“At Cedars School of Excellence, in Greenock, all the lessons are now taken using iPads,” McFadyen reports. “The pupils, aged from five to 15, will even do their homework on their new Apple handhelds. And the days of blackboards and chalk are gone too, as teachers use projectors and online lesson plans.”
“The move is the brainchild of IT teacher Fraser Speirs,” McFadyen reports. “Last year, the 105 kids at the school were forced to share 12 laptops between them. Now they’ve each been given an iPad to work on lessons… Fraser said: ‘We wanted to give each of the pupils an opportunity to use the best equipment available… Before we had the solution, the children were only able to get around 45 minutes a week on computing studies as they were sharing the existing laptops. But now they’ll be some of the most technologically advanced in the world.'”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “snapperjohn” for the heads up.]
