Peter Smith, Middle School Head at St. Andrews School in Savannah, Georgia discusses his schools 1:1 iPad program.
St. Andrews School
Technology at St. Andrews
The school uses the iPads as textbooks, as an organizer, for individualized curriculum, apps, tech shares for teachers, emailing assignments to teachers with quick turn around, and creates lighter backpacks. iPads are owned by the schools with classroom sets in the classroom but middle school and up are allowed to take them out very similar to a library book. Still have laptop carts for things iPad can not do.
Some of the few things that Peter Smith has learned through this process are:
1 - The discovery model is very important - not sure where it will lead but we will find our way together.
2 - There is a challenge with the distribution to students
3 - Teacher professional development. There are benefits to giving iPads to teachers to take home and explore and find problems to share with one another.
I am curious as to whether Apple gives schools a discount for this technology?
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