Computers, including the iPad, are a means to an end. They only replace the item on which we compute and or write, they do not replace the ability to do either.
From my point of view, learning comes in large part from the teacher, parents and grandparents. It is with the home front that the iPad sits in the most important hands. It provides the medium to help make the complex understandable.
In truth, is places more pressure on the parent to get back in the game of helping educate their child.
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, hugpug@... wrote:
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> It seems like they don't teach math any more because no one can do any math
> in their head on even on paper. It seems like everyone need a
> calculator. Some people have a hard time even counting change in their hand. If
> this is the way things are going than people are not getting smarter at all.
> A person should also be able to write more than just their name. I do
> not find it a "Good Thing" when people seem to be going down hill with
> writing or simple math.
>
> Carol
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