For us as a class we were so excited to receive the ipads, the class enthusiastically turned on ipads, gingerly touching the screen and orientating the view to suit their learning style when almost too soon frustration and despair was evident when everyone tried to connect to our wireless network. During the year the class had struggled and overcome difficulties connecting using macbooks, but we realized that the ipads would be challenging, no sooner had we logged in then we were "booted" off the network. To access apps that required a network connection took an enormous amount of time, as each log in required entering a user name and password to our network.
With encouragement the students then began to explore "offline apps" such as Boggle and Scrabble quickly organizing player groups; math games and science apps. In the end a successful day.
Note to oneself ; Contact the tech department re network settings for ipads...
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