An Apple A Day For The Teacher -- August 16, 2020

Anyone have any doubts about Apple?

Note this "urgent" update from the school that Sophia will be "attending" tomorrow.

We are so excited to have your child in First Grade at O.C. Taylor this year! 

The school day begins at 7:40 each morning. 

We encourage your child to use the time from 7:40-8:00 a.m. to prepare for the school day by locating the Learning Toolkit and folder that was given at the Meet/See the Teacher Drive Thru. 

This is also a great time to unplug the school iPad from the charger and get it ready to join Webex. 

All First Graders and First Grade Teachers will meet at 8:00 a.m. on Webex for the first day of school on Monday, August 17. If you encounter any technical difficulties when logging in on Monday morning, please call the GCISD help desk at: 817-251-5629. If your child has forgotten their username and password, please contact the GCISD help desk. We do not have a list of their usernames/passwords.

Wow, Sophia with her own username and password. Awesome.

But look at that in bold: I don't know the details but it certainly sounds as if students were issued an iPad. 

And, if so, this is happening all across the country. 

On another note. Sophia has been attending Tutor Time / Montessori for the past couple of years. The mobile device they use at Tutor Time / Montessori? The Apple iPad. 

They have a bank of iPads in Sophia's classroom. My hunch is that they will be doubling the size of that iPad bank by the end of the year. I assume Facebook, Amazon, YouTube are blocked. Not sure about Google and/or Yahoo.

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Texas Wildflowers

-- by Sophia; August 15, 2020
-- age six years and 1.5 months