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iPad a solid education tool, study reports
Christina Bonnington
CNN.com
January 23, 2012
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Main Ideas:
As the world is advancing, so is the technology in it. With these advancements on technology, schools are finally catching on updating their own arsenal of teaching tools. One item that is beginning to become hot in the teaching world is the use of iPads in school. App engineers are teaming up with textbook makers to create new interactive text books making things more appealing and easy to use for students. There have been some studies done regarding the use of iPads versus textbook users, and the numbers say it all, iPads are definitely the way to go. At this point in time more than 600 different school distracts has mad the switch to a 1:1 iPad program for their school, and that number keeps on growing. The only downside to all this is price, these gadgets cost about $500 per unit, a pretty hefty price if a district were to buy one per student. Hopefully when the next iPad comes to surface, the price of the older iPads will go down and ultimately make it easier for schools to adopt the iPad.
Conclusion:
To summarize, the introduction of the iPad to the school environment is a definite advancement, but price and acceptance is the next step to overcome. It is obvious that these new devices are causing a lot of talk among the education community. We are taking a big step towards the classrooms of the future.
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ReplyDeleteiPad's in the classroom as a learning tool sounds like a great idea. But $5oo per iPad per per student amounts to quite a bit for the school to spend. Although iPads are the way to go, the cost of textbooks are more efficient than those of iPad. With the new iPads coming out, and hopefully the price of the older ones going down, maybe we can have iPads as learning tools in our school.
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