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Subject: Bookless school where everyone has Ipads
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A school in Bolton is pushing the boundaries of education by putting away pens and paper and giving all pupils and teachers their own iPad.

The Essa Academy says it helps students and has cut costs, including reducing the school's £80,000 photocopying bill to just £15,000 a year.


It's nice to see technology transforming schools and would really help keep the class entertained while learning. The use of technology can allow for much more than pen and paper and text books can provide.

Would you like something similar in your school or for those out of school do you wish you had it like this?

  • 01.07.2013 6:58 AM PDT
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I actually like to have to book on hand, but that's just me.

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Good, feed the Apple machine.

Even as a staunch Apple supporter, I have to wonder if it really makes sense to buy iPads when there are cheaper alternatives.

School kids don't need things like high resolution retina displays and other iPad features that push the price tag higher.

  • 01.07.2013 7:00 AM PDT

The iPad doesn't respect my freedom.

  • 01.07.2013 7:01 AM PDT

That school is gonna be so surprised when everyone starts procrastinating on those things.

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My college is doing this now but the students have to buy the IPads. Another problem is that students won't just use it for school but they will using it for everything else, plus they might break it.

  • 01.07.2013 7:02 AM PDT

I don't like this. My school is pushing for laptops to replace textbooks, but we don't have the money. our textbook cycle is five years, but we are stuck using books from 2002.

Then comes the fact that kids will just play games on the technology. We had laptops in our AP classes last year and a quarter of the class played games.

If it could be executed well, then in the longterm is saves money and can provide a quicker and better education. If one finds a lack of information in the material, then the class can look up a better explanation and have a discussion faster than with a textbook.

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Good, feed the Apple machine.

Even as a staunch Apple supporter, I have to wonder if it really makes sense to buy iPads when there are cheaper alternatives.

School kids don't need things like high resolution retina displays and other iPad features that push the price tag higher.


So much this.

I can only imagine it's just a general refusal to believe that there are alternatives to Ipad's.

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Possible distraction shouldn't be a deterrent from taking advantage of technology.

Instill some discipline in students. Find teachers with engaging lessons and with the capability to monitor what students are doing.

  • 01.07.2013 7:05 AM PDT

Let's all just be happy! Doesn't that sound like fun?

Yay!

I think it'd be nice if used this for reading and everything, it's a very effective system. However, keep using pen and paper to write with. Also, negligent students will trash the iPads eventually, which will bring a huge increase to cost. It has it's ups and downs.

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Since, at my school they wanted to get new computers instead because we had really old computers but then they thought it would be cheaper to give classes iPads. Though I can't imagine where it's a bookless school and everyone has iPads. That would be quite expensive.

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*teacher displays student's iPad on projector*

Teacher: "BILLY YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING AT PR0NZ DURING SCHOOL."

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Posted by: A Good Troll
Good, feed the Apple machine.

Even as a staunch Apple supporter, I have to wonder if it really makes sense to buy iPads when there are cheaper alternatives.

School kids don't need things like high resolution retina displays and other iPad features that push the price tag higher.


So much this.

I can only imagine it's just a general refusal to believe that there are alternatives to Ipad's.
Not true. Apple/iTunes offers a massive set of educational apps and programmes. It's a lot better than anything Droid has to offer.

  • 01.07.2013 7:06 AM PDT

It's not a bad idea, really. If I was still in school, I'd miss having paper copies of books though.

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Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

I don't know which is cheaper to maintain, pencils and paper or a lot of iPads, but buying everyone an iPad just sounds unsettling, like if some of them will end up broken or stolen.

  • 01.07.2013 7:18 AM PDT

Paper should be banned, IMO.

It's 2013. We're not cavemen. We don't need to keep scribbling on dead trees.

I went to one of the wealthiest school systems in the country. It's shocking how even that system used things like overhead projectors and other ancient relics to try to teach us how to operate effectively in the modern world.

  • 01.07.2013 7:18 AM PDT

This has happened in my school. But only the sixth formers got them and I am a sixth former. Also all of the teachers have been given one recently. This is probably down to the fact that our school recently has been given Academy status.

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I don't know which is cheaper to maintain, pencils and paper or a lot of iPads, but buying everyone an iPad just sounds unsettling, like if some of them will end up broken or stolen.

I'll agree that you probably need to have Apple (or whatever tablet maker you decide) to have these designed differently than regular iPads so that they don't have as much "street" value if stolen.

While on paper a student with five schoolbooks in his bag cost the school the same amount of money as an iPad, people don't get mugged for their books. You'd get mugged for an iPad.

  • 01.07.2013 7:25 AM PDT
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I think books are better. Not only do you learn you also learn to write. Let's not forget exams like gcse require you to write. No matter what. Even if you broke your arm you have to get someone to write for you.

This idea has more downs than ups.

  • 01.07.2013 7:25 AM PDT

My friend said his younger brother goes to the same high school we used to go to and apparently the school has iPads for certain classes now.

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We were told we would have that this year instead they gave kids 4-12 grade iPads and the only text book on the iPad is Algebra 2. Every student plays games and screws around because they don't block games.

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We're not cavemen! We have technology!

  • 01.07.2013 7:26 AM PDT

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Our school system gives the elementary school iPads to take home. The high schoolers have iPads but there are not enough for every student and they must remain at school.

I guess they are afraid we will sell them for drugs or something.

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