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Monday, July 23, 2012

Student to start taking tablets… to lessons by Bongekile Macupe

"Could iPads in schools end textbook dramas?
This is the debate raging in education circles as technology enters the classrooms and universities prepare to enrol the first batch of techno-savvy “Born-frees” – people born after 1994 – next year." summarizes Bongekile Macupe.   

Photo: Independent Online

And parents must prepare to fork out for their kids to benefit from the iPad revolution in class. How this cost will be added to tuition and other fees remains to be seen.
Some private schools have already jumped on the technology bandwagon and integrated iPads into their teaching.

But while some pupils and teachers look forward to this brave new world in schools, some experts say SA is not ready for the technological overhaul of the education system, and that it may take a long time before it is fully implemented.
One of them is education specialist Michael Rice, who said teachers were indispensable, adding: “If the teacher is useless, the technology will be useless.”