Consumption or creation: iPads in the classroom

John Larkin offers a valuable critique of the iPad - identifying the joys and the challenges when it is used in teaching and learning. Is it a device for consumption or creation? It seems collecting evidence of student work and projects is difficult.

Yet, the iPad has a dark side. Particularly for a teacher working with a class of students, each with their own iPad. Consider a teacher that simply wants to facilitate teaching and learning and does not wish to devote hours to dealing with an interface that can at times be clunky, inconsistent and simply involves too many steps to get it to work. Which interface!? The conventional task of collecting, assessing and returning student works that were created on an iPad.

Read the full blog post here.

Dark Side of the iPad ~ Collecting student projects is difficult! | John Larkin via kwout