<p>I'm a student member of the district school board. All 4 four student members get an iPad for the year for reading meeting agendas, taking notes, etc. We're also functioning as a trial to see if iPads should be introduced into classrooms. They said we can use it for recreational purposes.</p>
<p>But in light of other schools monitoring equipment in the past, I'm kinda wondering if my district is. I don't plan on really doing anything bad, but It'd be good to know some boundaries. Do you think the district would be spying on us? Is there anyway to tell? (since there would be some type of spyware)</p>
<p>Just be Mindful. If you think about it, the NSA monitors all call across the USA. You school could be doing the same in monitoring your iPad. Why would they not? There gaving you a 500+ dollar tablet and there be cautious. (lucky your school gaves iPad my school uses old dell, but I have a IPad :):))</p>
<p>First i’m going to be a smart-aleck and say “well, duh, we’re not your district, how would we know?”</p>
<p>If they said it’s for recreational use, then you can play games on it. But my district started iPads for the underclassmen last year, and they watch the things like hawks. Actually, our administrator watches everything we do like a hawk. It’s a little creepy, actually.</p>
<p>If they are using it as a test, they want to know how students are likely to use them in the classroom. They are having the 4 students reps use them because they want data - they don’t want you to avoid using them.</p>
<p>If they monitor, it would most likely be on the server end - where they monitor the traffic through the school networks. As long as you are using them for educational purposes while you’re in school, I doubt they would take any issue with you using them for personal purposes, whatever those are, when you’re not in school, as long as they are not being used for illegal purposes.</p>
<p>They want to know if an iPad serves an educational purpose - what can you use it for that might enhance your classroom experience? They can’t get to an answer without allowing someone to use an iPad in school, but they don’t want to open it up to just anyone yet - smart move on their part.</p>
<p>Schools are starting to understand the role of technology in students’ lives. I know of many schools that ban cell phones - by official policy (often set at the school board level) says students may not bring them to school. But that flies in the face of student needs before and after school. As a result, many school principals defy school board policy out of necessity, and institute their own policies - students may bring the cell phone to school, but it must turned off and put away during school.</p>
<p>As long as you are not planning to use the iPad inappropriately, I wouldn’t worry.</p>
<p>^^^I have the option to use them in school (they programmed it with the Wifi password for school.) I understand that they view all traffic on the school wifi. What I mean though is, are they going to be able to monitor it while I use it at home? Like I said not planning anything bad, just not wanting them to think that I’m using their iPad to play temple run and use facebook all day.</p>
<p>And I really don’t know, OP, because I don’t have much experience in this department, but I don’t think they’d monitor the iPad while you’re at home. I didn’t think that would be of any use to them. They probably monitor them only at school. But then again, I really have no idea, only an avid computer tinkerer could tell you if you could monitor an iPad out of school.</p>
<p>In fact, I only replied to this thread to brag about my Temple Run score. But then I thought it’d be rude if I didn’t at least try to help you with your problem…</p>