Apple’s iPad is rapidly finding its way into education systems all over the world. Schools in countries as diverse as South Korea, the Netherlands, Thailand, the UK and the US are using the best-selling tablet to supplement, and in some cases even entirely replace, traditional teaching methods. In South Korea, printed textbooks are no longer used at all. In the Netherlands, a chain of private schools is soon to open that doesn’t have any traditional teaching methods at all: pupils will instead use iPads to learn at their own pace. iPads also have considerable advantages for developing countries: there is a large number of freely available apps for them, and the units are competitively priced and portable.
An interesting take on the iPad as a consumption only device. I do agree that the example sited in this article of a student needing to learn programming is not possible on an iPad. I would say a student still needs an iPad for all the learning material and as a second screen device for reference, or even as the device to test the program on.
Also the iPad can be used to do assessments and exams, stepping out of the consumption only roll.
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