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My HS rolled out iPads to all students my Sophmore year of HS 4 years ago. It was well known the average GPA dropped by a sizable amount (mine personally by ne
by lowpro 10y ago
My HS rolled out iPads to all students my Sophmore year of HS 4 years ago.
It was well known the average GPA dropped by a sizable amount (mine personally by nearly .5). There wasn't a good way for the school to lock down games, and it was really hard to self regulate. The technology side of Canvas worked pretty well once teachers knew how to use it, but the fact that so many games could be played just distracted the hell out of everyone, and the teachers knew this. Without a way to lock down device gaming, I don't think they're a good idea in a school environment unless you antipate and actively try to curb gaming, but this can be hard and will make the teacher seem like the bad guy, which is never a good thing.
- sperglord 10y agoThere are many iPad MDM solutions to that problem. Apple s App Store can be disabled and replaced with a custom one, for example.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoDoesn't matter if its technically possible if teachers and administrators are clueless on how to do it.
- sperglord 10y agoThe teachers and admins should not be the people administering equipment...
- pawadu 10y ago> It was well known the average GPA dropped by a sizable amount Are there and studies on this? The subject must be a gold mine for edu researchers...
- nommm-nommm 10y agoSnood. When I was in high school Snood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snood_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snood_(video_game)) was all the rage. Kids installed Snood on all the (Windows 98) lab computers and played through class. When the teacher came around kids would just minimize it. Then Yahoo! Games was added as classroom activity among students. Between days people would download songs on Kazaa in the background. Teachers were totally clueless as to how to prevent this. Teachers just winged it teaching as they went along, admitting openly to the students they didn't really know anything about what they were teaching. Our "lessons" were mostly randomly playing around with various applications without any goal or direction. Including "making a website." "Making a website" consisted of opening up Microsoft FrontPage to drag and drop a bunch of stuff onto the canvas. That's it. Never hosting it anywhere, just a FrontPage file. We were required to add certain items, such as at least one textbox and one button but they never did anything at all. Everyone in the school district, teachers, administrators, was entirely unable to deal with computers in any sort of manner other than "pay someone to set them up and place a random teacher to sit in the lab with the kids." But they got to check off "has computer lab." What a waste. Teachers and administrators need to have some sort of plan before introducing new tech.