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  Case: Ipad reading controversies
As part of a grant your school has given each student an Ipad to use in the classroom, you find that many of your students are reading books using the Amazon Kindle rental program. This is great except some of these books are not quite school appropriate in content. This includes biographies on some big music stars that hold unsavory content, what do you do or not do about this situation?
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
I think that this was a great grant and that students love technology so using apps such as the kindle app is great. What I find hard to believe is that we are limiting what our students are reading. I do think that there are school appropriate books and ones that are not but these students are reading biographies on actual people. They are learning life lessons whether they know it or not. As a teacher we need to use this as a lesson. Should be not teacher people about Van Gogh because he was in all reality was a nut case but his art is so amazing. This is true for the famous people today. There are life lessons to be taught here. I think as a teacher we should encourage reading no matter what.