“All students in grades 3 through 9 in the affluent Mineola, N.Y., school district have been equipped with Apple’s iPad, in an aggressive and ambitious initiative that has converted some 75 percent of its students’ instructional days to the touchscreen tablet,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“The Mineola Union Free School District, located in the New York City suburb of Mineola, is in the fifth year of an initiative equipping its students with iPads for the bulk of classroom lessons,” Hughes reports. “The progress being made was detailed by Gail Robinson of The Hechinger Report, after she spent a day with 24 third-graders at Jackson Avenue School.”
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“By embracing iPads while keeping the traditional model of one teacher working with 20-some children, the small school district offers a vision of what the future of digital learning might be,” Gail Robinson reports for The Hechinger Report.
Follow a typical day in an iPad-centric third-grade classroom here.
MacDailyNews Take: Congrats to the lucky iPad-wielding students and teachers of the Mineola Union Free School District!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dan K.” and “Edward W.” for the heads up.]