iPad Personalization

When I started personalizing my iPad I didn't realize I would get so sucked into it-- next thing I knew I was using it for, well, too much time. Once you download an app you can't just leave it there, you need to try it, and once you start doing that for a substantial amount of apps, the time flies by. I certainly have been getting distracted with it, although, it is also useful for me as an educational device. My last blog post was typed up and posted with the iPad, and I have used it to teach myself a song on the Ukulele (and I have never played one before).

Many of the things that I have learned from my iPad have actually come in class when some of my classmates show me something cool or mention something and I ask more about it. I have an iPod Touch 5th generation, and although it is significantly smaller, they both basically work the same way. There are some minor differences that you can see between the both of them. Just today, in fact, I learned from a classmate that you can lock the screen to either landscape or portrait. 

I think that if iPads were to be in schools they should not be available for every kid, but simply available to check out from the library. Because most schools already have laptops for every student, I don't think it is necessary to add these in addition, or to substitute them in. The fact that they have apps is just one more thing that can distract a kid from his/her education while in school; the laptops are bad enough as it is because of the things they can do on them. I do not question the fact that they can be very educational; however, in my opinion there is no need for every student to have them.