Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Advantages include ability to better gear course material to each individual student as well as up-to-date material; outcome data scarce.
Teachers and administrators from East Greenwich High School gave a lengthy presentation to the School Committee Tuesday night about the benefits of providing every student at the school with their own iPad. The only catch? It won't come cheap. According to Supt. Victor Mercurio, the total cost of the one-time purchase of iPads for the entire school would be $550,750 – including the iPads themselves, protective casing, and professional development for teachers. In addition, Mercurio said, the district would want to add one full-time and one half-time staff member to support the endeavor, at a total cost of about $100,000. That may or may not be temporary, he said. Each student would "own" their iPad, so new purchases for incoming …
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
A story in RI Future compares EGSD's investigation into getting iPads for all high schoolers with Central Falls' textbook deficit.
Calling it "another sign of the increasing education disparity between Rhode Island’s affluent suburban towns and its economically challenged inner cities," RI Future, a progressive local website, ran a story Tuesday noting that while the EG School Committee is exploring the idea of outfitting every high school student with an iPad, Central Falls doesn't have enough textbooks to go around. Central Falls Supt. Fran Gallo says in the story students will sometimes share the same text books and teachers "will stagger homework assignments so that each class can take the textbooks home at different times during the semester." “I don’t disagree with you that there should be a better statewide technology funding program," EG School Committee …
Monday, May 21, 2012
School Committee hears presentation outlining how iPads could replace textbooks.
Are textbooks irrelevant? To hear science teacher Nicholas Rath tell it, they are outdated practically before they even reach the hands of the students they mean to serve. That's why last year Rath applied for — and received — a grant for 45 iPads so that his students could access the most up-to-date information. School Committee members were each given an iPad for part of last Tuesday's meeting to get a sense of what living digitally could mean. The demonstration included words within the text where definitions would be available with a simple click. Note taking could be done right there too. Most significantly, teachers and students could essentially create their own textbooks. Students would not only be freed of some organizational …
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
A team from EGSD traveled to Burlington, Mass., to examine the 1:1 iPad program the school launched this year.
The East Greenwich School Department, looking into the possibility of equipping students with iPads instead of textbooks, last week visited Burlington High School in Massachusetts to see how such a program worked there. Supt. Victor Mercurio gathered a team from East Greenwich to meet with people from Burlington High School to tour their classrooms and get information. The EG team included Mercurio, Paula Dillon (asst. supt), Michael Podraza (HS principal), Alexis Meyer (Cole principal), Karen Izzo (English department chair), Nick Rath (science department chair), Donna Hayes (Frenchtown library media specialist), Brian Schaefer (tech specialist), Andy Mello (tech specialist), and David Green (School Committee member). “We were looking at…
Renu Englehart
8:33 am on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
We are big fans in this house of the Google Nexus tablet, brand new half the cost of the Ipad. Further I'd like to see some consideration for open source software. I would think one of the biggest things is licensing software for so many tablets, I use Open Office and LibreOffice with rarely a problem. To piggyback on Eric's comment, Google Drive at least lets kids keep their work on the cloud as… more ›