Loading ...At the start of the year, all teachers received and administrators received iPads to help enhance the classroom experience.
Carole Kelley, previous principal, gathered donations from anonymous donors before she left for Washington D.C.
The new tablets have helped by giving the teachers more options to use technology.
“I love them. Instead of me taking paper and pencil when I go to a class to evaluate a teacher, I can take my iPad and do everything right there and send an email right as I walk out the door,” Principal Justin Hunt said.
The use of the iPads in each class is up to the teacher’s discretion. The goal for getting them is to have the teachers completely comfortable with the technology.
“The great thing about it is, right now we have 36 educators out there with iPads that all have a different way of using them and we’re all going to share our different ways and we’ll all come to an agreement with how we can use them across the board,” Hunt said.
Meghan Whitney uses the iPad in her classes to take attendance, keep track of dress code violations, check mail, put in grades, and she uses the calculator and an app with the periodic table of elements.
“I wish Microsoft would develop a suite of apps for the iPad, but until then it is a tolerable addition to my computer,” said Whitney.
By using education deals and buying the devices in bulk, the school was able to knock off $4000 off the total price.
The iPads are the third generation dubbed “the new iPad” by Apple. The iPads also came with a Bluetooth keyboard and case.
Manas • Mar 10, 2013 at 3:04 am
. I have never had it crash, though I have had to back mlyesf out of apps that seemed to have no logical next step. This was the result either of my ignorance or the fact that there is less of a standard user interface from app to app than there is in classical GUIs such as OS X and Windows. For the laptop lugging road-warrior, it should be noted, this is not going to be a full replacement. I now take my laptop and my iPad when I go into the college. But much of the time there, I use my iPad because it is so light, convenient and useable. I use it to teach my classes and often reference traditional texts from the iPad instead of lugging them along to class. I develop my own web pages on my 27 desktop which is the right environment for such development; I wouldn’t expect to do that on an iPad. In education (and evidently in medicine), it is proving to be a real boon. The enterprise situations where portable information access and transmission are critical will find this a compelling solution. The heavy Photoshop user or music track editor will still need a conventional computer, either laptop or desktop. I purchased the 64GB version, which may be more storage than I need. But since it will drive my 50 screen downstairs I figured I would begin to load lots of pictures and favored music, so it may prove a wise choice in the long run. It can swallow up entire evenings with the music-augmented slide shows it can do. In fact, you may begin to wonder if you need cable TV. Conventional content providers should be worried about the iPad since it provides yet another way for the user to determine viewing experience. But if you are still drawn to cable, it makes a fine remote control. Before
Justin Schmidt • Oct 16, 2012 at 2:51 pm
What will happen if a teacher leaves? Are these the school’s or do they belong to the teachers now?