A top performing school ditches digital textbooks, claiming kids learn better the old fashioned way
By Sara Burrows
A prestigious school in Australia is doing away with iPads five years after purchasing them for its students. Kids comprehend and retain more, when they read from “good old-fashioned” paper textbooks, the private school’s principal says.
IPad students using them to read their e-textbooks also served as windows to worlds of distraction, he claims.
“They had messages popping up and all sorts of other alerts,” Reddam House principal Dave Pitcairn told The Sydney Morning Herald.
“Also, kids being kids, they could jump between screens quite easily, so would look awfully busy and not be busy at all.”
It’s not only principals and parents applauding the move back to hard-copy textbooks – students prefer them too.
As part of a 5-year trial, the school had given 1st through 10th graders iPads, but reverted back to paper textbooks in 11th and 12th grade.
After have experienced both, most high school students preferred paper over electronic textbooks […]
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As an educator myself, I’m doing a little happy dance in my seat. Unless you’ve got thousands of blockers and controls on those stinking iPads, you’re not gonna get rid of the distractions. Hell, kids can find a way around a control mechanism as soon as you put it in place.
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Thanks for commenting, TheChattyIntrovert. I can imagine this is a really difficult period to be an educator. I don’t envy you.
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