Sentences with phrase «ipads last school year»

Hundreds of students initially given the iPads last school year found ways to bypass security installations, downloading games and freely surfing the web.

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Last year, my school rolled out iPads for every student, and with the transition to Common Core, it was the perfect time for a massive curriculum shakeup.

Our school is mid-pivot in technology — we're in our second year of a middle school 1:2 iPad program, our first year of having a cart of iPads available for elementary, and our last year of two PC labs for the students to use (next year we'll have only one lab).

Over the last six years schools and districts have spent millions of dollars equipping their students and faculty with iPads and Chromebooks, often in an attempt to create one - to - one classrooms.

As someone who taught middle school math last year for DC Public Schools, I witnessed firsthand how much time was spent on computers and iPads.

Schools got access to multi-user support for the iPad in iOS 9.3, Apple dropped its Apple ID requirement for iPads, a cheaper $ 329 iPad launched last year, and Apple has launched better management tools for the iPad.

That's not surprising given Apple's aggressive push in education — last year, it sold 4.5 million iPads to schools and reported one billion downloads for iTunes U.

Over the last three years, Apple's iPads and Mac notebooks — which accounted for about half of the mobile devices shipped to schools in the United States in 2013 — have steadily lost ground to Chromebooks, inexpensive laptops that run on Google's Chrome operating system and are produced by Samsung, Acer and other computer makers.

In fact, last year, Chromebooks have sold more than iPads in schools, as the former are cheaper and offer a more practical laptop for students.