Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad 396
PolygamousRanchKid writes "Students and teachers in grade school through higher education are using the iPad to augment their lessons or to replace textbooks. Jennifer Kohn's third grade class at Millstone Elementary School in Millstone, New Jersey, mastered the iPad with minimal training. For the most part, the students didn't need to be taught how to use their apps, Kohn says. College students are also turning to the iPad to do what they do instinctively well: saving themselves money. Marianne Petit, a New York University staff member, recently began taking credits in pursuit of another certification, and uses her iPad in place of textbooks. 'The price of the iPad pays for itself after a single semester,' Petit said. 'iPad books cost so much less it's a legal alternative for students who are using BitTorent [to pirate books].' Like the PC before it, Kohn noted that the iPad isn't a panacea for educators: It has its appropriate time and place. 'I don't use them with every lesson or even day. It's not always appropriate to lesson or objective of what I'm trying to teach,' Kohn noted."
Re:Uh... (Score:5, Funny)
the 3rd graders mastered the ipad? (Score:5, Funny)
"Jennifer Kohn's third grade class at Millstone Elementary School in Millstone, New Jersey, mastered the iPad with minimal training."
Mastered meaning they learned objective-c and xcode and now have multiple million unit selling apps?
Re:Uh... (Score:5, Funny)
The sad thing is, I don't even know if you're joking.
Re:Uh... (Score:3, Funny)
Dont want them kids saying the virus ate their homework!
Re:iPad books cost less? (Score:5, Funny)
so instead of using a small tablet I find that a (comparatively cheap) 24" vertically mounted monitor is the best experience
Me too! Its far superior to iPads, and all other tablets, on airplanes, subways, busses, in coffee shops and in the classroom!!