A school division in Winnipeg is becoming one of the first in Canada to issue iPads to every junior high school student, with educators saying the tablets are a great tool to help stoke interest in learning. But not everyone likes the idea, and worry the technology could distract and turn off the student brain.
As more and more schools roll out technology for learning, they will find issues they need to solve, sometimes something they never even thought of in the planning process.
It seems one of the big ones is how to allow students to maximise the potential of the technology without impacting on their learning by being distracted in class.
Putting in very tight restrictions will have a negative effect on those students required to fund their own technology, as they will want full access to their device at least when they are off campus.
Lets see how this plays out.
Read the full article here