Tapping technology – High school students pilot iPads

Debra Park asked her students which reading strategies they planned to use during quiet reading time.

Her class had brainstormed ideas and methods for how to improve reading and vocabulary the week before. Students wrote their conclusions on large white marker boards for everyone to reference.

The boards were wiped clean, but the students weren’t at a loss. Each student held an iPad, and with a few taps and drags of the finger, recovered notes from the previous day.

Before writing their thoughts on a board, students had researched reading strategies online and talked about them as a class. They didn’t get their information from a book but from the Internet, accessed with sleek new iPads and filtered with Park’s help.

By JACKIE BORCHARDT

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