Posted on 10/02/2013 1:39:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
A crutch? iPads have given me the opportunity to create amazing research projects. The net books that the freshmen have are crap. They rarely work. The iPads are consistent and there are rarely network issues. On the iPads we have textbooks at a fraction of the cost. Any unknown words can automatically be defined. I can create assessments that require responses based on observations found on any Internet site. Right now my gov class is learning about democracy. I “gave them” a country recently liberated from a dictator via civil war. There are many defined issues but as citizens of other democracies, they must research, analyze, and describe why the particular style of democracy they chose is best. This is extremely simplified due to time, but I wouldn’t be able to do this without tech in the classroom. My personal issue has always been this: If the tax payers are on the line for something, I’m going to use the hell out of it. The taxpayer is the most important link in the chain. Baby crying, short on time!
As the husband of a former HS teacher, this is exactly the truth.
They will start “checking out” the IPads to teachers and other employees, who will start to return them at longer and longer intervals until finally they never come back. The district won’t think there’s enough value to follow up/retrieve, and the employees will end up with cool gadgets on the taxpayers dime.
if the taxpayer is the most important link, abolish government schools
There are teachers like me who are approaching their Dagney Taggart moment. I got into education for so many good reasons, and then discovered how unions and the left pervert things. Don’t lump us all together please! Again, fussy baby girl = short explanation. I hope I get some sleep tonight! I keep reminding myself that these are the days to which I’ll look back with fondness lol!
I’m not lumping you anywhere. Public education is what I was talking about
Technology has it’s place in schools, but when you see class after class being run through a computer lab day in and day out and then enter a classroom with kids on computers playing “educational” games, one has to wonder if the education is really a quality education.
Funny thing is, those kids grew up with computers, so they know how to hack
Thank you!!!!... that was my first thought.
Or they sold them.
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