Chapter 7: There’s an App for that: 50 Ways to use Your iPad: 50 Ways to Use Your iPad

It is commonplace across the United States to see computers in schools (pre-K–12)—a personal computer (PC) on a teacher’s desk, student-use computer stations along a classroom wall, a Mac Lab in an art classroom, mobile wireless laptop carts that teachers can reserve for technology-infused lessons. Some school districts are undertaking one-to-one computer initiatives that provide technology for each student to utilize during the school day and beyond, such as checking out a laptop to each student for the school year in the same way that textbooks are assigned for school and home use. In higher education, computers have become ubiquitous in classrooms, libraries, and student unions. This phenomenon is a simple reflection of society, as evidenced by watching people in a park or in line at a grocery store engaged with their many devices.