The iPad 2 tablet, the best-selling tablet of the moment, is slowly making its way into the American education system. A school in Florida, USA, made the decision to offer the students an iPad 2 tablet instead of the classic school textbooks, with the idea of annually saving part of the money spent on the purchase of supplies. The school purchased 1.750 iPad 2 tablets for approximately $700.000 and in the fall all school students will receive a tablet on which they will have all the school textbooks. The teachers of that school were forced to reorganize their subject so that it could be delivered through books directly on the iPad 2 tablet, but together with the standard textbooks, educational applications already available in the App Store are also used.
Students learn differently now because of the technology. Students are used to having multiple sources and being able to have more social collaboration in their learning process rather than just doing it sitting quietly and reading. They are great ways for us to learn about this transition so that by (school year 2015-2016) all of us will be better prepared. Because of this pilot district we'll be able to collect that information in a more organized fashion.
The interesting part is that in the American education system, many schools use iPad tablets instead of textbooks and so far the pilot programs involving iPad tablets have been successful. Of course, Apple has a lot of publicity in this context and maybe the iPad 2 is not the ideal tablet for learning, but soon we may see more and more gadgets used in schools to help students learn Easier.
