RSS Feed - Edutopia

As I was looking through the website, "Edutopia", throughout my feed, I came across an interesting article dealing with iPads. This caught my attention right away because the current district I teach at (Fraser), currently has a 1 to 1 ratio of iPads with all of their students at the middle and high school level. As I was reading through the article, the main idea of the article was dealing with technology and the specific changes the iPad will bring to schools. The main thing was that teachers need to understand that it is a big change and there is a lot that goes in to the iPad distribution. Teachers need to understand that the pacing will slow down within the lessons and they need to be able to embrace the change. Not everything is always going to go as planned with technology, so the time needed to adjust to this idea may be some time but in the end it will result in positive changes for all. Finally, with the distribution of the iPad it will provide teachers with a great deal of creativity within their lessons and provide many opportunities for teachers to collaborate more based on positives and negatives that may have happened throughout any given lesson. Although content may be different, there are a lot of similar things that can be done and shared with the use of the iPad that will be beneficial for all teachers.