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by DonnaR/CA

Feb 18, 2015

I am wondering how many of you work for districts that insist on breathing down your neck about the apps you put on your student iPads/tablets.

Our district has been, up to now, pretty easy. Get parents to donate iTunes gift cards, load up to 5 iPads with a given app, use accordingly.

All of a sudden, they're telling us that the iPads will be wiped clean in June and we must apply for approval to reload each app (different form for each app). If we spent our own money to buy the app or used a parent-donated gift card to buy/upgrade the app, too-bad-so-sad.

Needless to say, I'm upset. I've spent almost $100 in parent gift cards on apps (all of them educationally sound), not to mention hours-upon-hours to do the research to find the apps, download them, and try them to ensure they're good ones.

So I'm doing my research, to see what other districts do. These are school-owned iPads.

Donna

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DonnaR/CA For the record, these 5 iPads in each classroom are rotated among my 26 students. They are never in any child's "possession", only used by them for a 15-20 minute period during either Language groups or Math groups.

I just have very little trust in my district. They are telling us, "Oh, we'll purchase the app for the Distric...See More

Feb 19, 2015

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SuperTeacher I would be very frustrated by this too! I would think the district would at least give you the courtesy of talking to you about which apps you need/want before deleting them.

I do realize that they are the district's property, but good administrators will worth closely with teachers to encourage them to embrace new technology. It seems you...See More

Feb 20, 2015

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kinderesl We have two district apple accounts that can be used to load apps. One is for free apps only. I can load anything (educational of course!) that is free. All paid apps MUST be purchased through the district account with prior approval.

Feb 25, 2015

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K. Fair On 2/25/15, kinderesl wrote: > We have two district apple accounts that can be used to load > apps. One is for free apps only. I can load anything > (educational of course!) that is free. All paid apps MUST be > purchased through the district account with prior approval.

I own an iPad. I was issued one by the county. I have per...See More

Mar 11, 2015

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