A crutch? iPads have given me the opportunity to create amazing research projects. The net books that the freshmen have are crap. They rarely work. The iPads are consistent and there are rarely network issues. On the iPads we have textbooks at a fraction of the cost. Any unknown words can automatically be defined. I can create assessments that require responses based on observations found on any Internet site. Right now my gov class is learning about democracy. I “gave them” a country recently liberated from a dictator via civil war. There are many defined issues but as citizens of other democracies, they must research, analyze, and describe why the particular style of democracy they chose is best. This is extremely simplified due to time, but I wouldn’t be able to do this without tech in the classroom. My personal issue has always been this: If the tax payers are on the line for something, I’m going to use the hell out of it. The taxpayer is the most important link in the chain. Baby crying, short on time!
if the taxpayer is the most important link, abolish government schools