By Jennifer Moody, Albany Democrat-Herald
School districts across the nation are studying the feasibility of providing laptops, iPads, Kindles or other mobile technology to their students as part of their approach to 21st-century education. In February, Apple reported having sold more than 4.5 million iPads to education facilities throughout the United States, and by June, had sold some 10 million to education institutions worldwide. In spite of problems with hacking by students, the nation’s second-largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, is still committed to providing iPads to all students at its 47 schools. Locally, the Corvallis School District provided mini or standard iPads this fall to every student at Mountain View Elementary School, along with devices for all the students in the English-only classes at the Lincoln and Garfield dual immersion schools. Students in the college-preparatory classes known as AVID at Corvallis and Crescent Valley high schools also have iPads.
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