CNN Money reported that the New York City schools are not allowing iPads and similar devices on to their network. Apparently, "the system" cannot handle the amount of network traffic that has accompanied the arrival of the mobile devices that have been added to the network recently.
This seems more evidence that educators have been very concerned with the problem of making sure everyone had a computer... and we completely missed the trend that everyone was getting mobile devices and now we are faced with the problem of everyone having devices and not knowing what to do!
This really makes me think that the principal whose meeting I observed last week who said, "we need to get our teachers to commit to doing one lesson per month with computers" is completely out of touch with reality and has little business running (or trying to run) a school in the 21st century.
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