Sunday, March 31, 2013
Watertown's Liam Walsh shares his experience at Boston College High School, where students are being required to have tablet computers.
Now, more than ever, schools are beginning to make the switch from paperback books to glass screens, yellow pencils to rubber styluses. As a student who is in the midst of this technological turmoil, I would like to shed light on this increasingly relevant topic. My high school, Boston College High School, just this year mandated that all sophomores and below were required to have an iPad for class. However, they condoned and even encouraged iPad usage, along with other tablets, for upperclassmen. And my school is not the only one. Even the Watertown school system has begun to make the switch, with the introduction of iPad carts and personalized emails sponsored by Google. But is this move an intelligent idea, or just an extraneous …
Monday, January 14, 2013
The iPads will be used in the elementary schools in a program to test how they can be used in the classroom.
The Watertown Education Foundation donated a set of iPads to be used in Watertown elementary schools. This was just one donations accepted by the School Committee last week. The iPads, worth $4,198, will be used in elementary school classrooms. Teachers must make a proposal to use the tablets, said Assistant Superintendent Darilyn Donovan. "Teachers with a real desire to incorporate (the iPads) into teaching will have the opportunity to use them," Donovan said. "Teachers put together a proposal for what they are looking for as outcomes and will collect data (to measure the outcome)." Other students in the Watertown Public Schools district already use iPads in class. At Watertown High School some teachers have been participating in a pilot…
Thursday, June 14, 2012
A set of iPads will be used in selected classes to see how they can best be utilized.
A few Watertown High School students will use the latest technology next year as the school does a pilot study of how to use Apple iPads in classes. The school has 30 of the tablets, said Head Master Steve Watson, and a handful of teachers will use them in their classrooms. "Instead of using them alike a laptop cart where students use them occasionally, we will see what we can do with iPads in students' hands on a daily basis," Watson said. Some possible uses, Watson said, is an app for foreign language classes that allows students to practice speaking and listening to the language. They could also be useful for students learning geography and history. Also, students who need to beef up their study skills can use the iPads to learn …
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