According to NBC affiliate WCBD News in Charleston, South Carolina, the Drayton Hall elementary School in West Ashley recently integrated iPads into lesson plans for students from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade. The iPads were purchased with a School Improvement Grant and the district's Classroom Modernization Budget.
Integrating classroom technology into lesson plans allows teachers to reach students on more individualized levels, quickly adapting lesson plans to address areas that require more focus. For their part, students who have access to a tablet computer, interactive whiteboard or
DLP projector are more engaged in lessons that they may find tedious when taught via traditional methods.
"I'm very excited. This is a district initiative to explore one to one learning," Drayton Hall principal John Cobb told the source. "We are able to keep kids involved in education. We are able to keep them excited. When you have teachers and students engaged, achievement is going to go up."
Teachers can control what the students do on the iPads by only downloading appropriate apps to the tablet computers, and teachers say that the computer's adaptability allows them to cater to students who learn in different ways. Students at different reading levels, for instance, can all read at the appropriate level simultaneously on the same device.
