Education Week (6/16, Quillen) reports on a number of programs at districts across the country in which officials are working to determine how best to use iPads and other tablet computers in the classroom. "Every day seems to offer another story about a district or school that's buying iPads-a development that astonishes some ed-tech experts since the device is less than 15 months old, and K-12 educators are traditionally slow adopters of new technology. And they've adopted it for classroom use despite the fact that Apple is still revising its product, with the second version of perhaps several issued in March, while many other manufacturers had only released their tablet competitors at the beginning of this year." Education Week describes ways in which tablet computers outperform laptops in a classroom setting, but concedes that a fair degree of "trial and error" could attend their implementation.
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