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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both my kids go to different highly regarded progressive privates and both use school iPads regularly.

In the case of the 6th grader, iPads are just how most of the work gets done and organized. And it is how the kids collaborate.  They move seamlessly from iPads at school to computers at home and back.  Objecting seems like objecting to pencils.

In the case of the kindergartener at another school, I think they use the camera a lot to document observations of nature, etc.  Plus some creative story creating apps, etc.  I would mind this more if I thought they used the iPads a lot or if I didn't trust the school to know what they were doing.

I am 100% sure they don't use iPads for the purpose of wanting to teach kids how to use iPads.  iPads are easier to use than pencils.[/quote]

And once again, the research is clear that children learn better, retain more information via actual *writing* than typing. It's great that children can create professional-looking power-point presentations with movies imbedded in them for science class. But how much actual science is being learned, understood, and remembered?[/quote]

I don't think the reports are all that professional looking at all. But they do include a lot of mixed media elements from different sources, including drawings, homemade videos, bits and pieces of information from all over. I'm not sure if they are learning more or less but it is just the way the world works now.[/quote]

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