A good reason to give students iPads?

Nagel, D. (2010) IIT rolling out iPads to incoming class Campus Technology, May 18

The Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago is giving its first year (all graduate) intake iPads, mainly because they will be designing apps to support learning, and to develop other applications of the iPad. I wonder though if they will have any educational input or will it all be engineers’ ideas of what education is all about?

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