What an amazing experience--the kids are so comfortable with the ipads already! It amazes me how different kids are from adults...they have so much more experience in technology and far less fear! It is funny to me that they still want everything spoon fed to them though, but if prompted to explore and figure it out for themselves they will with much less frustration than adults. (This spoon feeding seems to be a direct result of our traditional teaching methods used for many decades--is this slowly beginnign to change? :)
Already I have found that the students are teaching us rather than us teaching them! They are quick to discover alternative ways to accomplish tasks and in many ways, much simplier methods--which any adult would like. For example, I don't have to double click the square button when holding down the on/off button to take a screen shot--I just have to hold it once (it being the square button). Nice to know.
As for syncing...it isn't that hard just time consuming since we will have to manually touch each pad in order to turn off some restrictions prior to syncing and then turn them back on afterwards so students can't purchase apps. This isn't what we had hoped...but it just means teachers will not want to sync very often due to time constraints. At this point once a month is looking doable--knowing that it will take additional time from either your own time before or after school and/or your prep period. Unless you can hire a tech guy/gal to do this...and what school has this lately with the economy the way it is? I can see this as a problem for all schools as they try to implement more technology nationwide.
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