I have them with me everywhere I go (I can access books from my iPad or iPhone), I actually read them. Whether I am stuck in traffic or killing time before an appointment, any unexpected free time can now be used to catch up on homework. Granted, using an iPad in grad school is a lot different than in a 6th grade classroom, but I am in favor of technology in the classroom at any age. The children of today have grown up in front of the television and video games, it seems almost ridiculous to expect a traditional approach to hold their attention. Introducing high tech aids into the classroom only makes sense. Its got to be difficult to concentrate on your teacher’s boring, black and white, PowerPoint based lecture when minutes before class you were watching an HD video on YouTube, playing AngryBirds on your phone in one hand and playing Wii tennis in the other. Okay, so that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but still. Technology has changed the way we live and work, and school is meant to prepare us to function productively in the world. So it seems to me that, by necessity, technology should be infiltrating our classrooms at least as fast as it is changing our lives.