Students Freed From Demon Backpacks

Students will at long last no longer have to live with the threat of having shoulder and neck pain, back, strained muscles, headaches, poor posture, poor spinal alignment and nerve damage, through over weighted backpacks. The day has come at last when a school packpack will simply contain a tablet iPad computer.

In America alone, Apple officials say they know of over 600 districts that have launched the 'one-to-one' program, in which at least one classroom is to purchase iPads for every student.

Education commissioner and superintendant of schools in Woodford County, Kentucky said "Woodford County High will become the state's first public high school to give each of its 1,250 students an iPad".

"The iPads are a better long-term investment than textbooks," says Patrick Larkin principal of Burlington High School. Where possible the school will use electronic versions, though traditional texts will still have to be used in some courses.

"Textbooks are pretty much outdated the minute they're printed and certainly by the time they're delivered. The bottom line is that the iPads will give our kids a chance to use much more relevant materials." Textbooks cost around the same as the new iPads but do not include dictionaries, graphing calculators and other accessories that are available on iPads.

Many educators hold the belief that there are added benefits using iPads, such as the ability for students to interactively problem-solve maths. The tablets will also be handy for note taking and bookmarking, as well as being able to immediately send teachers their homework. The students will also be able to view videos, or tutorials, as well as learning foreign languages.

One school has estimated that instead of buying 300 textbooks for a freshman class, buying iPads will save them almost $4000.

Special education services teachers will find the iPads particularly useful for children with learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. Rather than listening to teachers talking they are able to learn quicker through visual images.

An education and informatics professor at the University of California-Irvine, Mark Warschauer, whose specialties include research on the intersection of technology and education, said "There's a saying that the music is not in the piano and, in the same way, the learning is not in the device. I don't want to oversell these things or present the idea that these devices are miraculous, but they have some benefits and that's why so many people outside of schools are using them so much".

Companies publishing textbooks, which account for $5.5 billion annual sales to secondary schools in the United States alone, are racing toward developing curricula specifically geared to iPads. The new era of digital learning is well and truly here to stay.

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