52 | INDUSTRY | TABLE T F EATUR E
Schools’ IT – peer pressure, pester power,
BY SIMON HARBRIDGE, CEO OF STONE GROUP
Simon Harbridge
DO YOU KNOW WHAT devices you are going to buy for your school, or encourage your school to buy? If you’re like a lot of our customers, you’ve had in your mind what you want before you started to shop around. And it’s probably iPads. Kids want them. Parents want
them. They are a top-class pester power device and always top of the
Christmas/birthday lists. If your school has a BYOD device policy, you might already have a lot in school. However, I hope that you may already have seen that there is so much more to providing effective digital learning opportunities than turning to an estate of just one type of ‘most wanted’ device. We can, and frequently do, provide iPads and other devices to our customers and they have fantastic benefits. But, sometimes, they might
not be right for your teaching methodology or the subjects on your curriculum. Intuitive, lightweight and capable though they can be, they are not designed specifically for education. Devices that are specifically
designed for education, or for young people, display a myriad of innovations that pay dividends when it comes to economical and pedagogical value. They are tougher, more suited to smaller hands and fingers, and
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