The iPad is shaping education as we know it.
Like most of us, I haven`t had an in-person meeting in nearly a year. I haven`t shaken anyone`s hand in that long, either. The ways we communicate and learn, the ways we connect with other people in general, have been so disrupted, so irretrievably altered, that it`s hard to see a way back to pre-Covid times.
In the education space, this disruption almost seems like a fork in the road. Do we continue as we were, or do we try forging a new path that not only leans on technology but sees it as a primary and necessary part of learning? School boards have embraced iPads and Chromebooks as tools in recent years, but some see them as extensions of, not replacements for, existing book-and-pencil taxonomy, an augmentation of an existing practice.
The future of education
Dwayne Matthews doesn`t see it this way. A former teacher at Toronto`s biggest school board, he now positions himself as an advocate and evangelist for technology integration...
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