The IT director's prophecy is self-fulfilling. If you don't put some effort and funding into application selection, you're going to have teachers using the iPa

The IT director's prophecy is self-fulfilling. If you don't put some effort and funding into application selection, you're going to have teachers using the iPads and ChromeBooks to teach kids lessons from free & crappy web sites that have no idea how to present lessons in a clear, concise manner with correct spelling and grammar. If the person responsible for a particular technology isn't going to spend time supporting colleagues using that technology, they're basically abandoning the technology. There are a multitude of language training resources on the App Store alone. I'm sure that someone in the US education system has done a review of various course material available through the App Store and Apple University (plus all the online courses) and determined which ones are best in particular brackets of student age, course price, etc. That a teacher was resorting to crappy web sites rather than the best available resources indicates that there were problems outside the technology environment: I'm thinking either management support or financial.