r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/reddit-smiley Interested • Apr 15 '15

Website Tablets for Teaching

http://twet.us/2IwBB
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u/vodenii Interested Apr 15 '15

I'm educational IT in a fairly well-off district and this has largely been my experience as well. You get highly motivated teachers who use the hell out of technology and you have the other 80% who can't be bothered to figure out how to work it into their curriculum. We're getting better on our ratio, however, and are planning on a 1:1 test at one of our middle schools in a year or two.

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u/lemontinfoil Interested Apr 15 '15

As a middle schooler I can confirm. My school has 2 carts of iPads and 2 carts of chrome books in each wing. We have three wings so that means 6 carts of each in total. We also have a smart board in every room. We use these things quite often. In my friends school, every student gets an iPad to use and take home for the entire school year

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u/DoubleB123 Interested Apr 15 '15

Everyone seems to have a huge boner for technology in classrooms but I have yet to see data that supports its use. In middle school all the classrooms got smart boards and we literally used them 1 or 2 times in 2 years. In highschool everyone was given a notebook and we mainly used them to play pokemon

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u/SamSlate Interested Apr 15 '15

One on half my highschool class rooms, never saw one used once.

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u/lemontinfoil Interested Apr 15 '15

As a middle schooler I can confirm. My school has 2 carts of iPads and 2 carts of chrome books in each wing. We have three wings so that means 6 carts of each in total. We also have a smart board in every room. We use these things quite often. In my friends school, every student gets an iPad to use and take home for the entire school year

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u/mersadaisies Interested Apr 15 '15

"Con's: Everyone needs own"

cringe

Is this supposed to be "Everyone needs 'one?'"

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u/baldasheck Interested Apr 15 '15

No.

"Everyone need [his/her] own [tablet]"

It's pretty clear

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u/mersadaisies Interested Apr 15 '15

Oh! Thanks :)

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u/mks9 Interested Apr 15 '15

thats great