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I agree with you 100%. Wife’s school every kid has laptop, Ipad and cellphone that does internet. We collect all computers Monday to Friday, only allowed in class when teacher requests for specific tasks, same with cell phones. Students can have on weekends but must hand in every night at 10:30. Otherwise they stay up all night playing games.

They all complain like hell for 2 weeks until withdrawl symptoms are over. They are allowed translation machines and MP3s for listening. Works FAR better.

The tech industry wants education as a captive market, Common Core designed by Gates and Pearson which will be dependent on computer driven standardized tests. No more bubble cards just check boxes. Same thing.

I agree with everything you’ve said, ‘pobod’   What you’re doing at your wife’s school is sensible.  If schools had these same rules, I wouldn’t mind children taking their electronic toys to school.

In the first place the 21st century technology are not toys, but tools. In the second place, what the LA school district is trying to do, is to change the i-pad to something that it is not - a textbook. In the third place, three members of the school board own Apple shares. In the fourth place, the only software on the i-pad is Pearson’s textbooks. In the fifth place - the cost of the i-pad goes up concerning schools because of the insistence of security concerns, like putting on locks so the kids can’t go on the internet

Its why the i-pads in the Nova Scotia pilot program cost close to $1000 as the LA ones cost $800. As for the locks - the kids hacking into them and that if one calls it hacking - the kids override the locks. More then likely the 300 high school students as reported simply did a runaround the locks. Very easy to do, when YouTube will show you the steps.

There is also the legal ramifications to be consider- the i-pads are now their textbooks. When the i-pads are taken away from the students, the schools are effectively taking away their textbooks. But the head of the LA school board is determined to deliver an i-pad to well over 600,000 students. even though it was not well thought out by the board, nor does the school board have the infrastructure and staff to keep track of the i-pads.

As for Doug’s remarks - its a private school and I am quite sure the rich Chinese students have their own personal laptops and digital gadgets…....... However, it can’t be done in a public school, of any size. Many legal and liability issues to considered. Its like be handed a textbook but one is not allow to open up the textbook.

Public school dollars -  a billion dollars - to turned i-pads into a textbook???  Common for a student to lose one textbook, but when the i-pad is lost or stolen, the student loses all his textbooks. I sure would like to see the breakdown in numbers and dollars…....apparently, teaching training cost a sweet penny for i-pads. Meanwhile, within a few hours, the students had already figure out how to bypass the locks…....perhaps the teachers should be taking a tech course on computers in teacher colleges. They many learn the novel ways to hook in on the internet…......and other little tricks that may help their students.

Does i-pads enhance learning? It depends how it is being used by the user. The same thing could be said about the typewriter…......or the projector. But if the device fundamentally changes to something that it is not, in the same way as the LA school board has done - changing the i-pad into a textbook - unintended results in learning and more so when the school board decides locks must be put on. The users will respond, just like students whose parents brought typewriters as a gift for their kids - the typewriters turned into a over-sized paper weights.

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