It's pretty clear from the article, that what is meant is, the students are receiving the iPads at no additional (direct) cost. The students, and their parents are not being told "here's your iPad, give us $300"."FREE" lol They just fall off trees.
The iPads are not free. Somebody is paying for them.
Apple's latest attempt to teach Siri to understand drunken slurred speech.
Do grow up.Apple's latest attempt to teach Siri to understand drunken slurred speech.
See post #43 above. The evidence we have is that this kind of thing will have a modest impact. The question, though, is whether that impact justifies the money relative to other initiatives that might be undertaken, such as hiring more teachers or providing better salaries for teachers so that they are truly valued as the professionals they are.
Let me put it this way: What do iPads solve that books, good verbal teaching, and interacting directly with students does not? The University I work at is over half a millennium old, and when I hear the pro-IT guys spout off about the benefits of these machines to education I think 'My god. How did we ever survive the last 500+ years without IT?'.
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It would be interesting to compare a modern education filled with IT vs a classical style education. With say 1000 students on each all the way from primary through high school. The classical education being in style but modern material. Learning about the four humors and ancient Greek would hardly be beneficial.![]()