- Indianapolis Public Schools are augmenting their curricula to include iPads for students and teachers thanks to technology grants which have placed over 2,500 iPads in schools.
- Cathedral High School, after upgrading the school’s wireless networks, required each of its 900 underclassmen to purchase an iPad to lead their cross-curricular program on Internet decorum, and Park Tudor School has even purchased Apple’s tablet for half of its Kindergarten class.
- Rolly Landeros, chief information officer at Cathedral, commented on positive student-teacher collaboration as a result of the new technology, saying, "instead of teachers being afraid to ask for help, we now have students helping teachers be successful in the classroom."
From the article:
Indianapolis Public Schools started adopting iPads when they first appeared in April 2010, said Dexter Suggs, the chief information officer of Indianapolis Public Schools. Teacher training with the tablets started weeks after the first iPads rolled off the assembly line, and tablets were in students' hands the next fall. …