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ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools.
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Roslyn High School on Long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms. Michelle Mahepath teaches her students with the device.
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.
As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School on Long Island handed out 47 iPads on Dec. 20 to the students and teachers in two humanities classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students.
The iPads cost $750 apiece, and they are to be used in class and at home during the school year to replace textbooks, allow students to correspond with teachers and turn in papers and homework assignments, and preserve a record of student work in digital portfolios.
“It allows us to extend the classroom beyond these four walls,” said Larry Reiff, an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course materials online. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/education/05tablets.html?nl=nyregion&emc=ura1
***Plainview teachers would actually have to embrace the idea of communicating with students outside the parameters of the classroom, and using email. Forget whether our budget could withstand the costs..
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Unfortunately that would not work in our district because the teachers would want another big raise to go along with the Ipads.
ReplyDeleteAs a regular, recreational Ipad user, I do NOT recommend giving Ipads to students- the handwriting recognition software is not where it should be, making note-taking a chore, especially if you're writing quickly. I think giving digital tablets to students will probably happen eventually, but I think doing it this generation is premature, and potentially harmful to students: Making them take notes on something LESS receptive to note-taking than pencil and paper is utalizing retarded technology.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but think that those who are recommending Ipads to students have not spent hours actually using them; they're great for certain things, but still have limitations.
I see nothing has changed in the new year. teacher bashing is back. Financially speaking, the cost of supplying all 5097 plainview students with Ipads would cost almost $4 million dollars. are you willing to foot that bill?
ReplyDeleteSo, do you think there is such an abundance of teacher bashing because parents get off on it? Or, is it possible that some parents just feel that they aren't getting the bang for the $7-10,000 portion of their taxes that goes for the schools.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really sure what the link from IPads to teacher salaries was/is, other than a petulant reply.
However, I find it easy to understand the level of frustration that many in the community feel, especially with another potential raise due to the teachers.
Somebody in Roslyn should have read Nicholas Carr's "What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains."
ReplyDeleteI suspect that's what that district did with its federal stimulus money. What a cosmic waste. Anyone want to guess how long it will be before most of them are broken or stolen?
We can not afford the Ipads in our schools due to the huge labor salaries that we have to pay out every year.I am sure any school with half a brain would require parents of children getting the ipads to either pay for insurance or be responsible for the ipads if they are damaged or stolen.
ReplyDeleteMoney aside, the ipad is good as a replacement to textbooks. As far as sending papers in via email, turning in homework, keeping work in a portfolio, all this can still be done on a netbook. I do however think ipads (or tablets) will eventually solve the problem of having to carry around heavy textbooks. But dont feel like my kids are getting any less of an education cause they dont have one from their school.
ReplyDeleteWhile educational funding is important as are quality teachers, in the end its up to the student (and parent) to do well.
I went to a terrible school district growing up. Didnt make me less succesful, in fact I was probably more succesful cause I worked hard and had motivation to get out of the district!
Morty's response is shameful. "Why invest in technology when it will become obsolete, damaged or requires insurance"? Here's the answer...because its for our children. Computers are not the future. They are the present. Under his logic, "why invest in teacher salaries today, the students forget half of what they learn tomorrow"?
ReplyDeleteYou know, there's an old expression...I hear- I forget, I see - I remember, I do - I understand. Nothing beats hands-on learning.
Isn't it pathetic that budgets become a concern to Morty when it involves spending on the children. But its never an issue for faculty pension contributions, health insurance, or benefits. Ironically, he then posits forth that the payroll benefits he lobbies for are "for the children".
Morty, you should think twice before your spout budget constraints to district spending. I don't trust anyone who speaks hot and cold in the same breath.