There is no doubt that the iPad is an advanced tool for assisting teaching and learning. With the help of modern technology, the teacher and the student can reach more useful and lively resources than textbooks. The class can be more flexible than teaching in an old-fashioned way. However, how much knowledge and skills students will master by the iPads cannot be estimated.
Based on my TESOL background, I still consider that the best way to learn a language should be old-fashioned. Actually, without modern technology in ancient times, our ancestors can acquire foreign languages, and they can even compile dictionaries. So I don't think advanced technology is the primary condition on second language acquisition. In the process of acquiring a language, memorizing and practices should be the most significant elements. Human internal devices can never be replaced by any external tools.
The teachers should control and manage the use of the iPad, and encourage students be more dependent on their own brains than those electronic devices. In my opinion, human beings should be the creators of new technology but not slaves.
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