iBooks in classroom

Administrators are that put iBooks in the hands of sixth-graders for a year. The program will continue into the next two years and could expand to all sixth-graders in the Vestavia Hills school system. There are currently 360 students enrolled. Students seemed less distracted and got more work done on time, and there were fewer disciplinary problems, teachers say. Pat Bean, a sixth-grade teacher at Cahaba Heights, said students were more in tune when following her on an electronic version of the textbook. They also treated the laptops with more respect than they did textbooks, she said. "The iBook makes it cool," said student Blake Ange. "It makes it all cool." Students like Blake who are going into the seventh grade next year will no longer have iBooks to use. "On paper, it can be such a hassle," he said.

by MacNN Staff