Last week we had a panel of educators come in and speak with two of our education classes about technology in the classroom. First and foremost we had an educator come from Dakota Collegiate talk to us about technology in their school. They have completely bought in to the notion of having their own device in the classroom and he honestly believes that this is where education is headed. There was then a GREAT discussion on BYOD. The panel was able to give us great insight on how they do this. Some schools have their own IPADS for each classroom and created chargers specifically for their classrooms. The students are essentially responsible for their own IPAD. They are able to bring it home and work on it and download APPS onto it according to what we are learning in class. Questions were answered about damage deposits and I truly felt extremely informed with IPADS in the classroom and how exactly it all works. Do the students all have cases? Do some students only want to use their laptops? I honestly believe it is more handy to use an IPAD. Students can take video and it does work faster. Plus, I honestly believe because the student "owns" this device: hey learn responsibility and ownership. Basically, every presenter was extremely thorough and seemed to be very pro-technology and perhaps one day this is where it is going to go.
Food for thought: It would have been great to have more APPS and discussion on what kinds of things we can actually use the Ipads with in our classroom!
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