Palms In School. Good Or Bad?
from the depends-on-how-you-use-them dept
Schools around the US are disagreeing over the role of PDAs in classrooms. Some schools are banning Palms, saying that kids will just use them to cheat or to play games (or worse that they’ll get stolen). Other schools are encouraging them, or even handing them out to students as a tool to help them learn. What it comes down to (in my mind) is simply how they’re used. If they’re not used well, then it’s a waste. However, they can certainly be helpful learning aids for plenty of students. Just like any technology, the technology itself is neither good nor bad.
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Palms in schools
I think they’ll be like a more versatile TI-83, in school we used to connect these to different devices in physics class and chem class. Well, with a plam, they’d be using it for the same thing, but with a larger variaty of apps avail and a better display, although it could also become a distraction if students have things such as a MP3 Springboard attachment, or even a wireless NIC. As far as cheating, chatting, and games, it’s not like it didn’t happen with regular graphing calculators anyway, plus with TI-89 calculators becomming so popular, kids in highschool can derive and integrate complex equations without even thinking, (i actually favor no calculator exams). I think teachers just don’t fully understand what pdas can do and what they can’t. Soon enough they’ll be commonplace.