Report Cards Are In: So Did the iPad in the Classroom Make the Grade? | Hack Education - 1 views
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tablets — the hardware, the apps, the digital textbooks — will get more student-friendly in coming years
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the Penn State English department views this fall’s iPad experiment “a success,” and Selber says that department instructors are interested in more iPad implementations.
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Following the launch of the iPad last spring, many schools made headlines by announcing their plans to distribute the devices to teachers and students and to incorporate the iPad into coursework. Now that the fall term is over, several of those schools are reporting on what was, for many, the first full semester using iPads in the classroom. So does the iPad make the grade? If so, will it usher in a new wave of educational tablets as some analysts are predicting?