The Pros And Cons Of Using Ipads In Schools

In the past five or six years iPads have become a big part of educating America’s youth and have been used in many schools. Archbishop Riordan High School implemented an iPad program in 2013 that provided textbooks and other in class materials to students on the device. iPad’s while nice to use as educational tools, have some disadvantages. iPads have many distractions available on them, there is no real way for teachers to monitor what teachers are doing on them, and they make it harder for students to socialize. Despite all these cons there are a few pros to using iPads in schools. Physically iPads are lighter to carry and buying an ebook is a lot less expensive than buying a regular textbook. First off there are tons of distractions on iPads from social media to games to even watching television or youtube videos on it during class time. In 2015 the app store had 396,094 gaming apps all of which are available on the iPad. Thats 396,094 possible distractions for students who have iPads in schools.In a survey done in Quebec a third of students admitted to playing games on there iPads iBooks have a search feature which makes it much easier to find information in a textbook as opposed to skimming through a textbook. In addition to that iPads have many note taking apps including Pages, Notability, and Notes. These note taking options offer a lot of advantages especially to students with learning disabilities like dysgraphia which is an inability to write coherently. This helps these students a lot because it makes it easier for them to take notes in their classes. Another advantage of these apps is that you will never lose these notes unless you delete them. If you take notes in a notebook theres always a possibility of misplacing them and not having the information you took down on that day but with pages or notability you will always be able to find them on the