iPads are a "huge distraction" Ofsted claims

[Nixon77]

Schools are increasingly using mobile gadgets such as iPads in lessons

Nearly a third of secondaries now allow pupils to use them in classrooms

But Ofsted warned yesterday that they can distract children from learning

It said the devices can be disruptive and called on heads to take hard line

 

‘It is up to schools to decide whether they have rules about personal devices, but Ofsted would be supportive of heads who took tough action to make the learning environment better for children,’ the spokesman told the Times Educational Supplement.

 

Mr Bennett said: ‘I have never said that I wanted to ban iPads from the classroom, but I do think teachers need to be really careful about why they are using them.

 

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I would tend to agree. I have seen so many teachers passing students off and telling them to use iPads or laptops, its lazy learning.

Edited December 12, 2015 by Nixon77

[CyberNerd]

The problem is more to do with the teaching, not the technology.

We can provide the systems/infrastructure but if the teachers can't do their part then it's going to be a distraction no matter whether it's paper or tablets.

 

Only the daily mail could come up with such a warped opinion given the actual quotes used in the article.

[XiJ]

The problem is more to do with the teaching, not the technology.

We can provide the systems/infrastructure but if the teachers can't do their part then it's going to be a distraction no matter whether it's paper or tablets.

 

Only the daily mail could come up with such a warped opinion given the actual quotes used in the article.

 

This entirely.

 

We work with a primary that is heavily into technology to *aid* learning. Even to to the point that the kids will take the iPad / laptop for a couple of days and do some work. But the teaching is of such standard that the results are brilliant.

 

Just the other week a couple of Y6 pupils came to show me a game they'd made on the iPad. It was very good!

[southhamster]

Agreed. It's all about management.

This is where learn pads can be good. The teacher can freeze or blank the screens and choose which apps or websites appear.

I don't know how easy

/good ipads are to control in this way but surely that is a large part of it. I've seen some really successful Lear pad lessons but they do need to be planned in advance which doesn't seem to be the way that some teachers work...

[Roberto]

Of course the daily fail are misrepresenting the meat of the comments they're quoting, that's how you know the article is a genuine daily fail article.

 

But there are also examples on edugeek going back years (well before ipads were the current 'shiny') of organisations investing in that year's "shiny-du-jour" under the assumption that somehow something magical will happen and the students will find themselves better educated simply by being in the same room as the 'shiny' with no real thought of how to integrate this new toy into teaching and learning properly.

[rich_tech]

You know its great when its in the DM lol, its Britains rabid "I told you so/were all going to die/everything causes cancer" go to paper.

 

I don't know about the distraction element in all honesty, I don't teach with them, though they seem to be responded too well here from what I understand of their use and they are quite popular in their booking out for in-class research, from a management point of view though, their not great and still not able to be locked down quite enough, despite AC2 being released and improving it in some ways and making it worse in others, it still hasn't gone quite far enough.