Technology in Your School

How does your school use technology?  

Do you use iPads? 

How do you plan for the future?

If your school is one that is starting to integrate iPads into the classroom, you have seen how valuable a tool it is. When Apple announced the new iPad Air, it started me thinking. The iPad has been around for three years.  Three years isn't a very long time. Think about how it has been entangled into our everyday life. Think about all the other tablets that are now being sold.

Five years ago when we were looking at schools for our children we knew we wanted technology at the school.  We never dreamed there would be a device that would be handheld and have a touchscreen our child would use to take tests or do homework.  Now here it is.

What is my point?  If we didn’t know about the iPad; five years ago, what do you think the next five years will bring?

How do we prepare our schools, our teachers and our students for technology that we don’t even know about yet?  In five years will the iPad be obsolete?  Will Apple or Google or a couple of Harvard students come up with something totally new and different?