A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.
replace textbooks; allow students to correspond with teachers, file papers and homework assignments; and preserve a record of student work in digital portfolios.
takes away students’ excuses for not doing their work.
e traditional scope of homework: go home, read, write,” he said, referring to its video and multimedia elements. “I’m expecting a higher rate of homework completion.”
spending money on tablet computers may seem like an extravagance.
invest in them before their educational value has been proved by research.
, is advancing its effort to go paperless and cut spending. Some of the tablets are being used for special education students.
“IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off, and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.”
versatile tool with a multitude of applications, including thousands with educational uses.
laud the iPad’s physical attributes,
light weight
“There is very little evidence that kids learn more, faster or better by using these machines,”
simulate a piano keyboard on a screen or display constellations based on a viewer’s location