When I read the title to this article, I thought it would have been about the iPad "experiment" failing. However, this article is more about the different choices available to schools than it is anti-iPad. There were some strategies I disagreed with in regards to the schools. For one, Los Angelas schools were giving the students a choice if they wanted an iPad or laptop. This makes it difficult for teachers. iPads and laptops are very incompatible. If there is a classroom full of students and they all have different devices, it would be impossible for a teacher to use those devices for anything but word processing. The same problem arises in the schools that are implementing 'Bring your own device'. If a school wants to join the world of interactive learning, they should be uniform in their device choices. Personally, if the choice was between a chromebook and an iPad for a classroom, I'd choose the chromebook. It is cheaper, and it is a lot more practical. However, if I was teacher younger children, I would go for the iPad. Word processing would not be as important in lower grades and the apps would be much more engaging and easier to use than anything on a chromebook.
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