Report: Some students spending 75% of school day on iPads

Eagnews.org Students at Jackson Avenue School in Mineola, New York now learn the vast majority of their lesson on iPads. The Hechinger Report featured about two dozen third-graders in teacher Morgan Mercaldi’s class that use iPads for about 75 percent of their school day as part of a district-wide iPads-for-all initiative. All 417 district students in grades three through nine are issued an assigned device and spend their day learning through education apps like eSpark, Edmodo and MobyMax. The effort, now in its fifth year, has helped to keep kids engaged and provide teachers with regular student progress toward meeting national Common Core standards, the news site reports. Mercaldi said she initially limited students’ use of the devices, but is now all in. “Putting them away serves no purpose,” she said. “We use them constantly.” Students still use some traditional school supplies, however...