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There have been lots of interesting stories in the news recently about various iPad deployments in education, some good, some bad. Earlier this year our school made a carefully considered decision to deploy iPads to each student on a one to one basis and we are currently in the second phase of our roll out. This article will explore why we chose iPad.
When we were first considering this decision around three years ago, the iPad was in it’s infancy, with a few schools like Cedars in Scotland, leading the way with iPad deployment. At the time, the discussion was not iPad, but how do we get an educationally sound and practical computing device into the hands of our learners? We started off on a trial basis with three sets of iPads which could be booked out on an individual, per lesson basis. It’s fair to say that this, although not a failure, wasn’t exactly successful….
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