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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not a fan of the IPad in class.  Our 3rd grade teacher uses a personal ipad as a "reward" for students.  The first student receives the "reward" for some good behavior and then is allowed to pass it around to his/her friends.  So really, it is a reward for the first child and then a reinforcement of social pecking order for the rest -- only the popular kids are in the chain of friends who pass the ipad around.  Unpopular kids just look on with envy as 4-5 kids get the ipad solely because they are friends with the first one.  This is very poor class room managment, IMO.

More worrisome to me than the iPad is the fact that our MCPS school's "computer" special, which is 1x a week for 45mins or so, has devolved to computer game time.  Kids are allowed to do games which practice math facts, but in fact spend far more time on other web-based computer games at Poptropica.com.  This "computer" special is really nothing but video game time.  IMO, they should at a minimum be spending time in "computer" special practicing keyboarding and learning how to use word, presentation, and other programs which they will use from 3rd up to do school work. In a best case scenario, kids would actually learn more "computer science" in this class, but I think that is beyond hope as there don't seem to be any qualified teachers.   [/quote]

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