By: Aseem Gaurav, April 10, 2011 (New Delhi)
What could be a better way for a school to impart education to their students by giving them the Apple’s next generation computer tablet, the iPad 2. The Auburn School Department in Maine (US) has agreed to start a pilot program in May which will offer 285 kindergartners and teachers with iPad 2s, for free. The school would be paying around $200,000 for this purchase.
Teachers in the school are of the view that the ipads would engage the students and make learning more fun for them. The school administration says the iPad is more portable and less expensive than laptop computers.
The idea for school kids to use iPads for education gained steam when teachers who owned iPads noticed some significant improvement in kindergartners who were exposed to iPad educational software.
Without doubt for toddlers it is easy to learn so many different things by simply touching things on the screen that they just dive in without needing to be shown how it all works.
