We are approaching the era where students don’t have to carry stacks of thick heavy books to school anymore. Everything will be digitized and available at the tip of students’ fingers, inside the iPad (or whatever other tablet can stand alongside the iPad in the future). Not wanting to waste any more time, some schools have already adopted the iPad as their learning tool, while students and educators are slowly figuring out the best way to utilize the iPad for education.
Even though everybody has their own preferences of using the iPad in their studies, allow me to share 7 iPad usages to help students excel at school.
Replace Physical Books. This one should be obvious. Other than saving the environment by preserving the trees, there are several advantages to using digital versions of books instead of physical ones. These include being able to put lots of digital books inside your device and taking them everywhere easily, you can quickly search for any information from those books, you can add notes and annotations without damaging the books, and the books will always be in mint condition so you can keep them forever.
There are lots of book readers available for iOS. The one I use is Apple’s iBooks as most of my digital books are in PDF and epub format. Even Ipad Video Lessons are now available for more interactive learning experience.