[scitobor 617]

I live in a county where every high school and middle school student is issued an Apple iBook. About 24,000 iBooks are in service. We are now in to the fourth year of this program and now more than ever, I'm sad to say that I think the investment was a waste of money. I've seen few students actually use their iBooks as little more than $1000 Media players or coasters. Teachers have become aware of the abuses of the iBooks and now rarly use them in class activeties. With that said I believe that technology in my county will decrease and eventually disapear because of student abuses of the iBooks. I believe that in the next few years the school board will find a happy medium of iBook usage that will create more of a place for the iBooks as more of a learning tool for a greater percentage of the students and teachers involved.

Remember, just because technoloy is present in the classroom does not mean it will be a good learning tool compared to a good old fashoined book.