Even as user-friendly as Apple designed them, there are still people who don?t know their way around an iPad.
Some of those people are parents of students at Episcopal School of Jacksonville. To help parents brush up on technology skills, the private school?s technology staff is hosting iPad training camps.
Pat Andrews, the school?s senior technology adviser, said they have held 19 sessions and there are recurring themes in every one.
?The number one question is what happens if it?s stolen or dropped,? Andrews said. ?Another question they ask is how to protect their children from what?s on the Internet.?
Episcopal parent Ingrid McCawley wanted to know how buying the device would help her seventh-grader learn.
During a two-hour session Monday, Episcopal?s technology director George Terre showed McCawley and a dozen parents an app called Mobicip.
Mobicip is a Web browser that allows parents to block certain websites and material from students. Once downloaded, the app takes away Safari and any other Web browsers the iPad may hold, forcing students to only use Mobicip. Terre showed parents how to download the app and hide the iTunes store from the device so kids won?t purchase content.
When school starts this fall, Episcopal students in sixth through ninth grade must have iPads for class. The school gave iPads to teachers this past school year and the faculty learned how to use the device for classroom lessons.
At least one other local private school ? Jacksonville Country Day ? has given iPads to students in recent years. Country Day has not provided accompanying training for parents, however.
Terre said it?s important that parents learn the iPad tricks because kids learn the instructions almost instinctively.
?An hour after I give these to students, they know more than I do,? joked Terre, a 20-year technology veteran.
During Monday?s training session, Terre also showed parents the Find My iPad app, which forces the device to make a loud noise if misplaced or lock itself down if stolen.
After the session, McCawley said she could see how the iPad helps with learning, especially with the digital textbooks and using the camera.
?Even the free apps, they could use for quizzes [and] studying on trips,? she said. ?Learning on it is fun.?
McCawley said she doesn?t have an iPad and likely will only buy one for her teen. But after the training session, she said ?it?s totally worth it.?
?I?m a novice when it comes to this tech stuff,? she admitted. ?Some people use it all the time; I rarely do, so this was great for me.?
Khristopher J. Brooks: (904) 359-4104
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