When I was completing the internet portion of Interactivity 5, I noted that the teacher mentioned that iPads were going to be incorporated into the curriculum. I will admit, I was a little dumbfounded, due to the expense of such a piece of technology, especially to provide them to the students. Besides financial concerns, there were concerns of student responsibility. What if a student breaks it due to misbehavior, or even simply by accident?
Additionally, but I am not entirely sure how many students are knowledgeable in using iPads in an educational manner. They know plenty about Facebook and Twitter, but do they know anything about DragonSpeak (educational voice recorder) or SlideShark (post and share Powerpoints)? Hopefully, they can learn in a timely fashion, specifically before they are distributed.
What do you guys think?
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