IPads in the Classroom

Throughout the course of this class, I have come to find the technology is vital to the flow of an everyday classroom. From a sheet of paper to a smartboard, all technology helps to create a new and exciting environment for students to learn. However, as new technology continues to enter the marketplace, teachers are forced to make decisions on what technology will best aid in helping their students. One of the most recent hot item that has been produced is the IPad. This tool, which has been very successful, is now starting to make its way into classrooms across the country. It has applications that can helps student in all subjects ranging from math to history and gives students a new and interactive way to work with material hands on. It also has been great in aiding the teacher. Teachers can now use this technology to get immediate results of assessments and assignments from their students and in return know how and what their students can improve on.  Therefore, this little piece of technology that aids in helping both student and teacher alike, I believe is a necessary addition for every classroom in America.  However, there is one major problem, which the education board has run into, and that is money. These little gadgets come with a great price on them and would require cuts in other departments in order to bring them into all classrooms. As teachers, we must ask is this technology is worth the cuts in other departments? And will the payoff be worth it in the end? My answer is yes. Technology will only continue to get more and more advance outside the classroom, and it is the school systems job to keep classrooms up to date. Students should know how this technology will affect their future and learn how quick and effective it can be not only in a classroom but also in outside environments.

However, I also know that this technology is not the same from classroom to classroom across the United States. This also presents a problem in the system. I believe that every student should have equal opportunity in every classroom across the nation, including the ways in which the student and teacher learn and give information. It has been proven that technology can help in both these areas and therefore should be present to some degree in every classroom.  If IPads cannot be available for every room, as teachers we should at least strive to make some type of advance technology available to every classroom ultimately giving every student equal opportunity no matter what district they were born into.

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