Catholic Schools Debut iPad Program As School Begins
Six schools in the Atlanta Archdiocese are embracing the touch-screen iPads as the newest classroom tool to recreate Civil War battles in social studies, reinforce math lessons with instructional videos or write a classroom blog to improve writing skills.All the eighth-grade students in the participating schools get their own iPad 2 as part of a pilot program to test a new educational application, Net Texts.
Students in Barbara Findley’s algebra class at Notre Dame Academy, Duluth, will have step-by-step videos of math problems with them at all times.
“It’s as if I could go home with them,” said Findley, a veteran teacher of 41 years.
Cedar Valley Catholic Schools in Waterloo, Iowa just started using IPad 2′s this year. Today (Aug. 18) was Day 2 of our school year. We have been doing technology professional development for the past 2 years and we rolled out over 550 IPad 2′s to our grade 6-12 students on Aug. 16. We are very excited to offer this exciting technology to our families.