ti-82,83+,84. No 84+ or silver editions. My math teacher would love to be able to get them though if the school let him I believe.

Er the TI-84 doesn't exist. It skips directly from the 83+SE to the 84+.

Oh ok, lol.

Well hopefully with all these independent projects and pushes by communities for stronger and more versatile calculators we will see education finally start picking up the ball on technology. A lot of school technology tends to be ten-fifteen years behind (which is in part due to a rapid increase in technological development, but still). I think if education in the US at least embraces technology ten twenty years from now you wont be seeing calculators as we know it know like the ti 83's, 84's. Hopefully we will see more versatile, almost ipod touch type devices, that are interactive, touch screen up to date graphics and ability to easily connect communicate and then in turn learn
I saw this one school plan proposed where ipod touches would be provided free and they would act as the calculator, I mean they even hap a CAS app for it. So i hope these indie project push through and we can start to see these really interesting powerful, modern devices in the educational world.

well i mean if you have an ipod touch like device, you have an app that acts like a calculator and a teacher has to activate each in testing mode and to get out of it you have to have a password (which the teacher would have) it is certainly possible for pda's and ipod like devices. and i mean what is wrong with that?

well teachers have to learn how calculators work in their required workshops why not technology? and ok im not saying exactly a ipod touch a device like it (not necessarily wi-fi)

I would say that I think the future of learning is game-based learning. Learning through playing games, you know? So the computer industry and software design industry will have a heyday with that.

Not necessarily M-rated games, but games focused on the things being taught. It might soon be experimented with here in Maryland. But yes, I really wish that the teachers would teach us a bit of programming.

I guess that would make sense, but when I lived in western New York, our school had a small math game on the computers that forced you to know the processes behind the mathematics in order for you to advance. Idk if that could apply to say, reading but it definitely has advantages over conventional teaching methods.