iPads have arrived for the Year 7's

With the need for laptops for the Red Cedars (Year 7 have been sharing laptops for 4 years now with the other class in the Lilac Building), I researched how much time they were actually on these laptops weekly - it was only a few hours- sharing them, having to set up power; as the batteries would not hold a charge and their bulk contributed to it all being too hard. 

The experience we have always wanted for the students was to have technology at their fingertips - a real imput into their learning, not in a computer lab far away but in the class, available and usable. Hence the decision to buy iPads.

Yesterday 22 iPads were delivered - the excitment you can cut with a knife - as you know it was the Show Holiday- so I unpacked an iPad and experienced the joy, the ease and no doubt the challenges as this is not a laptop as such - but wait until you use the touch screen - WOW.  These hold a charge for 10 hours and they the size of an A4 piece of paper......

It will take some time until they are in the class- the students will be shown how to use them in a series of lessons.  With the iMacs in the class since the beginning of term - they are already becoming Apple literate.

Prabha