Easton School Officials Impressed with IPad Pilot Program

School Officials heard from teachers who have been using ipads in the classroom as part of a pilot program.

When the Easton School Committee saw what ipads could do for Easton students last week, they were impressed. Or, as school committee member Caroline O'Neill put it, she was "blown away." "The way that you have each found your own path in using these wonderful tools with the kids really blows me away," she said. "Everyone was really different but equally creative and equally imaginative. It was just wonderful." Teachers from Easton's Technology Advisory Group, or "TAG", presented to the school committee last Thursday what they have done in the first half of the year as part of the ipad pilot program. Presenters included teachers from the high school, middle school and elementary school levels, as well as specialists and therapists from …

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Easton School Committee Discusses IPad Pilot Progam

A technology advisory group would oversee technology usefulness in schools

Easton Public School offiicals are looking to see how effective iPads could be in classroom learning. The Easton School Committee is discussing a pilot program that would test the devices' usefulness. "The fear is that we don’t want to purchase a number of iPads to go out to teachers and for it to be a toy and not enriching the students' learning," Easton Public Schools System Technician Peter Twiraga told the Easton School Committee during a workshop Friday afternoon. "Really what we wanted to do is establish this pilot program and have backup for it. We want to have them provide the lessons they’re going to be doing with the iPad and show how they’ve done it without the iPad in the past, and compare it to iPad usage." Twiraga and …

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Question of the Day: Steve Jobs

What was Steve Jobs' greatest achievement?

We'll be asking Easton Patch readers a different question every weekday. Questions could range from local decisions made by officials, to state issues, to national politics and entertainment. Whatever it is, we want to know what EASTON thinks! Yesterday, the world learned the sad news that Steve Jobs, visionary behind Apple, died at 56 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs' accomplishments are many - from the apple computer, to the ipod, the iphone and the ipad. But what was his most important accomplishment? What was Steve Jobs' greatest achievement?

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Bob Havey

11:18 am on Monday, October 10, 2011

Similarto the gadget you're using to trash him?   more ›