Learning with the iPad, Right or Wrong
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, 12-01-2011 at 06:54 AM (1885 Views)
At present, more and more students have iPad, or other mobile devices. The iPad growing popularity, and there are a lot of apps for iPad.
The new term begins. Yale university the first and second grade students in the college of medicine all get the iPad, it replaces the traditional paper-based information and materials. This is the second after Stanford University, which is a well-known medical use ipad as the main teaching tool.
Assistant Dean Mike Schwartz said, it saves a great deal of money for college in the long run. They spend $100000 for the new school year in printing each year.
Almost the same time, Harvard Medical School has announced an interesting message: they will no longer provide students with a paper version of the teaching materials, instead replaced with App before courseware. Student also can move files from ipad to pc. That’s convenient.
In some ways, iPad really is a good choice.
Well, the children iPad application market is growing rapidly. Many enterprise are betting on children's tablet computer market now. However, some industry experts worry that early technology products will be detrimental to child development, like the iPad. Many parents use iPad as a tool for early childhood, and they also buy lots of Apps. However, APP is only an auxiliary tool for teaching, it can notreplace the parents of the child's face to face counseling completely.
Yes, iPad has a large, butiful screen, and the easy interface. These attracted many users, I think I'm one of them. Children touch screen and the screen will move, that's funny. There are plenty of APP for iPad, like best ipad apps for kids. Children are more interested in fresh and interesting things, so it is with adults. Anyhow, parents should limit children's play time for iPad. iPad should not be used for one or two-year-old children. More, parents should cultivate children's learning independent; children can choose Apps for themselves.
However, iPad may bring bad effects on children's interpersonal aspects of language learning. In any case, traditional toys and games can not be replaced, such as building blocks, crafts, outdoor activities. Traditional products do not disqualify the producer from high-tech. On the other hand, high-tech industries cannot grow without support from traditional products. There are two sides to every question.