[LINK] Apple iPads for Victorian School Students

[Ivan Trundle]

On 02/06/2010, at 5:16 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> The whole "educational technology" debate, if ever it had genuine pedagogical value, has been hijacked

I'm with you 100% on this one, Richard. 

A sensible educational technology middle ground would make the technology recede into the background, and become as reliable and innocent a tool as the spanner in the industrial arts workshop, or the slide rule in the maths department (or whatever they use these days).

And I sincerely believe that the iPad (and what it represents) is a genuinely useful step in the right direction. It's just a shame that it has an Apple logo on it.

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