It’s literacy center time in Mary Sires’ first-grade class, and students don’t even look up when visitors enter the room.
Students are absorbed in the day’s activities, which include using iPads to write and draw comic strips and reading books they’ve written on the small, tablet computers.
This technology has seized the attention of Sires’ students, roping them into lessons every day. It’s been instrumental in helping Sires give both her high achievers and stragglers the attention they need, and she uses the device as much as she can.
Sheesh — and with our budget crisis, we can’t even afford teachers.