i am 4 and i drink starbucks - School district to give all it's kindergarteners iPads
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[QUOTE] School officials say they are the first public school district in the country to give every kindergartner an iPad. [/QUOTE]
Seems to me as if they bought all those iPads just so they could say that.
Could they not save half that money and get android tablets?
who know maybe in the future people will be bringing an ebook for school instead of regular textbooks
its already starting
[QUOTE=YouWithTheFace.;32349844]who know maybe in the future people will be bringing an ebook for school instead of regular textbooks
its already starting[/QUOTE]who know maybe in the future people will go to an eschool to learn instead of a regular school. Oh wait...
This isn't the way children should learn basic skills like reading, writing, and math. Somethings are better taught as they have been, pencil, paper, and books.
[QUOTE=Cows Rule;32349988]This isn't the way children should learn basic skills like reading, writing, and math. Somethings are better taught as they have been, pencil, paper, and books.[/QUOTE]
Uh, advances in technology are good. This IS how they should learn skills like reading/math. Maybe not writing but def. reading/math
Give the 5 year olds ipads before they can even read and stick teens with 9 year old systems that were junk when they were new. Seriously if they want to be "wasting" any money on tech it neds to go to highschools.
I don't have any personal grudge against them giving their students iPads, but I think there are better ways to use the money. For instance, $200,000 could easily pay for 4 or 5 extra teachers for the school so they could reduce class sizes, thus each student gets more time with the teacher.
Or do what my old highschool does; have technology carts that contain an entire classroom-set of computers (or iPads in this case) that the teachers can book for a day if they have a special lesson in mind. The technology lasts much longer this way and fewer pieces of hardware can serve the whole school.
My local jr. high gave iPads to every student there, exactly the same time when they cut the high school's german program, and made the spanish teacher both spanish and french.
I kind of really hope that the kids do badly or something happens where this is made into a terrible idea, because I don't want my school district to be a shining example of what people can do with wasting incredible amounts of money
This is what happens when schools get funding cuts because they don't spend their entire budget.
Tl;Dr, they are doing this because of the amount of funding left over from doing the No Child Left Behind minimum.
[QUOTE=GunFox;32344287]Seems to me like a huge variety of learning tools could be used via an ipad. They can learn shapes, letters, identify animals and things, and a massive variety of other simple tasks that kindegarteners learn all while the results can be reviewed by the teacher to see weaknesses in particular students.
I don't know why you are immediately writing it off.[/QUOTE]
Why not give them a real computer to do that. Here comes another generation of computer illiterates!
[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;32353441]Why not give them a real computer to do that. Here comes another generation of computer illiterates![/QUOTE]
they're fucking 4 most of them can't actually read or write.
Stupid? Maybe. But this sets a good precedent. We need current tech in our schools these days, and eventually the technology that's in iPads will be a lot cheaper than it is now, and every student will have an internet connected touchpad desk, which will be the norm. Just wait.
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A lot of science fiction tends to become reality eventually, and touchpad desks are in every futuristic movie from Starship Troopers to Serenity, and that technology is already freely available. It's just a matter of making that technology available to learning institutions for a cheap price.
[QUOTE=thisispain;32353503]they're fucking 4 most of them can't actually read or write.[/QUOTE]
And? I was using windows 3.1 at that age.
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;32344403]that has nothing to do with being luddites, that's just teachers not wanting kids sitting in their lessons texting. keep your phone well hidden. stop complaining.[/QUOTE]
Did you not read what he said? They take your property from you no matter how they see you, are capable of searching you for no reason, and make you pay to get back your own property. If you don't see a problem with that then god help you
[editline]18th September 2011[/editline]
since when are k graders 4, they're like 6
Some of the computers here still have Win98 on them, while IT department has already received Win7 from Microsoft.
The reason why we are still on Win98 is the administration, who doesn't let them install it ("oh god programs will break our students won't be able to learn, i know it better than the IT department!").
In other news, my school has bought an iPad for every teacher, they often complain how useless piece of shits they are.
What the fuck. Here is America, a country which almost defaulted this year buying shitloads of iPads, and then there is my school in Scotland, a school which this year couldn't even fucking buy highlighters and pens for the bloody teachers.
It's a conspiracy! Apple is trying to raise our children into the next generation of fanboys!
Just wait untill windows 8 tablets are available.
People will actualy have useful tablets.
iPads are useful and nice, and would provide a nice learning platform for shapes and time and basic shit, but you don't really need an [B]iPad[/B] for it, just buy an android tablet and get it locked so the students can't mess it up
also people saying they will break, iPads are pretty durable, I threw a pizza cutter in the air and it landed onto our family iPad on the table and it didn't even so much as scratch it V:v:V (We got the iPad free from my dads work, because they are developing apps for it)
I thought America had economic crisis but what do I know.
That's 4, maybe 5 teacher's salaries for the year. To give tech-toys to kids that will probably spend all day trying to jam them into their mouths.
This isn't necessary.
The teachers at my school all got iPads as well and honestly it's just not necessary, they would make more sense as merely gifts quite honestly. These are blind decisions made behind the ruse of "the future". Sheltered old people can get the fuck off every council so we can stop with stupid shit like this.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;32344144]I'm all for introducing kids to modern tech in a school environment, but this is pushing it.
And probably won't end well for the iPads.[/QUOTE]
Breaky breaky Mr. Paddy!
All they're going to do is draw pointless shit and smear jelly on them.
Why does my shit school system make me pay for extra printing paper due to lack of budget, then turn around and buy brand new MacBooks for all the freshmen.
It's not even that that made me so mad, but the fact that I wasn't allowed to use my own personal laptop in class anymore. Seriously, I was glad when I got to internally destroy that piece of shit on my last day. Said that 'it just crashed, and then this happened'. I regret nothing.
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It seems that every school is complaining of budget issues, but yet they don't buy anything but $2000 Macintosh computers.
Never used my family's iPad for anything other than porn and occasionally music.
[QUOTE=Cpl.Shepherd;32363289]Never used my family's iPad for anything other than porn and occasionally music.[/QUOTE]
Without a flash player, most of my sites would be rendered unviewable.
My high school bought ipads + otterbox cases for all the students, but kindergartners holy jesus that's a bit much
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