We already have laptops. Do we need iPads too?
When the 210 members of 5/6 Learning community moved into our $3 million gift from the BER government program last year, we walked into a facility with a dedicated computer lab with 30 desktop...
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We are picking up my daughter’s iPad tomorrow. Her secondary school has decided to go 1:1 with iPads. Big, big investment. And decision. Lucky enough to have been sitting on the big wad of funding from...
View ArticleCan you share iPads – the case for Yes.
PART TWO – the case FOR Sharing In my last post, I sort of positioned myself in the “iPads can’t be shared” camp. When the boss first asked me about the possibility of getting iPads into our school,...
View ArticlePlanning for a new year in ICT – Can growth and change happen?
"It's about the teaching, not the technology" link http://bitstrips.com/r/2004P I love this comic. It sums up so succinctly the general state of technology in schools today. Over my 25 year teaching...
View ArticleMy iPad – the “nearly a PC” for teaching
Clearly from reading my blog, you can work out I love my iPad. Hopefully, you can also tell from reading my blog that I am also not a slavish “Apple Fanboy” who never finds fault with the product....
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