[From article]
The Los Angeles Unified School district is perhaps the best example of how some have totally bungled integrating new technology into the classroom. Officials there provided little guidance to teachers when they began an ambitious plan to give away iPads to the district’s 600,000 students.
The trouble started as soon as the first wave of iPads went out, with students circumventing the firewall to surf social media and play games, teachers unprepared to incorporate the technology, bandwidth issues, and numerous other complications.
The focus in L.A. seemed to be more on the “civil rights” of poor students to own an iPad than on actually using the devices to improve learning. The district has since pulled the plug on its contract with Apple and software provider Pearson, and are trying to get a refund, as federal investigators look into the $1.3 billion failure.
http://eagnews.org/some-students-spending-75-of-school-day-on-ipads/
Report: Some students spending 75% of school day on iPads
June 18, 2015
VICTOR SKINNER
Victor is a communications specialist for EAG and joined in 2009. Previously, he was a newspaper journalist.
