Gee, hasn't technology changed the classroom "quite a bit" for us here at NU? With the addition of all these crazy new "technologies" we have opened up thousands of new opportunities!
In math, instead of paper (you remember that old stuff, right?), we now write on our iPads! The application called "Pages" allows us to totally type stuff down right there in the classroom! Gee whiz! Of course, typing on the iPad is extremely cumbersome and unless you go out and spend 60 bucks on an external keyboard you will make tons of spelling mistakes...and sure, it may be almost impossible to adeptly switch between the three different keyboards needed to type out numbers and such, but heck! Aren't iPads exciting?
In chemistry, we use the iPads to add, subtract, divide, and multiply numbers as well as make graphs and tables! You might remember an old, old, old piece of tech that did all that, called a "calculator" and you may recall it being much easier to add in data and such, but hey! Aren't iPads awesome?
So really, people have got by at school for hundreds of years without technology. So yeah. But aren't iPads...tantalizing!?
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