Blog #5

The article that I read was 4 Ways the iPad is Being Used for Education which was similar to mine about using iPod Touches in the classroom. This article talked about the many ways teachers and students are trying to incorporate the iPad whether it be donating to Teach for America, online textbooks, apps to help with student organization, and helping teachers organize in the classroom. Making a good point, they say in order for the iPad to be useful the operators, either students or teachers, must have knowledge on the product and make it worthwhile or they have wasted a lot of money.

My thoughts on this article was that it was good insight because it sort of  gave the negative and positive. I liked how it gave the reasons for the iPads and then went over why it can be a negative if not used correctly. I agree completely with the article because even though curriculum states that we need to integrate technology into the classroom, we have to make sure students are knowledgable about the material and not finding easy ways to get out of learning. We must make sure that the teacher and students are knowledgable about the technology as well because it could make learning more confusing and complicated when in reality technology is suppose to make learning understandable and fun.