I work at a school in Western Australia that's starting a BYOD program for iPad's which is compulsory for all 2,000 students to have (eventually).
Each student has an iPad which their family has paid for, which the school provides apps through an MDM platform.
So far, marks are up and bullying is down.
Students are taking much more interest in their education.
So it's fine for you to all say how books will always be better than electronic displays...
... but what normal 12 year old want's to read a book these days?
This is so sad and pathetic. The value of a book cannot be replaced with an iPad full stop.
Just cut this crap and give a proper school, with proper teaching, and maintain a degree of discipline. A lot of children abuse their privileges, and blame the school for that. iPads can work well for textbooks and interactive programs, but should never take the job of the teachers.
I work at a school in Western Australia that's starting a BYOD program for iPad's which is compulsory for all 2,000 students to have (eventually).
Each student has an iPad which their family has paid for, which the school provides apps through an MDM platform.
Yeah cause students are really going to need 1024 levels of pressure support etc.
New age is upon us and frankly handwriting is dying out. Soon it will be merely an art form, voluntarily undertaken like many others. Get used to the idea
But no real stylus suport in iPad makes it quite limited for education.
Agreed. Apple really needs to complete the iPad hardware with a wacom digitizer layer to fully realize its potential as a creative device. Writing, note-taking, drawing, diagrams... education is creative.
You probably don't use books a lot. Not only is it not good for your eyes, but online reading makes it very hard to go forward and backwards over a large number of pages. [ ]
Just try to scroll from page 1 to 56 on an iPad.......RSI within a month
Kids still talk face to face in the same room. Why would you think they wouldn't?I agree with you wholeheartedly. It saddens me that two kids can be standing in the same room and would rather text each other back and forth than talk face to face. People have more FB friends then they do in their daily lives that they see face to face.
My mom used to say that. So did my grandma. So did my great grandmaI was replying to your post because it was sending out the message that schools using iPads will corrupt social interaction with the outside world. My reply was that it's already happening with FB and the like so schools won't be able to stop it at this point by keeping the kids interacting with teachers and physical books.
I shutter to think what the social world will be like 20 years from now.
Really, I am ashamed to be Dutch now.......
Why? And I am American but have been living in Amsterdam for 10 years now.
In that case, I suppose the other Dutch people are ashamed you are Dutch as well.
Sure, "kids today" are using mobile electronic devices constantly and have been for what, the last five years or so? Nowhere NEAR long enough to assess long-term physiological effects, much less effects on comprehension, attention span and a host of other factors.Oh come on, the kids today (and many people on this very forum) are buried in electronic devices almost every second of the day. You're taking this way too far as if it's the first time people are starting to interact with computers.
See, this is the problem...you act like you know. Parents and teachers frequently make this mistake.
You see how the kids love their iPads and iPhones at home, so you make the logical inference that when we put school work on iPads kids will love that. The problem is that it doesn't work.
I've seen kids ignore iPads for weeks at a time in this sort of environment. Just let them sit on a table. The first couple of days they're interested...yay iPads! Then they see they can't get the apps they want...then they see that flash games won't work....then they see the web is filtered like the rest of computers....and it becomes apparent iPads without games, music, the web suck.
That sounds excellent as long as it works. Are all of the reading materials on the iPad? They're attempting that in California, but so far, it hasn't been working well at all because you'd get only one or two textbooks on the iPad.
In New Zealand I've noticed that the schools are eager to have the students using laptops/iPads all the time during primary and the first couple of years of secondary school - but during senior high school they run into problems. The ministry of education still runs all exams in a traditional exam-room, and the students have to write their essays & do their tests with pens on pieces of paper. Therefore they have to practice writing fast & efficiently with a pen and paper (without making too many mistakes), kind of killing the whole "e-learning" thing, with the teachers making you go back to the old-fashioned way...
I think there is no scientific reason why there should be any difference between paper and iPad books for eyes.
But no real stylus suport in iPad makes it quite limited for education.
Yay. More kids that will forget what a pen looks like...
Just what we need. Point an touch, point and touch, point and touch... Builds character I bet
See, this is the problem...you act like you know. Parents and teachers frequently make this mistake.
The value in dollars can't, but the learning value can. What's the difference? This Netherlands school is about replacing teachers with iPads as well.
They're attempting that in California, but so far, it hasn't been working well at all because you'd get only one or two textbooks on the iPad.
You really think anybody's gonna give a crap about using MS Office in 10 years?Thousands of kids who have no idea how to use MS office. This bodes well for their employment prospects