iManipulate Children.
I don’t know what they’re doing in other countries, but in Australia schools have an opportunity to get ipads for all of the teachers on their staff for a year. The idea is they review how helpful they are for the teachers. At the end of the year if they liked them the teachers can buy theirs for a price that’s way below retail. Great idea right? The teachers don’t even need to bring them into school, they can just use them at home. And of course they don’t need to participate if they don’t wish to.
But nevertheless, every kid I talk to under the age of eighteen refers to ipads frequently as the useful things that most of their teachers use. Oh yeah, Mrs. Willis has one of those. She uses hers for this and that. Oh in my class we use the ipad for that. You can’t talk to a kid about their multiplication tables without them explaining an app to you.
Isn’t that terrifying? I’m reminded of a scene of the future from the ‘Lisa’s Wedding’ episode of the Simpsons;
Troy McClure: [on TV] Now turn to the next problem. If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you? You, the redhead in the Chicago school system?
Girl: Pepsi?
Troy McClure: Partial credit!
Good times.
