Could iPads replace text books for the Huron School District? It’s one of many facets brought before the Huron School District Tuesday night as High School Principal Demi Moon presented information from an Apple Workshop she and three others attended recently in Chicago. The start-up cost for getting the nearly 700 iPads for high school students is around 480-thousand dollars. Moon used most if not all of her capital outlay funding to purchase i Pads for high school faculty this year. The teachers, in turn, are encouraging students to bring their personal i Pads, as they experiment with using the devices. Technology Director Roger Ahlers told the School Board the iPads will save the district on repair costs due to their durability. While the School Board has not made any official approval of moving forward with the iPad initiative, board member John Halbkat told Moon he thinks the move towards the iPads has already been made…
Moon says she believes the iPad is the best choice for creating a one-on-one learning environment in the face of ever-changing technology…
Representatives from Aberdeen and Brookings joined the Huron group and a school in North Dakota in learning more about using iPads in educational settings in Illinois. Moon says one idea in using the iPad is to join Aberdeen and Brookings in writing future text books on the iPads that would conform to the approaching Common Core standards schools will be required to adhere to. The savings in text book purchases could range between 18 and 20-thousand dollars for the Huron School District.