More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com

As students use more technology and devices, what is the impact on learning and education? An interesting question, with significant implications. As long as engineers somewhere produce the apps, should the rest of the citizenry worry about getting an education or learn any skills? Just downloading an app and finishing a task might be the answer...

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com: "A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.

As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School on Long Island handed out 47 iPads on Dec. 20 to the students and teachers in two humanities classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students."