How cool would it be to go to school and do all your note taking and be taught class lessons on an iPad? Well, before they’re even released in Canada, students at Monte Vista Christian School are learning their studies through the Apple iPad.

According to an article in the Toronto Star one teacher told the paper “They provide new access to photos, videos, daily newspapers and resource material that enhance the curriculum.”

What’s interesting about this is that the iPads are not just for etextbook resources, a slew of apps have been created to help students with their learning and note taking. For example, say a student misses a sentence while the teacher is lecturing, well there’s an app that can record the whole lesson so the student can listen to it at home later. There’s also apps for students to check their answers immediately after answering a question on a pop quiz and say the student wanted the graph that the teacher just wrote on the board…no problem.

Sounds like a pretty sweet learning tool to me. I wonder if the excitement for the new “learning resources” at Monte Vista was similar to when my grade 3 French class got a group cassette player that let us play our French vocab lessons…“Je suis…alle…a…la…bib.lio.theque.”

The full article on the school can be found here.