Managing A Classroom Set of iPads

 In the article, Managing a classroom set of iPads, the author, a teacher, explains the basic process she used when introducing iPads into her classroom. She covers a few different issues from student use management, to setting up the iPads, to storage and maintenance. IN Students management she mainly just addresses that students should be assigned a specific iPad that they use all the time, and they should take a certain amount of ownership of it such as polishing the screen. She also addresses how she will teach students who may not familiar with iPads how to use them. She also addressed setting up the iPads, she explained hw she did it personally, however schools may have policies already set in place to setting up the iPads. She did mention that all of the iPads needed updates, which took a while to do, as well as installing the apps on all the iPads. She also mentions the need to come up with a system to keep the apps updated. Finally, the teacher addressed the issue of storage, She stressed the fact that the iPads should be stored in a cabinet that could be locked, and where the iPads could charge. Se even provided a picture of the storage cabinet that she has in her classroom.

As a future teacher I love the idea of using technology like the iPad in my classroom, however I had never thought about what it would take to set up these iPads and maintain them. It was nice to read an article written by someone who had went through the process, so now I have a better idea of what it will take to get iPads set up in my classroom if they are not already. I also got some great ideas from this article for how to have students share the iPads and not give out personal information. One of things that I like that this teacher did was, instead of having the students setting up their own email addresses on the iPads, which is a bad idea with multiple students using the same one, she instead gave each iPad its own email address that would be used for in class purposes only. I really like that idea.

Over all I thought this was a really good article, and I agree with a lot of the things the teacher said, such as the need for a lockable storage, and the various things that should be invested in to maintain the iPads if and when possible.