Ipads in schools

[Omeletpants]

In my day a pad of paper was 5 cents and a pencil was 2 cents. That's all ya need, bitches.

 

[botfly10]

Still not sure if you're trolling



At my school half the students have iPads and I just don't see anything positive. No one uses them for learning in class, they all play on games and the iPad classes do much worse on there tests and such from what I've gathered. Kids have to take notes in iPads for English, math, etc and note taking is slower for math when you have to write on an iPad. Kids get behind because they can't write as fast as the teacher and then they get lost. My school has also had many issues with programs not working or randomly crashing while a test is going on. Very few kids use then properly and they make things more complicated for the students here so I think that right now iPads is not a good idea. Teachers and students need to be better prepared to use then and they need to figure out what apps work best for learning, while finding a way to block games or certain apps, at least during school. Once that stuff is worked out, then iPads could be useful, but I don't think we're ready yet.

You're saying kids aren't allowed to take notes with pen and paper? You sure? Cause that seems insane. Also seems insane they aren't able to block games.

 

[botfly10]

Hahaha. I wish.

Maybe its me as a current teacher-student, but the kids are probably goofing off because they aren't challenged enough.

Not challenged, but engaged.

90% of all behavior problems in school are because the teacher/lessons are not engaging...

To put it another way... fucking boring.

 

[botfly10]

Possibly, but you wouldn't know that from their grades :smh: the problem is they don't care enough to apply themselves in the first place, so now they have an iPad it's just makes them worse and provides another distraction

This level of generalization makes it seem like you don't know what you're talking about.