Another School Filled with iPads

The first school in Delaware to give their students iPads is the Delmarva Christian High School. The school decided to use iPads in the classroom, as a way to cut back on paper and to make high school more interactive and fun. So far, teachers at Delmarva seem to really like the iPads in the class room and they love that students can get information quickly from their seats. Delmarva has paired up with three other Christian schools using iPads, to share information and work together to learn.

I think that it is great that schools are using iPads in classrooms to save paper and provide the modern conveniences that students and teachers are used to at home. This is the wave of the future and I am glad that schools are finally accepting technology in the classroom

Colleges Can Creep on us?!?

Thanks to the help of the new Student Recruitment Manager, SRM, from TargetX, colleges can now go  and find out what their perspective students are thinking and doing when they post on social networking web sites.
I am not in favor of potential colleges being able to see what I put on the web, but I do think that it is the wave of the future and we should just get used to it. Once something is on the Internet, it is there for ever, for everyone to see and that is a scary thought. For a fear that information may be misconstrued, or misread, I do not want colleges to base their decision on me off of what they see online. I will definitely be more careful and clear about what I post on Facebook and other social networking sites, but if colleges really want to read about me and my opinions, then more power to them, they just have to get by my privacy settings!

A Week in Review and a Vision of Students Today

This past week has given me some great input about the average student today. 

After watching the video, "A Vision of Students Today"our Web 2.0 class began working together to create our own video. Our video is focused on the 21st Century Class Room, and how we all learn with the help of technology these days. The class has done a great job of working together, to create this video. The surveys and research that were conducted gave insight on the negative aspects of technology in the class room, as most of the student body is on Facebook and other social networking sites for most of the day, but the general consensus is that we at Burlington High School really like using iPads, and we are proud to be one of the first active 21st Century Class Rooms, and our video proves this.