First, thanks to @fnoschese for finding this video.
An Algebra Class Uses the iPad from MindShift on Vimeo.
This isn’t using technology effectively. If someone thinks this is the school of the future, and the school I send my son to decides to do this? I’d quit my job so I can homeschool him myself.
Tim Pope says:
The iPad could be a gamechanger in education. It has a form factor that provides capacity and opportunity to create rich, mathematical experiences right in the classroom. With appropriately designrd content, students can explore, manipulate, and be assessed in meaningful ways. This video shows the iPad as nothing more than a glorified textbook. The IPad in the classroom market is still an infant. As it grows, the quality of the content on it, and the capacity of teachers to fully integrate it, will only grow.
February 1, 2011 — 2:33 am
David Wees says:
It is definitely the way this iPad is being used that I object to, not the fact that it is an iPad. There are some way better ways to use a mobile computer device than this. Yuch.
February 1, 2011 — 8:34 am