<p>My school recently issued a letter informing parents that all students will be required to purchase ipads for use in the 2014-2015 school year. I consider myself to be technologically proficient, but I'm unsure as to how I will successfully use an ipad in the classroom. My question is for any fellow students with experience in this area: How should I balance the ipad and conventional school supplies to learn as best I can. Also, do you have any general advice?</p>
<p>If they’re requiring people to buy them, I assume they already have some use in mind.</p>
<p>I would prefer a computer to an ipad. I have seen people use ipads in the classroom and they work fine, the issue with them is that they can’t run Adobe.</p>
<p>I agree with @halcyonheather If the school is requiring them, there is a plan as to how they will be used and will explain it to you.</p>
<p>My school piloted this in a few courses a couple of years ago, and it went fairly smoothly.</p>
<p>Buy a keyboard and download pages </p>
<p>Just this past year, my school transitioned to iPads. I personally used both the iPad and my school supplies. For my French, Math, and Chemistry classes, I preferred taking notes in notebooks and did my Math assignments in my notebook, but my French and Chemistry homework were usually done on the iPad because I needed the Internet. I primarily do my English and History stuff on the iPad because we usually downloaded worksheets and other stuff from the iPad into Notability, which is the note-taking app that my school downloaded for everyone. This is just my experience. For each trimester, I always ended up with 1 B plus or minus, and the rest of my grades were either As or A-minuses for my final grades.
So to sum it up, iPad for worksheets if it’s usually downloadable, and notebooks for notes. I’d recommend keeping most of your Math and Science stuff on paper than the iPad.</p>