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This is a superficial treatment of a significant event in the life of this school. I hope teachers and admins were more thoughtful than is represented here.

Teacher Joel Levin has seen the positive effect Minecraft can have on relationships among schoolchildren - especially on those who would otherwise be dismissed for being too geeky. "Suddenly those computer skills become transferable into social capital," he says. Mr Levin is the co-ordinator of Minecraftedu which was set up to show how the game can be used in classrooms. About 1500 schools are now using it as a teaching aid and not just in computer science lessons.

Research paper on "the instructional power of digital games, social networking, and simulations" and "how teachers can leverage them"

Apple iPad

First thing I think is K-12 education. The schools, like where I work, that give each kid a laptop could make their money go so much further with these. Kids rarely do more than research online and word process. This could take care of that for $500

oooh....Would be pretty cool to have these! - just thinking of all the "on-the-go" activities you could have the kids doing!... and if you're really smart you could remotely track their learning/progress/engagement..... a tool that could really help teeachers take learning out of the classroom & into the world, and still manage the tedious recording & assesment requriements!

Professor uses game design principles in college classes.

Interesting article on the "Maker Movement" in STEM education. Really liked this last sentence, "It is our natural inclination to create as we learn and to learn as we create that is at the heart of this movement."