Students get iPads as school shifts to cloud-based learning
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Ulidia Integrated College says the initiative will help support studies both at home and school.
Principal Michael Houston said: “We are committed to our sixth form students and determined to provide them with a positive sixth form experience which they can use as a springboard to a successful university education or career.”
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Hide AdThe iPads will sit alongside the traditional textbooks with the aim of making study time more efficient, autonomous and engaging.
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Dominic Barnard, Head of ICT at Ulidia Integrated College said: “The iPads will dramatically change the way our sixth formers work and will enable our teachers to create a collaborative, dynamic, creative and contemporary education experience for our learners. I am proud that our sixth form are at the cutting edge of technology and the devices will complement our whole-school shift to cloud-based learning.”
Coupled with the iPad provision for sixth form, we now have 2 mobile iPad classrooms, Apple TV in every classroom for wireless streaming and each teacher has been furnished with an iPad and training to teach from.”