I am a big fan of tablets, but not of the iPad for a couple of reasons – first of all, I am a PC user (always have been) and have not been part of the Apple family and so I find the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac family to be very foreign and I am not used to the format – I expect that if one was given to me, I would learn to use it and as i-fans have told me, I would never look back! \u00a0But I don’t need to relearn a new system when there are other alternative that I consider every bit as good.<\/p>\n
I am a Galaxy owner and I love it – but I am looking forward to the smaller size that is coming next summer – in fact, I nearly bought the Playbook \u00a0because of its size<\/p>\n
So back to iPads in the classroom – because we are a PC board, we have not been allowing the iPads to be purchased by our schools – however, we are about to become a Bring Your Own Device board – and we expect to see iPads appearing when students bring their own into the schools. \u00a0Our Ministry of Ed provides a huge number of videos online for teachers on many pedagogical topics – all Flash – so the iPad isn’t much help for teachers if they want to view these videos.<\/p>\n
Perhaps your emerging technology topic is not just about iPads, but about tablets in general? \u00a0If that is the case, I wholeheartedly support their use in schools! \u00a0But I resist the temptation to suggest that only one product would be best.<\/p>\n
Brenda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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