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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i don't understand why some of you want this to fail so badly? just so you could say "i told you so" and feel great about yourself?[/quote]

I don't "want this to fail." I see a half-baked, overpriced load of technology coming down the pike, and I want someone to stop it so there is time for interested parties to engage on finding a good way of doing this.

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At least in the case of the 6th grade iPads, they piloted this last year in one class in every APS middle school.  The results were obviously - from their perspective - good enough to justify giving every 6th grader an iPad.  As the parent of one such 6th grader this year in an APS middle school, I think that this can be very useful - especially for kids whose families cannot afford such technology themselves.  A lot of content supposedly is going to be pushed to the iPads for the kids to work on at home (WiFi won't be necessary).  It also supposedly will help with differentiation.  I was surprised myself to hear that this was moving forward but I'm really not upset -- it won't be perfect (we've heard rollout at our son's middle school may take a bit longer than planned) but kids today use technology and this has the potential to be helpful to student learning.  The level of vitriol from some people over this seems a bit much.[/quote]

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