Apple - Education - iPads

http://www.apple.com/education/ipad/

This website is a great resource as a pro to incorporating iPads in the classroom. After reading through this resource, there were many benefits to having iPads in classroom that extended further than the fact that they are technologically advanced, which will help stimulate twenty-first century students. It was interesting to learn about the benefits that iBooks Textbooks would have in helping students to fully emerge in their course studies. For example, iBooks Textbooks are "dynamic, current, engrossing, and truly interactive," meaning students have the ability to learn by doing, rather then simply reading a textbook. This resource explained how pricey textbooks can be, and because their price, school districts must reuse them year after year. This does not do justice to students because textbooks are constantly changing; with the use of the iPad, student will always be reading the most updated version of the textbook.

This resource showed how iPads can be beneficial through their description and examples of the use of educational apps. There are apps for multiple subject areas, which vary in grade level. The educational apps are beneficial because they are interactive while teaching. Most importantly, the use of education apps on the iPad will help to stimulate students while learning, which will reach students at a different level than paper pencil instruction.

As a future educator, it would be great to have the ability to use iPads in the classroom. Through the use of this source, I found multiple ways that students will be stimulated, while learning. It would be great to provide students will a level of instruction, using technology like the Smart Board, and then have students complete their work via the iPad. This would change my role from strictly being the teacher, to ultimately being the facilitator.